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Bariyah, Binti Ro’isatul, and Hwihanus Hwihanus. "PENERAPAN METODE ACTIVITY BASED COSTING DALAM MENENTUKAN HARGA POKOK PRODUKSI (STUDI KASUS PADA PENGRAJIN SANDAL DESA BERBEK)." JEA17: Jurnal Ekonomi Akuntansi 5, no. 2 (October 28, 2020): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.30996/jea17.v5i2.4280.
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ABSTRACTThis study aims to determine how to apply the calculation of activity based costing in determining the cost of goods manufactured and how to compare the cost of goods manufactured using traditional methods and activity based costing methods. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The data used are qualitative data in the form of company identity and quantitative data related to the company's production costs. Data collection was carried out by observation and interviews.The results showed the calculation of the cost of goods manufactured at UD. Karimunjawa Perkasa with the traditional method compared to the activity based costng method gives lower results for the mountain slop sandals and mountain slop sandals, while for the flat sandals gives a greater result. This is due to the calculation of the cost of goods manufactured by the traditional method using one cost driver while the activity based costing method uses more than one cost driver. Charging using activity based costing makes the calculation of the cost of goods manufactured more accurate, thus helping management in making decisions and determining the selling price
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Kamasih, Jimmy, David P. E. Saerang, and Lidya Mawikere. "ANALISIS PERHITUNGAN HARGA POKOK PRODUKSI DENGAN METODE TRADISIONAL DAN ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC) PADA UD. CELLA CAKE DAN BAKERY MANADO." ACCOUNTABILITY 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2015): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32400/ja.10522.4.2.2015.28-40.
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Activity Based Costing System can provide information for the better of cost calculation and can assist management to manage the company efficiently and gain a better understanding on competitive advantages, strengths, and weaknesses of the company. So that with Activity Based Costing can present carefully the information of cost product and accurately to the interests of management and comparing the cost calculation of production by using traditional methods and Activity Based Costing (ABC) at UD. Cella Cake and Bakery Manado. The purpose of this study was to determine the cost calculation of production using traditional methods and Activity Based Costing (ABC). The research method used is descriptive method. The results showed that the cost calculation of production using Activity-Based Costing System provides results that are more expensive than traditional systems on Pizza Chicken Bread, Sausage Bread and donuts. Traditional systems provide greater profit than the Activity-Based Costing system, because the calculations with the traditional system using only one cost driver so make inefficiency costs and generate profit and irrelevant
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Erena, Irma Nadia, and Engelwati Gani. "Comparative Analysis Of Conventional Method With Activity Based Costing In PT Mulia Sejati Gallery." Winners 17, no. 2 (September 30, 2016): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/tw.v17i2.1973.
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The goal of this research was to provide readers the information about the calculation methods, both traditional and activity-based costing in the application of the cost of production. The method used in this research was the qualitative method. The analysis was done by calculating the amount of the production cost using the traditional system and the magnitude of the production cost when using the activity-based costing system. The amount of each acquisition was then performed into data analysis. The results achieved are massive distortion between the calculations using traditional systems and activity based costing system. The conclusions of the whole thesis are activity-based costing system is considered more relevant than traditional systems that are currently used by the company.
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MOSKWA-BĘCZKOWSKA, Daria. "The concept of implementing the activitybased costing in multi-assortment manufacturing enterprise – theoretical aspects (part 1)." Scientific Papers of Silesian University of Technology. Organization and Management Series 2020, no. 146 (2020): 295–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.29119/1641-3466.2020.146.22.
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Purpose: The main objective of the article is to develop and present a concept for the implementation of activity-based costing in a company dealing with multi-assortment production of bookbinding machinery. However, due to the publishing requirements, the article was divided into two parts – the first one describes the theoretical approach to the problem and the second one presents the case study. Therefore, the aim of this part of the considerations is to present the shortcomings of traditional methods of unit cost calculation in the light of the literature on the subject and to present the main assumptions and calculation procedures of the concept of activity-based costing. Design/methodology/approach: The main research methods used in this part of the considerations are: analysis of the literature on the subject and inference. Findings: The result of the research is the conclusion that the traditional methods of unit cost calculation, i.e. full costing and variable costing, are insufficient for effective cost management in the company. Originality/value: This part of the analysis presents in a synthetic way the identified main disadvantages of traditional unit costing methods. An alternative solution to the discussed problem was also presented here, i.e. the change of the applied costing system into an activity based costing system – analyzing its assumptions and calculation procedures. This content is directed both to persons dealing with these matters from the theoretical perspective, as well as company owners and heads of controlling or production departments.
