Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC)
  
  a costing system that identifies the various activities performed in a firm and uses multiple cost drivers (non-volume as well as the volume based cost drivers) to assign overhead costs (or indirect costs) to products. ABC recognizes the causal relationship of cost drivers with activities.
  
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