The objective of the article is to define rules for establishing a high quality costing system to measure the costs of products, customers, and other cost objects in a manufacturing enterprise. The pros and cons of all existing costing methods are discussed in the article, as are the methods...

This paper aims to investigate the expansion of an advanced management tool - Activity-based costing/management (ABC/M) among Czech companies and to map the level of its utilization. The empirical survey was carried out among 548 Czech medium-sized and large companies from various economic...

Traditional cost systems are no longer able to provide the appropriate information in line with the developments and changes of the contemporary and competitive business environments. However, with a vibrant change in the functioning of businesses today, such cost system features have also been...

One of the main problems of management profession is that there is not yet a corpus of theories and knowledge that can assist professionals to take adequate choices for solving the problems they actually have. Initially, we can assume that the inherent reasons for the explosion and diffusion of...

This paper examines cost accounting methods containing one or more activity-based costing (now ABC) like dimensions. The research reviews these methods since the early stages of ABC. The objective is to analyze cost accounting proposals with, in part, a philosophy reminiscent ABC. For all the...

The competition conditions are increasing with globalization, economic developments and high customer expectations; complicate sustaining and increasing of market share of the firms in the sectors. Increasing importance of digitalization, human, information and effective management; being...

Time Driven ABC (TDABC) which tries to address some of ABC’s shortcomings still remains unexplored in academic research. This paper focuses on the adoption of TDABC to assess the economic viability of two commonly used composting systems for organic wastes in New Zealand. The results support...

This research aims at surveying the traditional costing in comparison with the activity-based costing in the house furniture industry. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher feels constrained to formulate three hypotheses so as to examine and compare the cost prices of the products...