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Salim, Umar Hi. "ANALISIS PERANAN ACTIVITY BASED COSTING SYSTEM PADA PT. TIRTA MAHAKAM RESOURCES TBK. DI SAMARINDA." Research Journal of Accounting and Business Management 3, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31293/rjabm.v3i1.4221.
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The purpose of this paper is to find out the magnitude of the results of the imposition of Factory Overhead Costs on each product by implementing the Activity Based Costing System. The calculation results show that the difference in the burden of factory overhead using the traditional management accounting system with Activity Based Costing System shows that there are differences in each product, Plywood, Sawmill and Fancywood absorb factory overhead costs with traditional management accounting systems lower than Activity Based methods. Costing System (ABC) with costs of Rp. 5,056,946,700, -, Rp. 955,958,600 and Rp. 1,311,464,900 respectively, while Blockboard and Coating products absorb factory overhead costs using the Activity Based Costing System (ABC) method more. lower than the traditional management accounting system method with costs of Rp. 4,994,382,200 and Rp. 2,315,936,800The results of the per M3 cost calculation using the traditional management accounting system with Activity Based Costing System for each type of product produced by PT. Tirta Mahakam Resources Tbk. For Plywood, Sawmill and Fancywood products the difference in cost of goods with traditional accounting systems is lower than the activitybased costing system, while Blockboard products and coatings have a difference in the cost of products with an Activity Based Costing System lower than traditional accounting systems. The results of the calculation of product cost of the five products with the imposition of factory overhead costs using Activity Based Costing System illustrate the pattern of consumption of factory overhead costs which better reflects the amount of costs absorbed by each product. This is due to the fact that the Activity Based Costing System has a more cost center, so that the use of resources can be followed carefully to the cost center that consumes it. Thus, it can be seen that the Activity Based Costing System results in the loading of factory overhead costs which better reflect the amount of costs absorbed by each product than the traditional management accounting system.
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Faishal, Fahmi Hikmah, Heni Mulyani, and Leni Yulianti. "Analisis Penerapan Metode Activity Based Costing dalam Menentukan Harga Sewa Kamar Hotel." JURNAL PENDIDIKAN AKUNTANSI & KEUANGAN 6, no. 2 (July 20, 2018): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/jpak.v6i2.15918.
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Abstract.This study aims to find out how the application of hotel room rental prices by using activity based costing at de’Kayakini Bandung hotels. This study uses descriptive research methods. Descriptive research to determine the difference in activity based costing methods with traditional methods. In this study there is only one type of variable used, namely rent. The rental price is the amount of money that will be paid for something to be received, the rental price in this study is the selling price. The data sources used in this study are secondary data sources. Secondary data is obtained from Hotel De’Kayakini in the form of hotel cost reports. The results of the study show that from the calculation of the cost of rooms using the activity based costing method, the lower cost of goods is obtained compared to the traditional cost accounting method.Keywords. activity based costing; room rental prices AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk untuk mengetahui bagaimana penerapan harga sewa kamar hotel dengan menggunakan activity based costing pada hotel de’Kayakini Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif. Penelitian deskriptif untuk mengetahui perbedaan metode activity based costing dengan metode tradisional. Dalam penelitian ini terdapat hanya satu jenis variabel yang digunakan yaitu harga sewa. Harga sewa adalah sejumlah uang yang akan dibayarkan untuk sesuatu hal yang akan diterima, harga sewa dalam penelitian ini adalah harga jual. Sumber data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini, merupakan sumber data sekunder. Data sekunder didapatkan dari Hotel De’Kayakini berupa laporan biaya hotel. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dari perhitungan harga pokok kamar dengan menggunakan metode activity based costing diperoleh harga pokok yang lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan metode traditional cost accounting.Kata kunci. activity based costing; harga sewa kamar
