Helpful for management decision
Find out which segments are profitable
Customer and product profitability
Feasibility in Benchmarking
Capital budgeting
Cost of implementing and maintenance
Time consuming
Internal resistance
Doesn¡¯t provide timeliness information
Confusion among ABC and Traditional way
Time-Driven Activity Based Costing
The revised concept of Activity Based Costing by Kaplan & Anderson
Almost costs have time dimension
Activity
% of Time Spent
Assigned Cost
Activity Quantity
Cost-Driver Rate
Process customers orders
70%
$392,000
49,000
$8 per order
Handle customer inquiries
10%
$56,000
1,400
$40 per quantity
Perform credit checks
20%
$112,000
2,500
$44.80 per credit check
Total
100%
$560,000
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Activity
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1)Cost Saving
2)Time Saving
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