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编辑本段A Active-matrix主动矩阵 Adapter cards适配卡 Advanced application高级应用 Analytical graph分析图表 Analyze分析 Animations动画 Application software 应用软件 Arithmetic operations算术运算 Audio-output device音频输出设备 Access time存取时间 access存取 accuracy准确性 ad network cookies广告网络信息记录软件 Add-ons 插件 Address地址 Agents代理 Analog signals模拟信号 Applets程序 Asynchronous communications port异步通信端口 Attachment附件 编辑本段B Bar code条形码 Bar code reader条形码读卡器 Basic application基础程序 Binary coding schemes二进制译码方案 Binary system二进制系统 Bit比特 Browser浏览器 Bus line总线 Backup tape cartridge units备份磁带盒单元 Bandwidth带宽 Bluetooth蓝牙 Broadband宽带 Business-to-business企业对企业电子商务 Business-to-consumer企业对消费者 Bus总线 编辑本段C Cables连线 Cell单元箱 Chain printer链式打印机 Character and recognition device字符标识识别设备 Chart图表 Chassis支架 Chip芯片 Clarity清晰度 Closed architecture封闭式体系结构 Column列 Combination key结合键 computer competency计算机能力 connectivity连接，结点 Continuous-speech recognition system连续语言识别系统 Control unit操纵单元 Cordless or wireless mouse无线鼠标 Cable modems有线调制解调器 carpal tunnel syndrome腕骨神经综合症 CD-ROM可记录光盘 CD-RW可重写光盘 CD-R可记录压缩光盘 Channel信道 Chat group谈话群组 chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs) ]氯氟甲烷 Client客户端 Coaxial cable同轴电缆 cold site冷网站 Commerce servers商业服务器 Communication channel信道 Communication systems信息系统 Compact disc rewritable Compact disc光盘 computer abuse amendments act of 19941994计算机滥用法案 computer crime计算机犯罪 computer ethics计算机道德 computer fraud and abuse act of 1986计算机欺诈和滥用法案 computer matching and privacy protection act of 1988计算机查找和隐私保护法案 Computer network计算机网络 computer support specialist计算机支持专家 computer technician计算机技术人员 computer trainer计算机教师 Connection device连接设备 Connectivity连接 Consumer-to-consumer个人对个人 cookies-cutter programs信息记录截取程序 cookies信息记录程序 cracker解密高手 cumulative trauma disorder积累性损伤错乱 Cybercash电子现金 Cyberspace计算机空间 cynic愤世嫉俗者 编辑本段D Database数据库 database files数据库文件 Database manager数据库管理 Data bus数据总线 Data projector数码放映机 Desktop system unit台式电脑系统单元 Destination file目标文件 Digital cameras数码照相机 Digital notebooks数字笔记本 Digital bideo camera数码摄影机 Discrete-speech recognition system不连续语言识别系统 Document文档 document files文档文件 Dot-matrix printer点矩阵式打印机 Dual-scan monitor双向扫描显示器 Dumb terminal非智能终端 data security数据安全 Data transmission specifications数据传输说明 database administrator数据库管理员 Dataplay数字播放器 Demodulation解调 denial of service attack拒绝服务攻击 Dial-up service拨号服务 Digital cash数字现金 Digital signals数字信号 Digital subscriber line数字用户线路 Digital versatile disc数字化通用磁盘 Digital video disc数字化视频光盘 Direct access直接存取 Directory search目录搜索 disaster recovery plan灾难恢复计划 Disk caching磁盘驱动器高速缓存 Diskette磁盘 Disk磁碟 Distributed data processing system分部数据处理系统 Distributed processing分布处理 Domain code域代码 Downloading下载 DVD 数字化通用磁盘 DVD-R 可写DVD DVD-RAM DVD随机存取器 DVD-ROM 只读DVD 编辑本段E e-book电子阅读器 Expansion cards扩展卡 end user终端用户 e-cash电子现金 e-commerce电子商务 electronic cash电子现金 electronic commerce电子商务 electronic communications privacy act of1986电子通信隐私法案 encrypting加密术 energy star能源之星 Enterprise computing企业计算化 environment环境 Erasable optical disks可擦除式光盘 ergonomics人类工程学 ethics道德规范 External modem外置调制解调器 extranet企业外部网 编辑本段F Fax machine传真机 Field域 Find搜索 FireWire port火线端口 Firmware固件 Flash RAM闪存 Flatbed