Activity-Based Costing and Cost Interdependencies among Products: The Denim Finishing Company

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Caplan ◽  
Nahum D. Melumad ◽  
Amir Ziv
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Production Line ◽  
New Product ◽  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Full Cost ◽  
Level Information ◽  
The Cost

A fictional example illustrates how interdependencies among products in the production process, and the costs associated with those interdependencies, challenge the ability of cost accounting systems to generate decision-useful product cost information. The cost interdependency in the current example is a production-line change-over cost that is incurred to retool a machine whenever the production process changes from one product to another. Both marginal costing and full cost activity-based costing (ABC) are employed in an attempt to provide decision-relevant product-level information in connection with the decision to add a new product.

scholarly journals The Cost of an Upper Gastroduodenal Endoscopy: An Activity-Based Approach

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 473-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Crott ◽  
Nicholaos Makris ◽  
Alan Barkun ◽  
Carlo Fallone
Keyword(s):  
Medical Procedures ◽  
Biopsy Forceps ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Academic Hospital ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Full Cost ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
The Cost

The cost of medical procedures is often unknown, but is nevertheless crucial for setting reimbursement and health care policies. The cost of an upper gastroduodenal endoscopy was investigated in ambulatory adults in a large academic hospital in the province of Quebec, from the perspective of the hospital.An activity-based costing methodology was used to break down the procedure into a number of priory tasks, to which resources used at the department level (labour, equipment, materials) were allocated. The direct cost of performing an endoscopy ranged from $62 for an unsedated, unbiopsied patient to $89 for a sedated, biopsied patient. Not included in this amount were separate reimbursement fees of $15 for biopsy analysis and the $50 professional fee for the performing physician, which are charged directly to the Ministry of Health.Incorporating overall, general hospital fixed overhead costs raises the cost of the procedure substantially, by $41, as does the use of nonreusable biopsy forceps, which adds about $63 to the total cost of the procedure.Given the high proportion of overall, hospital-wide, overhead costs in the total cost of the procedure, allocation methods of these overhead costs in current hospital accounting systems should be improved to obtain a more precise estimate of the full cost of upper gastroduodenal endoscopy.

A Comparative Analysis of Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Costing Systems

2012 ◽  
pp. 1429-1440
Author(s):  
Khaled Samaha ◽  
Sara Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Corporate Commitment ◽  
Traditional Costing ◽  
Abc Method ◽  
Manufacturing Organization

Today, organizational environments are increasingly characterized by an expanding use of advanced technologies. A company’s management accounting system should capture the underlying technology, be consistent with corporate commitment to total quality and increased automation, and promote its efforts to compete on the basis of cost, quality, and lead time. However, the recent literature reveals that traditional cost accounting systems systematically introduce serious product cost distortions, which lead to inappropriate strategic decisions. Activity-Based Costing (ABC) represents an alternative paradigm that is giving more accurate and traceable cost information. The objective of this case is to illustrate the application of ABC method in a single manufacturing organization operating in the metal industry and to compare the results of ABC with volume based costing (traditional costing) method. The results of the application highlight the weak points of volume based costing which assigns factory overhead costs using direct labor-hours or machine-hours as a cost driver. As a result, volume-based costing under-costs low-volume product (i.e. products requiring fewer direct labor hours in total), while it over-costs high-volume products (i.e. products requiring more direct labor-hours in total), and thus, a product is subsidized at the expense of others. In cost accounting this is called cross-subsidization. However, activity-based costing traces overhead consumption by each product and thus provides a more accurate per-unit overhead cost.

A Comparative Analysis of Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Costing Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Khaled Samaha ◽  
Sara Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Corporate Commitment ◽  
Traditional Costing ◽  
Abc Method ◽  
Manufacturing Organization

Today, organizational environments are increasingly characterized by an expanding use of advanced technologies. A company’s management accounting system should capture the underlying technology, be consistent with corporate commitment to total quality and increased automation, and promote its efforts to compete on the basis of cost, quality, and lead time. However, the recent literature reveals that traditional cost accounting systems systematically introduce serious product cost distortions, which lead to inappropriate strategic decisions. Activity-Based Costing (ABC) represents an alternative paradigm that is giving more accurate and traceable cost information. The objective of this case is to illustrate the application of ABC method in a single manufacturing organization operating in the metal industry and to compare the results of ABC with volume based costing (traditional costing) method. The results of the application highlight the weak points of volume based costing which assigns factory overhead costs using direct labor-hours or machine-hours as a cost driver. As a result, volume-based costing under-costs low-volume product (i.e. products requiring fewer direct labor hours in total), while it over-costs high-volume products (i.e. products requiring more direct labor-hours in total), and thus, a product is subsidized at the expense of others. In cost accounting this is called cross-subsidization. However, activity-based costing traces overhead consumption by each product and thus provides a more accurate per-unit overhead cost.

Cost Knowledge and Cost-Based Judgment Performance

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Dearman ◽  
Michael D. Shields
Keyword(s):  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Performance Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Good Judgment ◽  
Knowledge Content ◽  
Cost Accounting System ◽  
The Cost

This paper reports evidence on how managers' cost knowledge affects their cost-based judgment performance when a volume-based cost accounting system is used and products have diverse resource consumption. The evidence indicates that managers who have activity-based costing (ABC) knowledge content and/or an activity knowledge structure debias the cost information to have relatively good judgment performance. In contrast, managers with only cost-accounting knowledge content have relatively poor judgment performance. The judgment performance model (Libby and Luft 1993) provides the theoretical framework for this paper. Implications of this paper for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals A Typology of Cost Accounting Practices Based on Activity-Based Costing – A Strategic Cost Management Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-184
Author(s):  
Gregory Wegmann ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Management ◽  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Strategic Cost Management ◽  
The Cost

