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Certificate in Activity Based Costing

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Activity Based Costing


About Activity Based Costing
Activity-based costing (ABC) is mostly used in the manufacturing industry since it enhances the reliability of cost data, hence producing nearly true costs and better classifying the costs incurred by the company during its production process.

Why is Activity Based Costing important?
Advantages of Activity-Based Costing
•    Provides realistic costs of manufacturing for specific products
•    Allocates manufacturing overhead more accurately to products and processes that use the activity
•    Identifies inefficient processes and targets improvements
•    Determines product profit margins more precisely
•    Discovers which processes have unnecessary and wasted costs
•    Offers better understanding and justification of costs in manufacturing overhead

Who should take the Activity Based Costing Exam?
•    Finance or Costing or Accounting professionals
•    Business owners
•    Entrepreneurs
•    Innovators
•    Anyone who wants to assess their Costing skills
•    Finance or Costing or Accounting managers and senior executives
•    Finance or Costing or Accounting consultants
•    Anyone interested in Activity Based Costing
•    Anyone who wants to learn Activity Based Costing
•    Students

Activity Based Costing Certification Course Outline

1. Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting
2. Material Cost
3. Labour Cost
4. Direct Expenses and Overheads
5. Activity Based Costing


Certificate in Activity Based Costing FAQs

  • Reducing capital costs
  • Decreasing obsolete inventory
  • Improvising rate of inventory turnover

This exam is intended for-

  • Students and graduates
  • Finance enthusiasts
  • Analysts
  • Managers
  • Other interested candidates

Activity-based costing is the process of assigning overhead and indirect costs like salaries and utilities to products and services. Moreover, the cost driver rate is used for calculating the amount of indirect and overhead costs related to a particular activity.

  • Strategic thinking
  • Technical understanding
  • Analytical skills
  • Ease with technology

  • Understanding managerial accounting and cost behaviour
  • What is cost-volume-profit analysis?
  • Understanding cost allocation
  • Relevant costs 
  • Benefits