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Haroun, Ahmed E. "Maintenance cost estimation: application of activity-based costing as a fair estimate method." Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering 21, no. 3 (August 10, 2015): 258–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jqme-04-2015-0015.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the use of activity-based costing (ABC) approach as an alternative option to the traditional cost accounting system. The contribution of this study is to demonstrate, through a simple example, the application of that costing system in a service (maintenance) industry, i.e. the paper intended to develop a procedure for a cost model that help in calculating any maintenance job cost, to a reasonable degree of accuracy, based on the actual activities performed. Design/methodology/approach – This research uses a simple example whereby hypothetical activities and cost data of maintaining an injector and a pump, of an internal combustion engine, are used, presented and analyzed based on the use of the developed procedure. Findings – ABC system provides more accurate cost estimates rather than the traditional “order costing” methods that uses unit-level costs which are variable in relation to change in service volume. Traditional cost methods distort the costs by applying overhead uniformly over different jobs of varied complexities and activities scope. On the other hand, ABC is a useful means to distribute the overhead costs in proportion (fairly) to the actual activities performed in a specific job and, hence, enhance the rationality of decision making, i.e. will not distort the accounting information used for cost reduction, pricing, and evaluation matters. The results obtained from the analysis showed that allocating costs to the maintained injector decreased from $83.55 to $71.95 and, finally, to $67.57 when using the workshop-wide, two-stage and ABC overhead allocation methods, respectively; while that of the pump increased from $298.90 to $340.34 and, finally, to $359.48 when using the same three methods, in the same order, respectively. The result is quite fair when considering the complexity of the fuel pump, in terms of design and maintenance, when compared with the injector. Notice that using volume to allocate overhead costs results in over costing high-volume products, e.g. injectors (simple in terms of design and operation) and under costing low-volume products, e.g. pumps (more complex in terms of design and operation). The paper recommends to use ABC as a more accurate and fair method when charging maintenance job orders based on the analysis of costing two maintained items in the same premise while consuming different overhead resources. Practical implications – This study attempts to analyze different methods to calculate a specific corrective maintenance job order. It strives to remedy the drawbacks of the traditional overhead costing of a job order when using principles related to the size of service, such as the direct labor cost/hours, as an allocation base. Consequently, the study proposed a new costing method, i.e. application of ABC. The traditional costing approach is considered by many firms as the best costing method. Nevertheless, it allocates overhead cost over job performed uniformly (equally) not differentiating between the complexity of the job and variety of the activities performed, e.g. using the same allocation base for “oil change” and “fuel pump adjustment” activities. So, ABC prevents cost distortions (unfairness) that could not be prevented by traditional cost accounting system. The author believes that the method presented in this paper will provide a useful management tool for costing maintenance jobs based on the appropriate selected activity drivers in maintenance workshops. The method could be applied for costing maintenance activities in maintenance of all industrial sectors. Originality/value – The use of traditional costing method has proven to be distorted by applying overhead uniformly over different jobs of varied complexities and activities scope. In this paper the authors strive to present an effective costing alternative that outperforms the traditional ones with regard to overhead allocation. The paper aims to find reliable and fair maintenance costing method, i.e. to find out the relationships between maintenance activities and cost drivers. Although, ABC is widely used in manufacturing industry, no application or current research has presented an applicable thorough worked-out example, with the exception, to the author’s knowledge, of one in the aeronautical industry, to implement ABC method in maintenance industry. The importance of using this method comes from the fact that it provides, relatively, accurate and fair maintenance bills that provide customer satisfaction and firm good image. Hence, the paper is relevant in this respect and intended to contribute to the practice of maintenance management.
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Čečević, Bojana Novićević, Ljilja Antić, and Kristina Spasić. "Cost Accounting and Performance Measurement With the Purpose of Increasing the Competitiveness of Sports Organizations." Economic Themes 58, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 235–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ethemes-2020-0014.