This article examines cost accounting methods containing one or more activity-based costing (ABC) like dimensions. The objective is to analyze cost accounting proposals with, in part, a philosophy reminiscent ABC. The research purposes are to analyze the strategic dimension of the methods described and to build a typology useful for managers. The discussion leads to a four-dimensional typology based on three strategic objectives assigned to the cost accounting systems. The foundation of the research is the Strategic Cost Management Theory from which emerges the ABC philosophy. The methodology applied is an academic and professional literature review. The typology designed shows common points and similarities of the methods observed and their strategic dimensions. Some of the methods studied are more or less useful for practitioners, according to the situation of their companies. Keywords: strategic cost management, activity-based costing, typology

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of the Quality of Performance Using the Cost Accounting Information System in the Control of Quality Costs Study in the General Company for Electrical Industries

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Hanan Abdullah Hassan Al-Amar ◽  
Qasim Ali Omran Al-Bayati ◽  
Huda Jabbar Kadhum Al-Haiyali
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
The Cost

The financial operations which carried out by economic unity are proven treatment and documenting and continuous down to makers decision by relevance objective and time and then to reflect on the decision maker in any center of responsibility. That ’s provided by the system accounting information where the source is the basis for producing important accounting information, And the cost accounting information systems of the most important information systems that deal with data processing and conversion to information of relative importance to the beneficiaries. Which is consist with The objective of the research that emphasize the importance of accounting systems in general and systems cost in particular to achieve the highest c The research has led to a number of results, the most important of which is the difficulty in controlling quality costs as well as the waste of economic resources in the company. The researchers recommended adherence to the technical standards to achieve the quality of performance as well as conducting a thorough examination of samples and focusing on the quality of raw materials and testing before use to reduce the proportion Damage.

Determination of cost accounting objects, calculation and improving the calculation of product cost in agriculture

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-39
Author(s):  
Rolan Arkhipovich Alborov ◽  
Ekaterina Leonidovna Mosunova ◽  
Elena Vyacheslavovna Zakharova ◽  
Gregory Rolanovich Alborov
Keyword(s):  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Management Accounting Systems ◽  
Order Calculation ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
The Cost

The article deals with the problems of calculating the cost of agricultural products in crop and livestock production, associated with the methods of production accounting and management accounting systems for production facilities used in practice by agricultural organizations. Variants of definition (selection) of cost accounting objects, objects of calculation of the first order and objects of calculation of the second order are proposed. Conceptual models for the distribution of costs between the objects of the first-order calculation, the objects of the second-order calculation and the calculation of the cost of the received types of agricultural products have been developed. Using the example of the production of the main herd of dairy cattle, it is shown that the use of old methods of calculating the cost of agricultural products is not consistent, and it is recommended to use more justified methods of calculating the cost of crop and livestock products, recommended in the new editions of the relevant guidelines of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Calculation of Unit Cost School Information System Development using ABC (Activity Based Costing) Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 307-313
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fahson Hakim ◽  
Ahmad Sirojun Nuha ◽  
Widya Aini Lathifah ◽  
M. Ainul Yaqin
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Cost Calculation ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Cost

In developing an information system the school must determine a strategy in its development. Look for managers who are reliable in making decisions that are oriented to reliable development. One of the proper management concepts is cost accuracy. Accuracy of charging costs on cost objects is very important for users of cost information. Beside the accuracy, it is also needed to find out the cost per unit needed in the information system. This is intended to have a price benchmark for the development of information systems in the future. In this study the unit cost calculation uses the ABC (Activity Based Costing) method which emphasizes the cost calculation for the activities involved. The allocation of costs is based on salary data from trusted institutions, namely the Pedoman Standard Minimal 2019 by INKINDO. The results of this study get a total cost value of 18.407.082,00while the cost of each complexity is 5,301.00 with the standard cost of procurement of goods and services issued by the government and several survey institutions.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN TIME-DRIVEN ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING PADA PERHITUNGAN HARGA POKOK PRODUK USAHA JASA UNIXON

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
Astrid Anastasya Jovanka ◽  
L Jade Faliany
Keyword(s):  
Government Regulation ◽  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Time Consumption ◽  
Consumption Ratio ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Research Show

The purpose of this paper is to calculate branding consultant cost using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC). TDABC calculate cost based on activity that is controlled by time. The method that is used in this research is a case study in Unixon, a small business that works in the field of branding, using data from 2016. Interviews were conducted. The cost and activity database was analyzed. The results of this research show that TDABC can be applied in this Company because it qualified the requirements; diversity in product and different time consumption ratio for each product. TDABC provided more accurate cost information by calculating all costs; cost to make and cost to sell. Implementation of TDABC also show time capacity utilization by comparing actual labor hours and work hours that is controlled by government regulation. By understanding this condition, the owner is able to evaluate the amount of job that is done, time consumption, and employee who is involved. To implement TDABC, the Company must consider each steps needed from identifying activity, assign cost to activity, calculate tariff per activity, to calculate cost of product.

scholarly journals Development of Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Management Accounting in the Enterprises of the Service Sphere in the Field of Telecommunication in the Republic of Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 288-293
Author(s):  
E. Shodiev
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Target Costing ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Cost

The article examines the current development of the theoretical and methodological foundations of management accounting at enterprises in the service sector in the field of telecommunications in the Republic of Uzbekistan. In particular, we study theoretical and organizational and methodological provisions for adapting cost accounting tools and calculating the cost of products and services to the organizational and technological features of organizations in the sphere of Internet technologies, as well as in developing a methodology for calculating the cost of products and services goal-costing, target-costing, Kaizen Costing, Activity-Based Costing.

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