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After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

5-1Compute product costs under a traditional, volume-based product-costing system.
5-2Explain how an activity-based costing system operates, including the use of a two-stage procedure for cost assignment, the identification of activity cost pools, and the selection of cost drivers.
5-3Explain the concept of cost levels, including unit-level, batch-level, product-sustaining-level, and facility-level costs.
5-4Compute product costs under an activity-based costing system.
5-5Explain why traditional, volume-based costing systems tend to distort product costs.
5-6Explain three criteria for selecting cost drivers.
5-7Discuss several key issues in activity-based costing, including data collection and storyboarding.
5-8Explain the concepts of activity-based management and two-dimensional ABC.
5-9Explain and execute a customer-profitability analysis.
5-10Understand and discuss how activity-based costing is used in service-industry organizations.







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