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AbstractDynamic business environment, rise in the share of overheads in total costs, strong competition on the global market and numerous other challenges that organizations are facing have imposed the need to reexamine the existing, design new costing methods and apply more appropriate management tools to improve management information basis, maintain and improve competitive advantage. In addition to traditional costing methods, organizations apply the methods adapted to the changing business environment, such as Activity-Based Costing (ABC). The positive experiences of manufacturing organizations which apply activity-based costing have led to the expansion of ABC application among service organizations. Changes in cost accounting are in line with changes in performance measurement systems, all for the purpose of improving the functioning of organizations and successfully responding to the demands of a changing business environment. The paper analyzes the possibility of applying activity-based costing and Balanced Scorecard in sports organizations that provide a large number of specific services.
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Linassi, Rossano, Anete Alberton, and Sidnei Vieira Marinho. "Menu engineering and activity-based costing." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 28, no. 7 (July 11, 2016): 1417–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-09-2014-0438.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine whether using menu engineering (ME) together with activity-based costing (ABC) for menu analysis provides new insights into true menu profitability. The traditional ME approach only uses food costs to determine the contribution margin (CM) of individual menu items. This combined approach uses both food and traceable operating costs to estimate CMs more accurately. Design/methodology/approach An improved ME model was developed and tested in an oriental restaurant in Brazil. Direct observation of restaurant activities allowed most costs to be traced (not simply allocated) to individual menu items. Findings The results revealed small differences in the rankings between the traditional approach and ABC/ME, demonstrating that the integration of ABC with ME made it to possible to identify increased food-costs and lower CMs for all groups of menu items. The results also show that ABC methods are applicable to an oriental-style restaurant. Research limitations/implications Just one restaurant and only 80 per cent of the menu were examined in this study. Future research should apply the model used here to other restaurant types located in different geographical areas to validate the approach. Practical implications The results suggest that ME can be improved upon by first assessing variable costs using ABC methods. Originality/value This paper combines two different analytic techniques (ME and ABC) into a new approach that reveals the true picture of profit and loss for a menu from a restaurant in Brazil.
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Vedernikova, Olga, Lorena Siguenza-Guzman, Johanna Pesantez, and Rodrigo Arcentales-Carrion. "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in the Assembly Industry." Australasian Business, Accounting & Finance Journal 14, no. 4 (2020): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.14453/aabfj.v14i4.2.
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Costs and their determination play a critical role in all manufacturing companies. The traditional costing system has received criticism resulting from the arbitrary allocation of indirect manufacturing costs. As an important initiative to address its weaknesses, new costing methods such as the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) have emerged. Unfortunately, up to our knowledge, no investigations have been applied in analyzing assembly companies thoroughly nor considering all the processes necessary to obtain the final products. This article explores the TDABC application in the assembly industry through comparison with traditional volume-based costing by focusing on manual and semi-automatized production. Since the research is descriptive, a multiple-case study design was implemented in the assembly of televisions, motorcycles, and printed circuit boards. The developed methodology allowed determining the existence of factory overhead and direct labor cost variances between two different cost accounting systems, which also affected the unit cost of the products. Findings also highlight the benefits of TDABC application in the assembly industry, along with the shortcomings and future potential of research in this area.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Traditional costing methods"
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Abrahamsson, Emilie. "Relationen mellan kalkyleringsmetoder, Lean och produktionsflöden av kundanpassad karaktär : Hur kostnadsprecisionen i förkalkyleringen i denna typ av produktion kan ökas samt vilken kalkyleringsmetod som passar bäst." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-20442.
