Professional Documents
Culture Documents
BASED
COSTING
MUHAMMAD AZEEM
VUGUIDE.TK
ROADMAP OF THE
PRESENTATION
WHAT IS COST?
IMPORTANCE OF TRUE PRODUCT COST
METHODS OF CALCULATING COST
IMPORTANTANCE OF ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING
STEPS FOR IMPLEMENTING ACTIVITY-BASED
COSTING
TRADITIONAL COSTING VS ACTIVITY-BASED
COSTING
COST COLOURS
LIMITATIONS OF ACTIVITY BASED COSTING
SUMMARY
WHAT IS COST?
According To American Accounting
Association
1. Direct costing
2. Traditional costing
3. Activity based costing
(ABC)
ACTIVITY-BASED
COSTING
Activity-based costing is a method that is
designed to provide management with
cost information
Activity-based costing
encourages management to
evaluate efficiency
STEPS FOR IMPLEMENTING
ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING
2. MANUFACTURING COSTS
This results in
This results in
• Applying idle capacity • more stable unit costs
costs to products • consistency with the
• Unstable unit product objective of assigning
costs
FLOW OF ACTIVITIES