ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING 65 The traditional methods of cost allocation, cost apportionment and absorption into products...

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ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING

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The traditional methods of cost allocation, cost apportionment and absorption into

products are being challenged by some writers who claim that much information

given to management is misleading when these methods of dealing with fixed

overheads are used to determine product costs.

You are required to explain what is meant by

cost allocation, cost apportionment

and

absorption

and to describe briefly the alternative approach of

activity-based

costing

in order to ascertain total product costs

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