Accounting

Lecture on Activity Based Costing

Lecture on Activity Based Costing

The activity based costing (ABC), which is a tool that has been embraced by a wide variety of service, manufacturing, and non-profit organizations. It is a special costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. This model assigns more indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs compared to conventional costing models.