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Four Steps in Activity Based Costing

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What are the four steps in Activity Based Costing? Which do you believe is the most challenging and why?

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The Four Steps to Activity-Based Costing are:

1. Identify activities. Conduct an in-depth analysis of the operating processes of a task area. Each process may consist of one or more activities required by outputs.

2. Assign resource costs to activities in order to determine why costs were incurred. We categorize costs in three ways:
Direct-costs that can be traced directly to one output, i.e., the material costs
Indirect-costs are those that cannot be allocated to an individual ...

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