ABC Costing
ABC Costing
• Concept,
• Significance and salient features;
• Stages and flow of costs in ABC;
• Basic components of ABC - resource drivers and
cost drivers;
• Application of ABC in a manufacturing
organization and service industry.
Concept
Activity Based Costing is an accounting methodology that
assigns costs to activities rather than products or services.
This enables resources & overhead costs to be more
accurately assigned to products & services that consume
them. ABC is a technique which involves identification of
cost with each cost driving activity and making it as the basis
for apportionment of costs over different cost objects/ jobs/
products/customers or services.
ABC assigns cost to activities based on their use of resources.
It then assigns cost to cost objects, such as products or
customers, based on their use of activities. ABC can track the
flow of activities in organization by creating a link between
the activity (resource consumption) and the cost object.
CIMA defines 'Activity Based Costing' as "An approach to
the costing and monitoring of activities which involves tracing
resource consumption and costing final outputs. Resources are
assigned to activities, and activities to cost objects based on
consumption estimates. The latter utilize cost drivers to attach
activity costs to outputs."
Significance and salient features
ABC is particularly needed by organizations for product
costing in the following situations:
1) High amount of overhead: When production
overheads are high and form significant costs, ABC is
more useful than traditional costing system.
2) Wide range of products: ABC is most suitable, when,
there is diversity in the product range or there are
multiple products.
3) Presence of non-volume related activities: When non-
volume related activities e.g. material handling,
inspection set-up, are present significantly and
traditional system cannot be applied, ABC is a
superior and better option. ABC will identify non-
value-adding activities in the production process that
might be a suitable focus for attention or elimination.
4) Stiff competition: When the organisation is facing stiff
competition and there is an urgent requirement to
compute cost accurately and to fix the selling price
according to the market situation, ABC is very useful.
ABC can also facilitate in reducing cost by identifying
non-value-adding activities in the production process
that might be a suitable focus for attention or
elimination.
2. Costs are related to activities and 2 Costs are related to cost centers and
hence are more realistic. hence not realistic of cost
behaviour.
5. Cost are assigned to cost objects, e.g. 5. Costs are assigned to Cost
customers, products, services, departments, Units
etc. i.e. to products, or jobs or hours.
Hierarchy of
Activities
• Sales revenue
Distribution • Number of units distributed
• Number of customers
The budgeted direct labour rate was ' 10 per hour, and the
budgeted material cost was ' 2 per kg. Production overheads
were budgeted at ' 99,450 and were absorbed to products
using the direct labour hour rate. ABC Ltd. followed the
Absorption Costing System.
ABC Ltd. is now considering to adopt an Activity Based
Costing system. The following additional information is made
available for this purpose.
1. Budgeted overheads were analysed into the
following:
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Storage costs 31,200
Electricity 39,150
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1. C Ltd manufactures four products W, X, Y and Z. Output and cost data for the period just
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Products Output units Material Labour Cost per unit , Machine Time per unit (Hours)
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Products w )( ~ ~ Total
No. of Set-up 10 1 2 5 18
No. of Purchase Orders 6 1 1 5 13
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Presently overheads costs are charged to the products on the basis of Machine Hours. Prepare the
Cost Statements under Traditional and ABC.
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2. Kalyani Manufacturing Company has three salaried accounts payable clerks responsible for
processing purchase invoices. Each clerk is paid a salary of ~30,000 and is capable of
processing 5,000 invoices per year (working efficiently).
In addition to the salaries, Kalyani spends ~,000 per year for fforms, postage and so on (assuming
15,000 invoices are processed). During the year, 12,500 invoices were processed.
Required
a. Calculate the activity rate for the purchase order activity. Break the activity into fixed and
variable components.
b. Compute the total activity availability, and break this into activity usage and unused activity.
c. Calculate the total cost of resources supplied, and break this into activity usage and unused
activity.
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Machine department costs (rent, business rates. depreciation and supervision) 10,430
Set-up costs 5.250
Stores receiving 3,600
Inspection/quality control 2. 100
Materials handli ng and d ispatch 4.620
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The following information relates to a production period:
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irect labour
The four products are similar and are usually produced in production runs of 24 units and sold in
batches of 12 units. Using machine hour rate currently absorbs the production overheads. The total
overheads incurred by the company for the period is as follows:
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Inspection 10,000
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During the period the following cost drivers are to be used for the overhead cost:
rn Machine operation and maintenance cost should be apportioned between setup cost, store
receiving and inspection activity in 4:3:2.
rll Number of requisition raised on store is SO for each product and the no. of order executed is 192,
each order being for a batch of 12 of a product.
Required:
( i) Calculate the total costs of each product, if all overhead costs are absorbed on machine
hour rate basis.
( ii) Calculate the total costs of each product using activity base costing.
(iii) Comment briefly on differences disclosed between overhead traced by present system
and those traced by activity based costing.
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