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Då tillverkningsindustrin går mot en högre grad av kundanpassning och implementering av Lean, samtidigt som föråldrade traditionella kalkyleringsmetoder fortfarande används i moderna industriföretag, är det intressant att utreda relationerna mellan produktionsflöden av kundanpassad karaktär, Lean samt olika kalkyleringsmetoder. Syftet är att öka kostnadsprecisionen i förkalkylen för ett produktionsflöde av kundanpassad och Lean karaktär och beskriva en generaliserbar arbetsprocess för detta. Syftet är även att ta fram generella rekommendationer för val av kalkyleringsmetod genom att utifrån denna produktions karaktär genomföra en jämförande analys av kalkyleringsmetoder (traditionella kalkylmetoder, ABC och kalkylering enligt Lean). Genom en litteraturstudie samt en fallstudie av ett produktionsflöde med många varianter och inslag av Lean har båda syftena uppfyllts. Fallstudien har utförts genom intervjuer och observationer. Problem och positiva faktorer som enligt litteratur karaktäriserar produktion av kundanpassade produkter har även återfunnits på fallföretaget. Det sambandet har kunnat användas för att stödja analysen av relationerna. Relationerna mellan kalkyleringsmetoder, Lean samt produktionsflöden av kundanpassad karaktär har analyserats genom att jämföra litteratur och resultat från fallstudien. Det framkom att Value Stream Costing (VSC) är den mest lämpliga kalkyleringsmetoden för produktionsflöden med kundanpassade produkter som uppnått en hög mognadsgrad av Lean. Förkalkyleringen på fallföretaget är beroende av tillförlitliga operationstider, vilket tagits fram på fallföretaget samtidigt som en generell arbetsprocess utarbetats. Operationstiderna togs i detta fall fram genom videoupptagning av produktionsmomenten samt efterföljande analys i mjukvaran AviX. Genom att följa den generella arbetsprocessen som utarbetats erhålls både ett bra underlag till förkalkylering samt ständiga förbättringar i produktionsflödet. Eftersom forskning visar att Lean bör implementeras i hela organisationen om full fördel med Lean ska uppnås, kan VSC vara en utmärkt kalkyleringsmetod för att komma ifrån föråldrade, traditionella kalkyleringsmetoder samtidigt som denna kalkyleringsmetod förenklar kalkylering i produktion av kundanpassad karaktär.Since the manufacturing industry is heading for a higher level of customization and implementation of Lean, at the same time as outmoded traditional costing methods is still used in modern industrial organizations, it is interesting to explore the relations between production flows of customized character, Lean and different costing methods. The purpose of this thesis is to increase the cost precision in the preliminary calculation for a product flow of customer adapted and Lean character, and to describe a generalizable work process for this. The purpose is also to develop general recommendations regarding the choice of costing methods by, on a basis of the character of this production, a comparative analysis of costing methods (traditional costing methods, ABC and Lean accounting/VSC). Through a literature study and a case study of a production flow with a high level of variety and influence from Lean, both of the purposes has been fulfilled. The case study has been accomplished through interviews and observations. Problems and positive elements that according to literature characterize the production of customized products have also been found in the case company. That connection has been used to support the analysis of the relations. The relations between costing methods, Lean and production flows of customized character has been analyzed through a comparison between findings in literature and results from the case study. It has been found that Value Stream Costing (VSC) is the most appropriate costing method for production flows of customized products that has reached a high maturity level of Lean. The preliminary costing is dependent on reliable operation times which have been produced on the case study company, while a general work process has been developed. The operation times were in this case identified through video recordings of the production moments and a following analysis in the software AviX. By following the general work process that has been developed, useful material for preliminary costing and continuous improvements in the production flow will be obtained. Since research is showing that Lean should be implemented in the whole organization if full advantages of Lean shall be obtained, VSC is found to be an ideal costing method to replace outmoded, traditional costing methods at the same time as this costing method simplifies costing in production flows of customized character.
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Maluleke, Mashangu Justice. "Comparative analysis of activity based costing as an alternative to the traditional costing methods in SASSA." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26798.
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Abstracts in English, Xhosa and AfrikaansThe South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is the mechanism that enables service delivery to alleviate poverty in South Africa through the payment of social grants as mandated by the Social Security Agency Act No. 9 of 2004. The rapid increase of social grant beneficiaries in the past decade, fuelled by social inequality, directly affects the administration cost associated with social grants. This study aimed to investigate the allocation of indirect costs related to the administrative elements that makes it possible for SASSA to pay social grants. Semi-structured interviews were conducted; the study concluded that ABC (activity-based costing) could be implemented as an alternative to the traditional costing (TC) method on a pilot project basis. The study also recommended a framework for SASSA to consider in laying the foundation to start the process of ABC implementation. Drawing from the research conducted, further studies on the implementation of ABC principles within the public sector could be pursued.
