Fundamental Accounting Principles
Fundamental Accounting Principles
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Author: John J Wild, Ken Shaw Accounting Professor, Barbara Chiappetta Fundamental Accounting Principles
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Manufacturing cost is the total cost of procuring or producing a product. In other words, the manufacturing cost is the cost that an individual or business owner undertakes for the manufacturing of goods.
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Chapter C, Problem 7DQ
To determine

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Activity Based Costing

• Activity Based Costing is a method of cost allocation, whereby costs are assigned to activities performed and cost per unit of activity driver is calculated and assigned to units of activities performed.

• Activity drivers could be cost allocation units such as orders, batches, area occupied etc. Activity based costing favors cost allocation on the actual units of activity carried out as opposed to the standard method of overhead application using a blanket rate.

Cost of Activity = Units of Activity performed x Cost per Activity Driver

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Circumstances which specially encourage use of Activity Based Costing

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