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Explain Activity-Based Costing

Activity-Based Costing: It is a cost accounting process that measures the cost and performance of process related activities and cost objects. It assigns cost to cost objects, like products or customers, based on their utilization of activities. This identifies the contributory relationship of cost drivers to activities.

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