Ejensi ya Vuhlayiseki bya Vanhu ya Afrika Dzonga ku nga South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) i ndlela leyi endlaka leswaku mphakelo wa vukorhokeri wu koteka ku hunguta vusweti eAfrika Dzonga hikwalaho ka ku hakeriwa ka timalimpfuneto ta vanhu (social grants) tanihileswi swi pfumeleriweke hi Nawu wa Social Security Agency Act 9 wa 2004. Ku ndlandlamuka ka vavuyeriwa va malimpfuneto ya vanhu swi khumbha hi ku kongomisa tihakelo ta vulawuri leti fambelanaka na timalimpfuneto ta vanhu. Dyondzo leyi yi kongomisiwile eka ku lavisisa mphakelo wa tihakelo to ka ti nga kongomisi leti fambelanaka na swiyenge swa vulawuri leswi endlaka leswaku SASSA yi kota ku hakela timalimpfuneto ta vanhu. Ku endliwe ti-semi-structured interview. Dyondzo yi kumile leswo ti-activity-based costing (ABC) ti nga tirhisiwa hi ndlela yo cincana na maendlelo ya vupimahakelo bya ntolovelo eka projeke ya nkarhinyana. Dyondzo yi bumabumerile leswaku ku anakanyiwa rimba ro nyika mianakanyo yo sungula maendlelo yo tirhisa ABC.
Die “South African Social Security Agency” (SASSA) verlig armoede in Suid-Afrika deur ingevolge die “Social Security Agency Act” 9 van 2004 sosiale toelaes te betaal. Die aansienlike toename in die aantal begunstigdes het ʼn uitwerking op die administrasiekoste van sosiale toelaes. Hierdie studie ondersoek die toewysing van indirekte koste ten opsigte van die administratiewe elemente wat SASSA in staat stel om sosiale toelaes te betaal. Halfgestruktureerde onderhoude is gevoer. In hierdie studie word tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat aktiwiteitsgebaseerde kosteberekening (ABK) as ʼn alternatief vir en as ʼn proefprojek die tradisionele kosteberamingsmetode geïmplementeer kan word. ʼn Raamwerk word aanbeveel wat as ʼn grondslag kan dien vir die implementering van ABK.
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Books on the topic "Traditional costing methods"
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Ruggles, Philip Kent. Printing estimating: Costing methods for digital and traditional graphic imaging. 4th ed. Albany: Delmar Publishers, 1996.
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Printing Estimating: Digital and Traditional Costing Methods for Graphic Imaging (Graphic Comm (Non-Software)). 4th ed. Thomson Delmar Learning, 1996.
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Sturdy, Andrew, Stefan Heusinkveld, Trish Reay, and David Strang, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.001.0001.
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Management ideas, and their associated applications, have become a prevalent feature of our working lives. While their focus is familiar, such as efficiency, motivation, and improvement, they range from specific notions such as activity-based costing, to broad movements like corporate social responsibility. This Handbook brings together some of the latest research from leading international scholars on how management ideas are produced, promoted, and adapted, and their effects on business and working practices and society at large. Rather than focusing on specific management ideas, this volume explores their key socio-political contexts and channels of dissemination, and is organized around four core overlapping themes. The first section sets out the research field in general, in terms of both an overall system and of different perspectives and research methods. The second section explores the role of different actors and channels of diffusion, including the consumers and producers of management ideas and new media, as well as traditional players in the management ideas field such as consultancies and business schools. The third section focuses on specific features or dynamics of the management ideas system, such as their adoption, evolution, institutionalization, and resurgence, while in the final section, critical and new perspectives on management ideas are examined, highlighting specific socio-political contexts and the possibility of alternative ideas and forms of critique. With a broad range of perspectives represented, this Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and enduring resource for those studying management, innovation, and organizational change, as well as for those working in the management ideas industry.
Book chapters on the topic "Traditional costing methods"
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Picoito, Célia, and Maria João Major. "New Public Management Reforms in the Portuguese NHS." In Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care, 1156–71. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch060.
