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abc systems are a major project requiring substantial resources. ...
abc data can be misinterpreted and must be used with care when making decisions
abc produces numbers, like product margins, that are at odd numbers produced by traditional costing systems. ... The advantages and limitations of ABC.
2a Advantages of ABC
The implementation of ABC systems in various companies has generated several benefits towards company efficiency. Barfield et al, (1994) states that ABC is an essence and should be implemented in companies that
• produce a wide variety of products or services,
• high overhead cost, not proportional to the individual products unit volume,
• significant automation that has made it increasingly complicated to allot overhead to products with intervention of direct labour or machine hour bases,
• difficult to interpret profit margins, hard to make products that result in profit and easy to make products that result in loss.
One of the perks that ABC provides is that it functions as an element to improve product cost to aid decision making in the management as well as to make several enhancement in the performance measurement procedure according to Barfield et al, (1994). ...
Since ABC is focused on controlling the activities, therefore there is a better control on the cost of these activities, and Barfield et al, (1994) also states that this is due to the cost reduction efforts that can be directed at specific cost drivers.
Approximate Word count = 960
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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