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What is the reason of using activity based costing ( ABC ) for allocate OH cost ?

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Date Posted: 2014/09/22

to allocate over heads by Activity with its own allocation base , ABC depending upon a different bases according to the activity itself like : Electricity by Sq/F , Machines Deprecation by Machine/hr , HR department by number of manpower .. so it well get more accuracy for top management decisions. 

Kenneth Arvell Auman
by Kenneth Arvell Auman , Accountant , Empire Aviation Group FZCO

The reason for using activity-based costing is to allocate overhead accurately which leads to more accurate information and thus can supplement to a better and informed decision-making. Activity-based costing uses causal relationship between the cost object and cost driver. 

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