Abstract

A fictional example illustrates how interdependencies among products in the production process, and the costs associated with those interdependencies, challenge the ability of cost accounting systems to generate decision-useful product cost information. The cost interdependency in the current example is a production-line change-over cost that is incurred to retool a machine whenever the production process changes from one product to another. Both marginal costing and full cost activity-based costing (ABC) are employed in an attempt to provide decision-relevant product-level information in connection with the decision to add a new product.

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Citation

Ziv, Amir. "Activity-Based Costing and Cost Interdependencies Among Products: The Denim Finishing Company." Issues in Accounting Education 20 (2005): 51-62.

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