Activity Based Costing Practice An Overview
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Activity-Based Costing Practice. An Overview
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 1,7, Universität Osnabrück, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Activity-based costing (ABC) is one of the most recent achievements of modern accounting theory. Therefore it has not been researched on immediately through the 1980s and 1990s. There also have been several problems with the implementation of ABC. The methodology of ABC evolved to be applicable more efficiently and flexible. Given that information, nowadays we come to the question, what kind of development ABC went through and which benefits are coming alongside to those recent changes. The intention is to give the reader an overview about ABC as a new costing system in general, to understand the methodology behind ABC and to give a basis for a discussion on the latest changes of its systematics. One of the most recent tidings, when it comes to the methodology of ABC, is the Time-Driven ABC (TDABC) by Kaplan and Anderson (2007). This new systematic shall also be researched more-over in this work, to analyze and compare its applicability to the early ABC system. This will hopefully create a basis for additional critical discussions on this topic. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In the next chapter the reader will be given a basic understanding of how ABC works in general and in comparison to other “traditional” accounting methods. Afterwards there will be an analysis on the survey “[...] of Activity-Based Costing in the U.K.’s largest Companies” made by J. Innes and F. Mitchell in 1994. The Analysis will focus on outlining the results to create a frame for the beginning of the application of ABC. Having that frame there will be a short discussion to ensure a comparison to the state of the art. The fourth chapter will outline that state of the art. It will depict the development of the adoption and the areas which ABC has been used for and brief the reader about the TDABC. The last chapter will on the one side conclude the results of this work and on the other side it will depict the potential of future research.
Activity-based Costing and Activity-based Management for Health Care
Author: Judith J. Baker
language: en
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Release Date: 1998
This book applies activity-based costing and activity-based management techniques to health care in a very practical guide that offers health care administrators and students 'hands-on' forms, worksheets, report formats, examples of activity-based costing and activity-based management planning and information, and actual case studies.
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Author: Robert S. Kaplan
language: en
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Release Date: 2007-02-22
In the classroom, ABC looks like a great way to manage a company’s resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate resources required for business activities proved too time-consuming, expensive, and irritating to employees. This book shows you how to implement time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC. You can now estimate directly the resource demands imposed by each business transaction, product, or customer. The payoff? You spend less time and money obtaining and maintaining TDABC data—and more time addressing problems that TDABC reveals, such as inefficient processes, unprofitable products and customers, and excess capacity. The authors also show how to use TDABC to link strategic planning to operational budgeting, to enhance the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management and benchmarking. In presenting their model, the authors define the two questions required to build TDABC: 1) How much does it cost per time unit to supply resource capacity for each business process? 2) How much resource capacity (time) is required to perform work for a company’s many transactions, products, and customers? The book demonstrates how to develop simple, valid answers to these two questions. Kaplan and Anderson illustrate the TDABC approach with a wealth of case studies, in diverse settings, based on actual implementations.