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New Public Management (NPM) is a global paradigm that affects all public sectors, health included. Following the course of NPM reforms, Portuguese hospitals adopted a more business-oriented approach. Among various transformations hospitals have been through, the way they are financed changed from a retrospective finance system, based on a budget determined by the previous year’s costs, to “contratos-programa” that are established between each hospital, the provider, and Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS), the financier. Once these “contrato-programa” are based in prices per production lines, it is extremely important to have an effective cost system that can calculate accurate costs for each production line. With this purpose, in 2007 a pilot project was initiated to replace the existing and mandatory cost department method by Activity-Based Costing (ABC) method. In this chapter, the authors analyze the changes performed in the Portuguese hospitals by NPM movement and the role that traditional (cost department) and ABC methods play in it.
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Zampou, Eleni, Stelios Eliakis, and Katerina Pramatari. "Measuring the Benefit of Interoperability." In Interoperability in Digital Public Services and Administration, 321–38. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-887-6.ch017.
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Governments started e-government strategies to renew the public sector and eliminate existing bureaucracy and therefore reduce costs. Interoperability appears as the mean for accomplishing the interlinking of information systems, applications and ways of working not only within governments but also in their interaction with the administration, enterprises and public sector. The main source of administration costs is the traditional use of paper as the linkage element between public agencies. Integrated electronic processes between public agencies can be the solution to reduce these costs and create a more efficient public sector. This paper proposes an approach for measuring the benefit of incorporating interoperability in e-government. This approach is based on the identification and analysis of certain processes (business process modelling) and on the activity based costing method. In particular, this approach concerns the measuring of benefit of applying interoperability in e-government services.
Conference papers on the topic "Traditional costing methods"
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Coughlin, Michael K., and Michael J. Scott. "An Activity-Based Costing Method to Support Market-Driven Top-Down Product Family Design." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-12264.
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As more and more companies offer product families rather than individual products, the competitive advantage of product platforming is shrinking. In order to compete companies need to link marketing and engineering so that designers are able to make decisions about critical trade-offs between cost and performance. The current methods for market-driven platform designs use traditional product costing where indirect costs are assigned to individual products based on relative production quantities. Because of increasing product diversity and decreasing direct labor costs, the ratio of indirect costs to total cost of products is increasing. A method for use during the design stage of top-down product family design is needed to assign indirect costs to individual products based on the product’s consumption of indirect resources. An activity-based costing method for top-down product family design is presented here. This method allows the designer to model indirect costs as a function of engineering attributes, creating a framework for top-down product platform optimization that provides a more accurate estimation of cost than traditional product costing methods. An illustrative example shows that an activity-based costing model predicts different profitability from a traditional costing system for a number of different motor designs.
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Waghmode, Laxman Yadu, and Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe. "Life Cycle Cost Modeling of Pumps Using an Activity Based Costing Methodology." In ASME 2010 10th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2010-24043.
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In order to survive in today’s competitive global business environment, implementation of life cycle costing methodology with a greater emphasis on cost control could be one of the convincing approaches for the manufacturing firms. The product life cycle costing approach can help track and analyse the cost implications associated with each phase of product life cycle. Life cycle costing (LCC) practices with traditional costing methods may provide results that have a severe deviation from the real product LCC as it focuses on the cost of materials, labor and a low portion of overheads apportioned by the absorption rate to the product. Activity based costing (ABC) has emerged as one of the several innovative and more accurate costing methods in recent years. It is based on the principle that products or services consume activities and activities consume resources that generate costs. Thus, the ABC system focuses on calculating the costs incurred on performing the activities to manufacture a product. This paper presents a LCC modeling approach for estimating life cycle cost of pumps using activity based costing method. The study was conducted in a large pump manufacturing company from India that has significant global standing within its industry. Firstly, all the activities and cost drivers associated with the life cycle of a pump have been identified. A methodology for LCC analysis using ABC is then developed and it is applied to two different pumps manufactured by the same industry and the results obtained are presented.
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Cheung, Wai M., Linda B. Newnes, Antony R. Mileham, Robert Marsh, and John D. Lanham. "A Study of Life Cycle Costing in the Perspectives of Research and Commercial Applications in the 21st Century." In ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2007-34425.
