The agricultural sector has always been characterized by a predominance of small firms. International competition and the consequent need for restraining costs are permanent challenges for farms. This paper performs an empirical investigation of cost behavior in agriculture using panel data...

This paper aims to suggest a model to reward a ‘dirty product’ which has the potential to offer sales promotion services to other ‘clean products’ in a multiple product firm. The paper suggests a model – economic benefit assignment (EBA) for apportionment of direct waste costs where a...

Cost systems have been shown to have developed considerably in recent years and activity-based costing (ABC) has been shown to be a contribution to cost management, particularly in service businesses. The public sector is composed to a very great extent of service functions, yet considerably...

In this article an empirical analyse of farming costs is performed within the frame of the activity based costing, employing a panel data set of Catalan farms. One the main conclusions of the study is that there is limited association for transaction and farm costs, especially in indirect costs....

The objective of this research was to study the Guideline for Cost Reduction Using Activity Based Costing for PST Concrete Company Limited. Data was collected from the corporate database such as the structure, job description, quality manual and interviews of executives and workers as well as...