scanner台式扫描器 Flat-panel monitor纯平显示器 floppy disk软盘 Formatting toolbar格式化工具条 Formula公式 Function函数 fair credit reporting act of 1970公平信用报告法案 Fiber-optic cable光纤电缆 File compression文件压缩 File decompression文件解压缩 filter过滤 firewall防火墙 firewall防火墙 Fixed disk固定硬盘 Flash memory闪存 Flexible disk可折叠磁盘 Floppies磁盘 Floppy-disk cartridge磁盘盒 Formatting格式化 freedom of information act of 1970信息自由法案 frequency频率 frustrated受挫折 Full-duplex communication全双通通信 编辑本段G General-purpose application通用运用程序 Gigahertz千兆赫 Graphic tablet绘图板 green pc绿色个人计算机 Grop by 排序 编辑本段H handheld computer手提电脑 Hard copy硬拷贝 hard disk硬盘 hardware硬件 Help帮助 Host computer主机 Home page主页 Hyperlink超链接 hacker黑客 Half-duplex communication半双通通信 Hard-disk cartridge硬盘盒 Hard-disk pack硬盘组 Head crash磁头碰撞 header标题 help desk specialist帮助办公专家 helper applications帮助软件 Hierarchical network层次型网络 history file历史文件 hits匹配记录 horizontal portal横向用户 hot site热网站 Hybrid network混合网络 编辑本段I Image capturing device图像获取设备 information technology信息技术 Ink-jet printer墨水喷射印刷机 Integrated package综合性组件 Intelligent terminal智能终端设备 Intergrated circuit集成电路 Interface cards接口卡 Internal modem内部调制解调器 internet telephony网络电话 internet terminal互联网终端 Identification识别 i-drive网络硬盘驱动器 illusion of anonymity匿名幻想 index search索引搜索 information pushers信息推送器 initializing 初始化 instant messaging计时信息 internal hard disk内置硬盘 Internet hard drive 网络硬盘驱动器 intranet企业内部网 编辑本段J joystick操纵杆 编辑本段K keyword search关键字搜索 编辑本段L laser printer激光打印机 Layout files版式文件 Light pen光笔 Locate定位 Logical operations逻辑运算 Lands凸面 Line of sight communication视影通信 Low bandwidth低带宽 lurking潜伏 编辑本段M Main board主板 Mark sensing标志检测 Mechanical mouse机械鼠标 Memory内存 Menu菜单 Menu bar菜单条 Microprocessor微处理器 Microseconds微秒 Modem card调制解调器 Monitor显示器 Motherboard主板 Mouse 鼠标 Multifunctional device多功能设备 Magnetic tape reels磁带卷 Magnetic tape streamers磁带条 mailing list邮件列表 Medium band媒质带宽 metasearch engine整合搜索引擎 Microwave微波 Modem解调器 Modulation解调 编辑本段N Net PC网络计算机 Network adapter card网卡 Network personal computer网络个人电脑 Network terminal 网络终端 Notebook computer笔记本电脑 Notebook system unit笔记本系统单元 Numeric entry数字输入 national information infrastructure protection act of1996国际信息保护法案 national service provider全国性服务供应商 Network architecture网络体系结构 Network bridge网桥 Network gateway网关 network manager网络管理员 newsgroup新闻组 no electronic theft act of1997无电子盗窃法 Node节点 Nonvolatile storage非易失性存储 编辑本段O Object embedding对象嵌入 Object linking目标链接 Open architecture开放式体系结构 Operation System 操作系统 Optical disk光盘 Optical mouse光电鼠标 Optical scanner光电扫描仪 Outline大纲 off-line browsers离线浏览器 Online storage联机存储 编辑本段P palmtop computer掌上电脑 Parallel ports并行端口 Passive-matrix被动矩阵 PC card个人计算机卡 Personal laser printer个人激光打印机 Personal video recorder card个人视频记录卡 Photo printer照片打印机 Pixel像素 Platform scanner平版式扫描仪 Plotter绘图仪 Plug and play即插即用 Plug-in boards插件卡 Pointer指示器 Pointing stick指示棍 Port端口 Portable scanner便携式扫描仪 Presentation files演示文稿 Presentation graphics电子文稿程序 Primary storage主存 Procedures规程 Processor处理机 Programming control lanugage程序控制语言 Packets数据包 Parallel data transmission平行数据传输 Peer-to-peer network system点对点网络系统 person-person auction site个人对个人拍卖站点 physical security物理安全 Pits凹面 plug-in插件程序 Polling轮询 privacy隐私权 proactive主动地 programmer程序员 