System Used to Trace Costs

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Activity-Based Costing is a set of systems that a manager can use to trace historical costs (resources consumed) to activities and then, through those activities, to products or services provided (Tavana & Rappaport, 1997, 307). ABC allows local managers to develop activities for their cost needs while simultaneously generating service or process costs. The advantage of the detail in ABC for the manager is to give visibility to value added and non-value activities (Masters, Allenby, La Londe, & Maltz, 1992, 47).

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"ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

What is Activity-Based Costing
Activity-Based Costing is a set of systems that a manager can use to trace historical costs (resources consumed) to activities and then, through those activities, to products or services provided (Tavana & Rappaport, 1997, 307). ABC allows local managers to develop activities for their cost needs while simultaneously generating service or process costs. The advantage of the detail in ABC for the manager is to give visibility to value added and non-value activities (Masters, Allenby, La Londe, & Maltz, 1992, 47).

Within this framework, are further sub-definitions."

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