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This paper presents a review of research in the area of life cycle costing and offers a critique of current commercial cost estimation systems. The focus of the review is on relevant academic research on life cycle cost from 2000 onwards. In addition to this a comparison of the current cost estimation systems is presented. Using the review findings and industrial investigations as a base, a set of mathematical representations for design and manufacturing costs and the introduction of the critical factors is proposed. These are considered in terms of the operational, maintenance and disposal costs to create a method for ascertaining the life cycle cost estimate for complex products. This is presented using as an exemplar, research currently being undertaken in the area of low volume and long life electronic products in the UK defence sector. The benefit of the method proposed is that it aims to avoid the inflexibility of traditional approaches which usually require historical and legacy data to support the cost estimation processes.
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Farrell, Ronald S., and Timothy W. Simpson. "Improving Cost Effectiveness in an Existing Product Line Using Component Product Platforms." In ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2008-49544.
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Previously, we introduced a new method for improving commonality in a highly customized, low volume product line using component product platforms. The method provides a bottom-up platform approach to redesign family members originally developed one-at-a-time to meet specific customer requirements. In this paper, we extend the method with an Activity-Based Costing (ABC) model to specifically capture the manufacturing costs in the product line, including the cost associated with implementing a platform strategy. The valve yoke example is revisited in this paper, the customized ABC model is defined, two design strategy alternatives are addressed, and the new method is used to determine which alternative is better at resolving the tradeoff between commonality, total cost, and product performance. The proposed method shows promise for creating a product platform portfolio from a set of candidate component platforms that is most cost-effective within an existing product line. The proposed method allows for arbitrary leveraging as it does not rely solely on the traditional vertical, horizontal, or beachhead strategies advocated for the market segmentation grid, and this is especially beneficial when applied to an existing product line that was develop one-at-a-time time such that artifact designs are inconsistent from one to another.
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Dygert, Joseph P., Melissa L. Morris, Erik M. Messick, and Patrick H. Browning. "Feasibility of an Energy Efficient Large-Scale Aquaponic Food Production and Distribution Facility." In ASME 2014 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2014-6567.
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Today the United States is plagued by societal issues, economic insecurity, and increasing health problems. Societal issues include lack of community inclusion, pollution, and access to healthy foods. The high unemployment coupled with the rising cost of crude oil derivatives, and the growing general gap between cost of living and minimum wage levels contribute to a crippled consumer-driven US economy. Health concerns include increasing levels of obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. These epidemics lead to staggering economic burdens costing Americans hundreds of billions of dollars each year. It is well-known that many of the health issues impacting Americans can be directly linked to the production, availability, and quality of the food. Factors contributing to the availability of food include reduction of United States farmland, an increase in food imported from overseas, and the cost of goods to the consumer. The quality of food is influenced by the method of growth as well as imposed preservation techniques to support food transportation and distribution. At the same time, it has become increasingly common to implement biotechnology in genetically modified crops for direct human food or indirectly as a livestock feed for animals consumed by humans. Crops are also routinely dosed with pesticides and hormones in an attempt to increase productivity and revenue, with little consideration or understanding of the long term health effects. Research shows that community gardens positively impact local employment, community involvement and inclusivity, and the diets of not only those involved in food production, but all members of their households. The purpose of this work is to determine the feasibility of an energy efficient large-scale aquaponic food production and distribution facility which could directly mitigate growing socioeconomic concerns in the US through applied best practices in sustainability. Aquaponics is a symbiotic relationship between aquaculture and hydroponics, where fish and plants grow harmoniously. The energy efficient facility would be located in an urban area, and employ solar panels, natural lighting, rain water reclamation, and a floor plan optimized for maximum food yield and energy efficiency. Examples of potential crops include multiple species of berries, corn, leafy vegetables, tomatoes, peppers, squash, and carrots. Potential livestock include responsibly farmed tilapia, shrimp, crayfish, and oysters. The large scale aquaponic facility shows a lengthy period for financial return on investment whether traditional style construction of the building or a green construction style is used. However many forms of federal government aid and outside assistance exist for green construction to help drive down the risk in the higher initial investment which in the long run could end up being more profitable than going with a traditionally constructed building. Outside of financial return there are many proven, positive impacts that a large-scale aquaponic facility would have. Among these are greater social involvement and inclusivity, job creation, increased availability of fresh food, and strengthening of America’s agriculture infrastructure leading to increased American independence.