Activity Based Costing (ABC)-Allocating Overhead Costs to Products By Mike Werner (ABC Video 3 of 3)

Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a method of allocating overhead (indirect) costs to products, services or business segments. When compared to traditional overhead allocation, ABC is viewed as more accurate method and if provides various other benefits.

In this video, probably the most important video in the series (video 3 of 3), we demonstrate how to allocate the cost of business activities to products and discuss the advantages of using ABC.

This video is the third in a series of three videos on ABC.

Introduction to Activity Based Costing – An Overview (ABC Video 1 of 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7di8...​

Activity Based Costing (ABC) Step by Step – Stage 1 Allocation – Allocating Overhead Costs to Activities (ABC Video 2 of 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFotX...​

This video: Activity Based Costing (ABC) Step-by-Step – Stage 2 Allocation - Allocating Overhead Costs to Products (ABC Video 3 of 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wsxo...​

If you would like to learn the basics of ABC, how it works, and its impact on product cost accuracy, management decisions and cost control, these videos are for you!

In the first video, we introduce the concept of how ABC and provide an overview of how it can be used to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to products.

In the second video we explore a simple example and demonstrate, step-by-step how overhead costs are allocated to smaller, activity cost pools. This is sometimes called ABC Stage 1 Allocation.

In this video, probably the most important video in the series, we continue the example and demonstrate, step-by-step how overhead costs are allocated to products using traditional overhead allocation and then, how manufacturing overhead activity cost pools are allocated to individual products using ABC. This is sometimes called ABC Stage 2 Allocation. Also in this video, we explore the impact of ABC on product cost accuracy, management decisions, and cost control.

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