Protocols协议 provider供应商 proxy server代理服务 pull products推取程序 push products推送程序 编辑本段R RAM cache随机高速缓冲器 Range范围 Record记录 Relational database关系数据库 Replace替换 Resolution分辨率 Row行 Read-only只读 Reformatting重组 regional service provider区域性服务供应商 repetitive motion injury反复性动作损伤 reverse directory反向目录 right to financial privacy act of 1979财产隐私法案 Ring network环形网 编辑本段S Scanner扫描器 Search查找 Secondary storage device辅助存储设备 Semiconductor半导体 Serial ports串行端口 Server服务器 Shared laser printer共享激光打印机 Sheet表格 Silicon chip硅片 Slots插槽 Smart card智能卡 Soft copy软拷贝 Software suite软件协议 Sorting排序 Source file源文件 Special-purpose application专用文件 Spreadsheet电子数据表 Standard toolbar标准工具栏 Supercomputer巨型机 System cabine 系统箱 System clock时钟 System software系统软件 Satellite/air connection services卫星无线连接服务 search engines搜索引擎 search providers搜索供应者 search services 搜索服务器 Sectors扇区 security安全 Sending and receiving devices发送接收设备 Sequential access顺序存取 Serial data transmission单向通信 signature line签名档 snoopware监控软件 software copyright act of1980软件版权法案 software piracy软件盗版 Solid-state storage固态存储器 specialized search engine专用搜索引擎 spiders网页爬虫 spike尖峰电压 Star network星型网 Strategy方案 subject主题 subscription address预定地址 Superdisk超级磁盘 surfing网上冲浪 surge protector浪涌保护器 systems analyst系统分析师 编辑本段T Table二维表 Telephony电话学 Television boards电视扩展卡 Terminal 终端 Template模板 Text entry文本输入 Thermal printer 热印刷 Thin client瘦客 Toggle key触发键 Toolbar工具栏 Touch screen触摸屏 Trackball追踪球 TV tuner card电视调谐卡 Two-state system双状态系统 technical writer技术协作者 technostress重压技术 telnet远程登录 Time-sharing system分时系统 Topology拓扑结构 Tracks磁道 traditional cookies传统的信息记录程序 Twisted pair双绞 编辑本段U Unicode统一字符标准 uploading上传 usenet世界性新闻组网络 编辑本段V Virtual memory虚拟内存 Video display screen视频显示屏 Voice recognition system声音识别系统 vertical portal纵向门户 video privacy protection act of 1988视频隐私权保护法案 virus checker病毒检测程序 virus病毒 Voiceband音频带宽 Volatile storage易失性存储 voltage surge电涌 编辑本段W Wand reader 条形码读入 Web 网络 Web appliance 环球网设备 Web page网页 Web site address网络地址 Web terminal环球网终端 Webcam摄像头 What-if analysis假定分析 Wireless revolution无线革命 Word字长 Word processing文字处理 Word wrap自动换行 Worksheet file 工作文件 web auctions网上拍卖 web broadcasters网络广播 web portals门户网站 web sites网站 web storefront creation packages网上商店创建包 web storefronts网上商店 web utilities网上应用程序 web-downloading utilities网页下载应用程序 webmaster web站点管理员 web万维网 Wireless modems无线调制解调器 wireless service provider无线服务供应商 world wide web万维网 worm蠕虫病毒 Write-protect notch写保护口 编辑本段其他缩写 DVD digital bersatile 数字化通用光盘 IT information technology信息技术 CD compact disc 压缩盘 PDA personal digital assistant个人数字助理 RAM random access memory随机存储器 WWW World Wide Web 万维网 DBMS database management system数据库管理系统 HTML Hypertext Markup Language超文本标示语言 OLE object linking and embedding对象链接入 SQL structured query language结构化查询语言 URL uniform resouice locator统一资源定位器 AGP accelerated graphics port加速图形接口 ALU arithmetic-logic unit算术逻辑单元 CPU central processing unit中央处理器 CMOS complementary metal-oxide semiconductor互补金属氧化物半导体 CISC complex instruction set computer复杂指令集计算机 HPSB high performance serial bus高性能串行总线 ISA industry standard architecture工业标准结构体系 PCI peripheral component interconnect外部设备互连总线 PCMCIA Personal Memory Card International Association个人计算机存储卡国际协会 