Evoluce activity based costing

Abstract

The key task of company management is to assign the correct amount of costs to one product. Currently exists the many ways how can be allocate the company costs. Some of them are relatively ease and some of them are more sophisticated. The main goal of this paper is to discuss the usage of the “classical” costing methods and compare it with the concept ABC and its sorts. From this paper flows that “classical” methods cannot be marked as “bad” and the ABC can not be classified as the best method in every case. There is described the condition when classical methods are suitable and when the ABC methods are use more suitable, respectively the classical methods are unsuitable. Generally is possible to say that with growing number of products, customers, contracts or distribution channels and if we satisfy them through the same sorts of activities then the ABC is much better method of costing which provides the relevant and interesting data for company management.