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



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Activity-based budgeting
Activity-based budgeting (ABB) is a natural complement to activity-based costing (ABC. Steps
1 (budgeted cost of activity) and 2 (budgeted demand for activity) are used to develop the indirect cost allocation rate for each activity, used in both ABB (where the rate is multiplied by expected usage) and ABC (where the rate is multiplied by actual or standard usage.


Bhimani, Horngren, Datar and Rajan, Management and Cost Accounting, 5
th
Edition, Instructor’s Manual
© Pearson Education Limited 2012
ABB is helpful for ex ante and ex post cost control. ABB reveals the costs of different activities so that managers can attempt to reduce consumption of the cost drivers before costs are committed or locked in. After the incurrence of actual costs, ABB can pinpoint activities where
(1) the actual cost rate of the activity was higher than budgeted or (2) the usage of the cost driver was higher than budgeted.

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