Fifth edition Alnoor Bhimani Charles T. Horngren Srikant M. Datar Madhav V. Rajan Farah Ahamed


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To provide information for economic decisions
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To motivate managers and employees
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To justify costs or calculate reimbursement
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To measure income and assets for meeting external regulatory and legal reporting obligations.
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Cost–benefit considerations can affect costing choices in several ways
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Classifying some immaterial costs as indirect when they could, at high cost, be traced to products, services or customers as direct costs.
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Using a small number of indirect-cost pools when, at high cost, an increased number of indirect-cost pools would provide more homogeneous cost pools.


Bhimani, Horngren, Datar and Rajan, Management and Cost Accounting, 5
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Using allocation bases that are readily available (or can be collected at low cost) when, at high cost, more appropriate cost-allocation bases could be developed.

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