ACCA F5 Activity Based Costing Lecture 3 Advantages of, and problems with
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absorption costing tends to under allocate OH costs to low volume product.sir can u explain this statement,how?
In future please ask this sort of question in the Ask the Tutor Forum rather than as a comment on a lecture.
Absorption costing allocates overheads at the same rate per unit to all products – whether high or low volume.
However, low volume products are likely to use more resources (just as I explain the lecture) and therefore low volume products are likely to be more expense per unit. ABC deals with this, whereas absorption costing does not.
Dear Sir,
in the lecture example, is the main reason for the greater OH absorption by unit C the 20 orders despatched for only 2000 units produced?
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If possible could you give a brief explanation of how you would approach ABC for a service based company?
For example a contact centre taking telephone orders and sub-contracting to other suppliers and charging a margin. What would be your approach.
Thanks,
Terence
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Well explained ?. Thank you so much John.
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How can I calculate Group Retained Earning on Group Financial Statement??Can any one explain please with example???
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how can ABC lead to reduction in total overheads?
But I explain this in the lecture and give examples!
By focussing on what is causing the overheads to occur you may be able to operate more efficiently and therefore incur lower overheads.
well explained thnk you
A well done presentation. Cost savings as an advantage was well explained. Is it possible to increase unit of production of C to reduce costs because ABC tend to over cost low volume products and under cost high volume products. Thanks
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Yes – increasing production will reduce costs, but the problem is as to whether we would be able to sell all the production. Maybe with lower costs we could reduce the price and therefore sell more, but that is the problem in real life 馃檪
Thanks John
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Makes a lot of sense. Thank you
Very Helpful thanks a lot
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Very Very helpful.!
Thank you sir
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Amazing!
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