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Explain Cost Assignment

Cost Assignment: A procedure which identifies costs with activities, outputs, or another cost objects. In a wide sense, costs can be assigned to activities, processes, products, organizational divisions, and services. There are three techniques of cost assignment:

(i) Directly tracing the costs wherever economically feasible,

(ii) Cause-and-effect, and

(iii) Assigning costs on a reasonable and reliable basis.

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