Connect 2-Semester Access Card for Fundamental Accounting Principles
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Author: John Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter C, Problem 7DQ
To determine
Introduction:
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.
To Determine:
Circumstances which specially encourage use of Activity Based Costing
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