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Per unit cost in traditional costing method
Under traditional costing method, per unit cost is calculated by adding per unit cost of direct material, labor and
Unit product cost for both the products under traditional costing method.
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Per unit cost in Activity based costing:
Under activity-based costing, per unit cost is calculated by adding per unit cost of direct material, direct labor and overheads. Here, different activities are identified that give rise to indirect cost and total cost of all the activities (total indirect cost) are allocated to products in the ratio in which products use or consume different activities.
To calculate: Per unit cost under activity-based costing method.
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Traditional costing and activity-based costing Both the methods are used in cost accounting to allocate the overheads or indirect cost and to calculate total costs. Traditional costing system uses only one base for such allocation and activity-based costing system uses more than one base based on different activities.
To explain: Which costing system provides more accurate costs.

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