Background Estimating program costs when planning community-based mental health programs can be burden- some. Our aim was to retrospectively document the cost for the first year of planning and implementing Healthy Minds Healthy Communities (HMHC), a mental health promotion and prevention...

A drop in permanent income, higher education reform, rising salary costs, competitive pressure, the struggle to keep the balance between quality and tuition fees and other numerous challenges That higher education is facing, imposes the need for more sophisticated management models and...

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...

Objective: In recent years, management accounting in higher education institutions has undergone significant changes due to the various New Public Management (NPM) reforms. One of the management accounting tools that has been advised to HEIs is Activity-Based Costing (ABC). With this evolving...

Cigarettes or cigarettes are an object that can cause lung cancer when inhaled and are cylinders of paper measuring between 70 and 120 mm long (varies by country) with a diameter of about 10 mm containing chopped dry tobacco leaves. Cigarettes are burned at one end and allowed to smolder so that...

This paper contains the meaning a of Activity-Based-Costing and whether the application of this method can improve company performance and how this method affect the company. In the first part of this paper, it describes Activity-Based-Costing method and comparison between this method and...

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...

In this paper, we seek to provide empirical documentation of the effect of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) information on product and customer-related decisions made by managers in a company. Proponents of ABC argue that when an entity implements ABC, it reaps at least two important benefits:...

In their quest to assign capital appropriately, banks need the ability to compare two products in a way that objectively ascertains which is operationally riskier and by how much. Perceptions of changes in these risks can be used to predict future risk. Enter the prime metric to save the...

Activity-based costing system, commonly known as the ABC system, emerged as a costing method capable of overcoming the limitations of traditional costing systems in face of economic and technological developments, namely, the arbitrary and imprecise allocation of indirect costs from distortions...

This article examines cost accounting methods containing one or more activity-based costing (ABC) like dimensions. The objective is to analyze cost accounting proposals with, in part, a philosophy reminiscent ABC. The research purposes are to analyze the strategic dimension of the methods...

The application of mass customization in the food industry requires an appropriate system design to meet the customers' needs and wants. One of the systems is the modularization concept for product design. The application of the modularization concept will impact manufacturing systems. Modular...

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of the magnitude of overhead costs on the results of ABC and TDABC differences. A quantitative research method was used and data were gathered through an extensive literature review. A total of 170 articles that included both ABC and TDABC...

This case study deals with an unexpected budgetary loss of an online wine trader. It can serve both as a discussion basis in class as well as an exam for advanced Master students in management, marketing, and accounting. The case illustrates how variance analysis and Activity-based Costing help...

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 activity-based costing (TDABC) is a potential solution for profitability analysis, especially in industries with high overhead costs and a high number logistical or sales transactions, which would make the updating of a conventional ABC model costly. Despite a wide ranging TDABC...

The role of driver tracing is significantly expanded by identifying drivers unrelated to the volume of product produced. The use of both unit- and non-unit-based activity drivers increases the accuracy of cost assignments and the overall quality and relevance of cost information. Such cost...

This paper analyses the strategic management accounting concept with an instrumental point of view. We try to show in what extend the ABC developments could be included in a strategic approach of the management accounting and to test if the ABC is a relevant tool to drive the strategy. The first...