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Activity based costing

2.3 Calculating the full production cost per unit using ABC

There are five steps to calculating an activity based cost.

 Identify activities.

 Estimate cost pools.

 Identify cost drivers.

 Calculate cost driver rate = The total in the cost pool divided by the
total of the cost drivers.

 Charge overheads to products via cost driver rates.

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