Lecture Managerial accounting (14/e) - Chapter 7: Activity-based costing: a tool to aid decision making

This chapter introduces students to activity-based costing (ABC), which is a tool that has been embraced by a wide variety of service, manufacturing, and non-profit organizations. After studying chapter 7, you should be able to: Understand activity-based costing and how it differs from a traditional costing system, assign costs to cost pools using a first-stage allocation, compute activity rates for cost pools,...