ABM strategically incorporates activity analysis, activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based budgeting, life cycle and target costing, process value analysis, and value-chain analysis.
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marginal costing is also known as contribution costing. its a costing method that's includes only a variable cost of a product no attempt is made to allocate or appropriate fixed costs to cost centers. the setting of prices is basically based on the variable costs of making a product. if the prices are set above this unit cost then each item sold will make a condition to fixed costs. on the other hand absorption costing or full costing is an approach to the costing of products that allocated all costs of production to cost centers. The aim is to ensure that all business costs are covered.
Yes marginal costing is also sometimes called direct costing.
Zero-based budgeting is a method of budgeting where all the expenses have to be justified for each new period. This method starts with a zero base and all the functions in a company are analyzed for costs and needs.
activity based costing does not promote TQM(total quality management) and continuous improvement but attribute based costing promotes the both.
It is old costing technique & it is replaced by activity based costing
Activity based costing has primary difference of allocation of overheads which are based on activities performed by any department while in traditional costing system overheads are allocated on predetermined rate which may be not very accurate.
False. Activity-based costing is used to allocate indirect cost into direct costs.Regardng direct cost, traditional costing is as appropriate as activity-based costing.
In zero based budgeting all estimates are prepared from start and no previous data is available so all assumptions are made from scratch and all costs relations are made from scratch using standard costing methods.
Answering "Problem relating to the implementation of activity based costing and activity based management system
In traditional costing, overheads are allocated using blanket rate while in activity based costing overheads are allocated by the activities performed.
Activity based costing allocate the overhead expenses based on activities performed and that's why it is an accurate way to allocate overhead expenses while in absorption costing, overheads are allocated based on some ratios or predetermined rate which is not accurate method of allocation of cost.
Activity-based costing is a form of cost refinement, designed to obtain greater accuracy than traditional allocations in cost assignments for product costing and decision-making purposes.
In Activity based costing all overheads are charged to function or department based on activities they perform while in absorption based accounting, overheads are apportioned using some kind of base rate like labor hours or machine hours etc.
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Under absorption costing overheads are allocated to production based on predetermined overhead rates like machine hours, or direct labor hours etc while in direct costing overheads are allocated based on activity performed and relationship with production units.