RAM random-access memory随机存储器 ROM read-only memory只读存储器 USB universal serial bus通用串行总线 CRT cathode-ray tube阴极射线管 HDTV high-definition television高清晰度电视 LCD liquid crystal display monitor液晶显示器 MICRmagnetic-ink character recognition磁墨水字符识别器 OCR optical-character recognition光电字符识别器 OMR optical-mark recognition光标阅读器 TFT thin film transistor monitor薄膜晶体管显示器 Zip disk压缩磁盘 Domain name system（DNS）域名服务器 file transfer protocol(FTP)文件传送协议 hypertext markup language(HTML)超文本链接标识语言 Local area network（LAN）局域网 internet relay chat(IRC)互联网多线交谈 Metropolitan area network(MAN)城域网 Network operation system(NOS)网络操作系统 uniform resource locator(URL)统一资源定位器 Wide area network(WAN)广域网 Web server / Web 服务器 well-connected / 连接良好 well-known services / 公认的服务 wide area network, WAN / 广域网 wildcard character / 通配符 wildcarding / 通配符方式 window menu / 窗口菜单 Windows 2000 Server File and Print Servers for Macintosh / Windows 2000 Server 的 Macintosh 文件与打印服务器 Windows 2000 Task Manager / Windows 2000 任务管理器 Windows Internet Name Service, WINS / Windows Internet 命名服务 Windows Management Instrumentation, WMI / Windows 管理规范 Windows Media Services / Windows Media 服务 WINS, Windows Internet Name Service / Windows Internet 命名服务 WINS proxy / WINS 代理 WINS resource / WINS 资源 Winsock wireless communication / 无线通讯 WMI, Windows Management Instrumentation / Windows 管理规范 workgroup / 工作组 X.509v3 certificate / X.509/ 证书 XOR, exclusive OR / 异或 zone / 区域 zone list / 区域列表 zone transfer / 区域传送

Account 帐户Accounting system 会计系统 American Accounting Association 美国会计协会 American Institute of CPAs 美国注册会计师协会 Audit 审计 Balance sheet 资产负债表 Bookkeepking 簿记 Cash flow prospects 现金流量预测 Certificate in Internal Auditing 内部审计证书 Certificate in Management Accounting 管理会计证书 Certificate Public Accountant注册会计师 Cost accounting 成本会计 External users 外部使用者 Financial accounting 财务会计 Financial Accounting Standards Board 财务会计准则委员会 Financial forecast 财务预测 Generally accepted accounting principles 公认会计原则 General-purpose information 通用目的信息Government Accounting Office 政府会计办公室 Income statement 损益表 Institute of Internal Auditors 内部审计师协会 Institute of Management Accountants 管理会计师协会 Integrity 整合性 Internal auditing 内部审计 Internal control structure 内部控制结构 Internal Revenue Service 国内收入署 Internal users 内部使用者 Management accounting 管理会计 Return of investment 投资回报 Return on investment 投资报酬 Securities and Exchange Commission 证券交易委员会 Statement of cash flow 现金流量表 Statement of financial position 财务状况表 Tax accounting 税务会计 Accounting equation 会计等式 Articulation 勾稽关系 Assets 资产 Business entity 企业个体 Capital stock 股本 Corporation 公司 Cost principle 成本原则 Creditor 债权人 Deflation 通货紧缩 Disclosure 批露 Expenses 费用 Financial statement 财务报表 Financial activities 筹资活动 Going-concern assumption 持续经营假设Inflation 通货膨涨 Investing activities 投资活动 Liabilities 负债 Negative cash flow 负现金流量 Operating activities 经营活动 Owner's equity 所有者权益 Partnership 合伙企业 Positive cash flow 正现金流量 Retained earning 留存利润 Revenue 收入 Sole proprietorship 独资企业 Solvency 清偿能力 Stable-dollar assumption 稳定货币假设 Stockholders 股东 Stockholders' equity 股东权益 Window dressing 门面粉饰

the management accounting will perform an important role when let the enterprise more profitable and competitive.

