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Download Solution PDFFollowing are the steps in the activity-based cost allocation:
a) Identification of the main activities
b) Collection of cost pool
c) Determination of the activity cost drivers
d) Calculation of activity driver rate
e) Charging the cost of activities to products
Select the correct sequence of the above steps:
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- a, b, c, e, d
- a, b, e, d, c
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Option 3 : a, b, c, d, e
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Download Solution PDFLitt in one of his articles commented, “Activity-based costing (ABC) is an accounting technique that utilizes cost attachment rather than cost allocation to determine the actual cost of products and services”.
- The real beauty of an ABC model is that it forces organizations to adopt a cost management paradigm that focuses on understanding their processes.
- Once an organization accepts this paradigm, they soon recognize that their products or services are produced through cross-functional business processes.
- These processes contain a wide variety of activities that not only define the process but also, more importantly, reflect how effectively the process performs.
- It is based on the fact that cost objects consume activities and activities consume resources. It is this consumption of resources that drives costs.
The ABC can be performed by:
- Identifying activities
- Determining the cost for each activity/ Collecting cost pools
- Determining cost drivers (Cost drivers are the factors that affect the cost of an activity, e.g. poor quality)
- Collecting activity data and computing activity rate using activity drivers
- Calculating product cost by charging the cost to products
Thus, option 3 is the correct answer.
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