What are the main costs and limitations of implementing ABC systems?

What are the main costs and limitations of implementing ABC systems?



The main costs and limitations of ABC are the measurements necessary to implement the systems. Even basic ABC systems require many calculations to determine costs of products and services. Activity-cost rates often need to be updated regularly. Very detailed ABC systems are costly to operate and difficult to understand. Sometimes the allocations necessary to calculate activity costs often result in activity-cost pools and quantities of cost-allocation bases being measured with error. When measurement errors are large, activity-cost information can be misleading.


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