Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the shortcomings of traditional cost accounting techniques in lean companies and then it seeks to analyse the validity and convenience of value stream costing (VSC) as a tool in a company that has adopted some concepts of lean manufacturing....

The Activity-Based Management (ABM) is a managerial accounting method based on an innovative cost determination as it attributes costs to the different activities performed within the company value chain for then sharing them between the different outputs. The ABM, in fact, is based on the...