Activity based costing attempts to allocate shared costs to individual units based on some type of cost allocation procedure.

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Activity based costing is a method of allocating shared costs to individual units based on the activities that consume resources. It attempts to assign costs based on a cause-and-effect relationship between costs and activities, rather than using arbitrary allocation methods.

Activity Based Costing Attempts to Allocate Shared Costs to Individual