To support compliance with financial reportingrequirements, a company’s traditional cost-accountingsystem is often articulated with its general ledgersystem. In essence, this linkage is grounded in costallocation. Typically, costs are allocated for either valuationpurposes (i.e., financial statements for externaluses) or decision-making purposes (i.e., internal uses)or both. However, in certain instances costs also areallocated for cost-reimbursement purposes (e.g., hospitalsand defense contractors).The traditional approach to cost-allocation consistsof three basic steps: accumulate costs within aproduction or nonproduction department; allocatenonproduction department costs to production departments;and allocate the resulting (revised) productiondepartment costs to various products, services, or customers.Costs derived from this traditional allocationapproach suffer from several defects that can result indistorted costs for decision-making purposes. Forexample, the traditional approach allocates the cost ofidle capacity to products. Accordingly, such productsare charged for resources that they did not use.Seeking to remedy such distortions, many companieshave adopted a different cost-allocation approachcalled activity-based costing (ABC).WHAT IS ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING?In contrast to traditional cost-accounting systems,ABC systems first accumulate overhead costs for eachorganizational activity, and then assign the costs of theactivities to the products, services, or customers (costobjects) causing that activity. As one might expect, themost critical aspect of ABC is activity analysis.Activity analysis is the processes of identifying appropriateoutput measures of activities and resources (costdrivers) and their effects on the costs of making aproduct or providing a service. Significantly, as discussedin the next section, activity analysis providesthe foundation for remedying the distortions inherentin traditional cost-accounting systems.TRADITIONAL COST-ACCOUNTINGSYSTEMS VERSUS ABCGeared toward compliance with financial reportingrequirements, traditional cost-accounting systemsoften allocate costs based on single-volume measuressuch as direct-labor hours, direct-labor costs, ormachine hours. While using a single volume measureas an overall cost driver seldom meets the cause-andeffectcriterion desired in cost allocation, it provides arelatively cheap and convenient means of complyingwith financial reporting requirements.In contrast to traditional cost-accounting systems,ABC systems are not inherently constrained by thetenets of financial reporting requirements. Rather,ABC systems have the inherent flexibility to providespecial reports to facilitate management decisionsregarding the costs of activities undertaken to design,produce, sell, and deliver a company’s products orservices. At the heart of this flexibility is the fact thatABC systems focus on accumulating costs via several key activities, whereas traditional cost allocationfocuses on accumulating costs via organizationalunits. By focusing on specific activities, ABC systemsprovide superior cost allocation information—especiallywhen costs are caused by non-volume-basedcost drivers. Even so, traditional cost-accounting systemswill continue to be used to satisfy conventionalfinancial reporting requirements. ABC systems willcontinue to supplement, rather than replace, traditionalcost-accounting systems.Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity resource to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each: it assigns more indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs.In this way an organization can precisely estimate the cost of its individual products and services for the purposes of identifying and eliminating those which are unprofitable and lowering the prices of those which are overpriced.In a business organization, the ABC methodology assigns an organization's resource costs through activities to the products and services provided to its customers. It is generally used as a tool for understanding product and customer cost and profitability. As such, ABC has predominantly been used to support strategic decisions such as pricing, outsourcing and identification and measurement of process improvement initiatives.Activity-Based Costing (ABC) arose in the 1980s from the increasing lack of relevance of traditional cost accounting methods. The traditional cost accounting methods were designed around 1870 - 1920 and in those days industry was labor intensive, there was no automation, the product variety was small and the overhead costs in companies were generally very low compared to today. However, from the 1960s - particularly 1980s - this changed rapidly. For these reasons, and more, traditional cost accounting has been called everything from 'number 1 enemy of production' and questions whether it is 'an asset or a liability' have been raised.The question of course is whether ABC has overcome these deficiencies or not? It has. In fact, ABC has been called one of the most important management innovations the last hundred years. So what is really the difference between ABC and traditional cost accounting methods? Despite the enormous difference in performance, there is three major differences:In traditional cost accounting it is assumed that cost objects consume resources whereas in ABC it is assumed that cost objects consume activities. Traditional cost accounting mostly utilizes volume related allocation bases while ABC uses drivers at various levels. Traditional cost accounting is structure-oriented whereas ABC is process-oriented. This is discussed in more detail in the subsequent sections and illustrated below. But first, the direction of the arrows are different because ABC brings detailed information from the processes up to assess costs and manage capacity on many levels whereas traditional cost accounting methods simply allocate costs, or capacity to be correct, down onto the cost objects without considering any 'cause and effect' relations.Consumption of resources versus consumption of activitiesABC acknowledges that you cannot manage costs, you can only managed what is being done and then costs will change as a consequence. In traditional cost accounting, however, the underlying assumption is that costs can be managed, but as most managers have found out the hard way - managing costs is almost impossible. The