ACC 406 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Activity-Based Costing, Quality Costs

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Chapter 7 activity bassed costing and management: explain why functional (or volume) based costing approaches may produce distorted costs. Overhead costs have increased in significance over time and in many firms represent a much higher percentage of product costs than direct labour. Many overhead activities are unrelated to the units produced. Functional based costing systems are not able to assign the costs of these non unit based overhead activities properly. Non-unit based overhead activities often are consumed by products in different proportions than are unit based overhead activities. Because of this non-proportionality, assigning overhead by using only unit based drivers can distort product costs. If the non-unit based overhead costs are a significant proportion of total overhead costs, the inaccuracy in cost assignments can be a serious matter: explain how an activity based costing system works for product costing. Activities are identified and defined through the use of interviews and surveys. This information allows an activity dictionary to be constructed.

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