Absorption costing as an alternative to marginal costing

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Mind Map on Absorption costing as an alternative to marginal costing, created by jamescambell3 on 31/10/2013.
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Absorption costing as an alternative to marginal costing
  1. Absorption costing
    1. Allocation and apportionment
      1. absorbing indirect costs into product
        1. direct labour hours
          1. direct production hours/machine hours
            1. units produced
              1. percentage of sales value
                1. Percentage of direct cost
                  1. activity consumption
                  2. over- and under-absorption of overheads
                  3. Marginal costing
                    1. Why two contrasting approaches to costing?
                      1. Absorption and marginal costing
                      2. Under-/over-absorption of indirect costs
                        1. Allocation of indirect costs to production and service departments
                          1. Reciprocal allocation of indirect costs: service departments
                            1. Advantages and disadvantages of different costing approaches
                              1. Pricing decisions using absorption and marginal costing approaches
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