benefit of the ABC mindset is that it opens up for a much wider array of measures when it comes to improving productivity. By investigating systematically what is being done, i.e. the activities, one will not only be able to identify surplus capacity if it occurs, but also lack of capacity and misallocation of capacity. A result of this might be that costs are cut the traditional way, but it might as well lead to a reallocation of capacity to where it is most needed which will yield high productivity more effectively than the traditional way.Volume related allocation bases versus drivers at many levelsDue to the historic background of traditional cost accounting methods, they tend to use direct labor - or other volume related allocation bases - for cost assignment purposes. But as overhead has grown and new technologies have come, it goes without saying that assigning costs based on only 5 - 15% (in most companies) of total costs is highly risky. In fact, the incurred errors are up to several hundred percent!In ABC, however, costs are assigned according to the 'cause and effect' relationship between activities (the actual process) and cost objects, which is captured using drivers. The drivers are therefore not allocation bases in the traditional sense, although they work the same way mathematically - drivers are estimates of actual cost behavior and can therefore also be used to identify, or they are themselves, the critical cost factors. Because the drivers are related to the actual processes, they occur on several levels. The four most common levels are;Unit level. Unit level drivers are triggered for every unit that is being produced. For example, for a man and a machine that produces one unit at a time, the associated direct labor will be a unit level cost driver. This is therefore a volume related driver similar to the traditional allocation bases. Batch level. Batch level drivers are triggered for every batch produced. A good example of that is production planning, because the planning is done for each and every batch regardless of the size of the batch. Here, number of batches can be a good driver. Product level. Product level drivers are triggered for every product regardless of the number of units and batches produced. These drivers occur by the sole existence of a product. A good example of a driver is the number of product development hours per product so that the more product development hours a product triggers, the more product development costs should be assigned to that product. Costing systems are information systems. They require a specific type of information such as direct labour hours and units produced, to be of value. It is from the input data that product costs and other information are determined according to the specific costing system defined methodology. The results obtained would depend on the costing system used, since the same input data could be used in different ways. In this case the traditional costing system or an activity based costing system.A costing system should provide information to help minimise waste, but should not be wasteful in itself. In other words, the resources required to design, implement and maintain a costing system should be less than the benefit derived from the use of the system.In order to compare the two systems it is necessary to understand the working of both system.The Traditional Costing SystemIt is a well-known fact that the traditional costing systems utilise a single, volume-based cost driver. This is the reason why the traditional product costing system distorts the cost of products. In most cases this type of costing system assigns the overhead costs to products on the basis of their relative usage of direct labour. For this reason traditional cost systems often report inaccurate product costs. The problem is in the underlying methodology of the traditional costing systems. They adhere to the assumption that products cause cost. Each time a unit of product is manufactured, it is assumed that cost is incurred. This assumption makes sense for certain direct costs. The assumption does not work for activities that are not performed directly on the product units. The problem with this approach is that for most overhead activities, the proportions of the activity actually consumed by a specific product, does not universally correspond with a single cost driver. This holds true for most modern companies where products are produced by a combination of manpower and technology. The traditional cost accounting model employs a volume-based driver, such as direct labour hours or machine hours for the assignment of all manufacturing overhead costs. The conventional cost accounting model ends up with a cost of goods sold based on absorption costing and includes only product costs as defined in financial accounting.Fundamentally, traditional costing systems try to assign cost directly to products, rather than to activities first and then from the activities to product units. The typical cost report gives information on what is spent, but not why it is spent. When overhead costs are cut in order to reduce total costs it is the symptoms that are treated and not the cause. In many cases the cutting of overheads is more likely to lead to a reduction in the quality of the products than to the long term reduction of the cost.The separation of traceable and fixed cost is crucial when doing segmented reporting of costs. This is important, since traceable fixed costs are booked to departments while common fixed costs are pooled in the traditional costing system approach. The guidelines suggested for using the traditional approach is to use a broad, general guideline in determining which costs are traceable. This approach has obvious inherent inaccuracies.The traditional costing systems only have one or a few indirect cost pools for each department or whole plant. The application of costs in the traditional costing system is normally based on an indirect cost driver and that the indirect cost applications are often financially based.The traditional approach to costing of products fundamentally utilises a system whereby the total costs to produce a number of products are divided amongst the various products. By making use of the traditional costing system, it thus means that all the costs incurred have to be allocated to one or other product.Activity Based Costing (ABC)The underlying