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	<description>How you can use Activity Based Costing in your business.</description>
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		<title>Typical Uses of Activity Based Costing</title>
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There are two main reasons why managers undertake ABC/M projects; explicitly to save costs – or more generally to provide support for decision making at both the strategic and operational level.
Initiatives to save costs may be variously described as downsizing, right-sizing, business process review, re-engineering, process improvement, shared services or a host of other titles. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/06/23/typical-uses-of-activity-based-costing/</link>
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		<title>Importance of Activity Based Costing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC methodology has been around since early 1980s, but it’s only relatively
recently that it has begun to gain acceptance. This recent enthusiasm for the
methodology is largely because the make-up of the cost base has changed over
the last 30 years or so.
Over the last 30 years there has been a proportionate decline in direct costs and
an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/06/02/importance-of-activity-based-costing/</link>
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		<title>What is Activity Based Costing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction to Activity Based Costing
In the modern business world, we are “blessed” with more management information than ever before. But how much of that information is really valuable or even useful? How much of the information that lands on our desks or arrives in our email in-boxes actually helps us to make decisions that will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/06/02/what-is-activity-based-costing/</link>
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		<title>Activity Based Costing Example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post contains a step-by-step illustration of a very simple ABC modeling exercise, which illustrates many of the aspects of the methodology. We will be using a credit control function as our example, for three main reasons:

• 1. Most organizations operate such a function, so it should be reasonably familiar;

• 2. Credit control is often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/06/02/activity-based-costing-example/</link>
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		<title>Activity Based Costing and Modern Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Activity Based Costing is not a new concept, and many organizations have struggled with it in the past. Activity Based Costing was primarily used by the manufacturing industry to monitor and reduce costs. Activity Based Costing has had a mixed reputation with many connecting the term with overly complex calculations and laborious manual measurements of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/05/22/activity-based-costing-and-modern-business-2/</link>
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		<title>Product and Customer Profitability Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview 
In every business Customers and Products have a “Cost to Serve*” associated with them. Activity based costing (ABC) is a powerful tool to determine the “Cost to Serve” by Product and Customer. Once this is calculated the true profitability by Product and Customer can be determined.
Understanding the true Product and Customer profitability allows companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/05/20/product-and-customer-profitability/</link>
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		<title>Activity Based Costing Implementation Issues</title>
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Introduction
The other two papers in the series cover an Introduction to Activity-Based 
Cost Management and Practical Applications of Activity-Based Costing.
All three papers in the series, as well as additional reference material on ABC
and other related subjects, are available from www.algsoftware.com.au 
When you implement activity based costing (ABC), remember that you won’t be
the first organization to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/05/20/activity-based-costing-implementation-issues/</link>
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		<title>Activity Based Costing in the Supply Chain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Challenge
This client understood its cost basis only at a consolidated level. It could not allocate costs to the various parts of its supply chain or channels and so could not reliably embark on process improvement programs.
The company had been under performing for two consecutive years.
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		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/05/01/abc-in-the-building-products-manufacturing-distribution-industry/</link>
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		<title>Activity Based Costing and the Automotive industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Challenge
This businesses profitability came under pressure due to the various external changes which had recently occurred in the automotive industry. These changes increased the Cost to Serve in this market and increased competition. These changes included:

Changes in Australian diesel fuel standards in 2007 meant the introduction of more car manufacturers offering diesel fuelled models. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/04/30/activity-based-costing-and-the-automotive-industry/</link>
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		<title>Activity Based Costing - Understanding Cost to Serve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses recognise that their customers, products and distribution channels consume different levels of resources and as such incur a varying “cost to serve”. The challenge lies in identifying which of these customers, products and channels are consuming relatively more costs and why. The ability to understand the cost to serve and the true net profitability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.activitybasedcosting.com.au/2008/04/14/activity-based-costing-understanding-the-cost-to-serve/</link>
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