assumption of activity based costing is entirely different from that of conventional costing systems. The conventional costing system assumes that products cause costs. Activity based costing systems have activities as the fundamental cost objects. Activity based costing systems also assumes that activities cause costs and that cost objects create the demand for activities. Activity based costing is a different approach and improves control of overheads by a cost/cause relationship, that are activity and cost. The system is flexible enough to relate costs to customers, processors, management responsibility and not just products.As the name suggests, activity based costing is a system that focuses on activities as the basic cost objects and uses the costs of these activities as building blocks for compiling the costs of other cost objects. The use of an activity based costing system can also help a company to develop a way to analyse and justify manufacturing cycle-time improvements.The use of activity based costing according evolved over the last few years from a more accurate method of product costing, to a more scientific method of cost reduction, to an all-embracing advanced planning, monitoring and control system, encompassing:Activity based costingActivity based cost managementActivity-based budgetingActivity reportingPerformance measurement and benchmarkingContinuous improvementProduct/customer and sector profitabilityBusiness process re-engineering.It is therefore important to note that in activity based costing, costs are assigned to activities. The assignment is based on the consumption of resources utilised.In utilising activity based costing, costs are collected for each activity as an independent cost object. These costs are then applied to commodities as they undergo the different activities. The final product cost is built up from the costs of the specific activities that each product line has undergone. In other words activity based costing assigns activity costs to cost objects based on activity drivers that accurately measures consumption of the activity.When utilizing the activity based costing system managers attempt to assign the costs of significant activities to the products that causes those costs to be incurred. This results in activity based costing providing sufficient information to allow managers to know which activities cause the use of resources.The most common approaches to activity based costing start with some kind of activity analysis, followed by activity based costing which is then used to create performance improvement ideas. Activity based costing is thus the tracking of activity costs to cost objects. These cost objects can be products, services, projects, customers or distribution channels.When applied correctly activity based costing will diminish the issue of cost distortion by forming a cost pool for each activity that can be isolated as a cost driver. Performance improvement techniques should also include cost driver analysis, activity grouping, performance evaluation and activity based costing. A cost driver is defined as the root cause or reason for an activity to occur. It is important to note that a cost driver should not be misinterpreted as an output measure. An output measure is a magnitude measure measuring how many outputs an activity produces. It is the output measure that should be followed to the cost object.In an activity based costing system, overhead costs are assigned to a large number of cost pools that represent the most significant activities involved in the production process. It is also true that activity based costing systems utilises several indirect cost pools because of the many activity areas.After allocating costs to the activity cost pools, cost drivers are identified that are suitable for each cost pool. Then the overhead costs are assigned from each activity cost pool to each production job in proportion to the amount of activity used up by the job. In other words, activity based costing assigns activity costs to cost objects based on activity drivers that accurately measures consumption of the activity.The improved product costing accuracy in activity based costing comes from the identification of a large number of activity cost pools and the isolation of a suitable cost driver for each activity.When using activity based costing the focal point is on resources and the activities that cause them. There should therefore no longer be a division between product and period costs as defined by financial accounting.The importance of the correct activity classification is underlined in that activity classification should always include some kind of value-added / non value-added analysis and more importantly all staff involved in classifying activities should understand these definitions. The popular definition of a non-value added activity is anything that can be eliminated without detriment to the final product. Although activity classification is subjective, it is only a tool to help with performance improvement.ConclusionWhilst activity based costing is not a perfect science it does offer a sense of financial pragmatism to the wider management process. The initial premise that activity analysis can highlight waste (non-value adding) and bureaucracy (secondary or support activities), activity based techniques have been used for straightforward cost reduction, process improvement and re-engineering, benchmarking, performance measurement and a variety of related exercises including activity or priority based budgeting.The three generations of activity based costing supplement and complement each other and one system should not be considered the replacement of either of the other two. The first generation focuses on product costing, the second generation on process costing or performance evaluation, and the third generation on value chain costing to be used in strategic analysis. All three use the same activities database; differences lie in types of linkage and the extent to which data on activities are to be gathered.Activity based costing forces the manager to investigate fixed costs very closely. It therefore helps management to identify areas of inefficiency as well as recognise costs which we could have been conceived fixed but, which are in fact, variable or semi-variable to specific products.这里有个详细的课程讲解：

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