QUESTION - Activity Based Costing

Your employer is contemplating changing the existing traditional costing systems used in the business to adopt activity based costing (ABC).

Prepare a business report outlining the traditional costing system and evaluate arguments for and against ABC.

Business Report Structures -

In business, the information provided in reports needs to be easy to find, and written in such a way that the client can understand it. This is one reason why reports are divided into sections clearly labelled with headings and sub-headings. Technical information which would clutter the body of the report is placed in the appendix.

The structure of a report and the purpose and contents of each section is shown below.

TITLE PAGE - report title, your name and submission date

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - overview of subject matter methods of analysis findings recommendations

TABLE OF CONTENTS - list of numbered sections in report and their page numbers

INTRODUCTION - terms of reference, outline of report's structure

BODY - headings and sub-headings which reflect the contents of each section. Includes information on method of data collection (if applicable), the findings of the report and discussion of findings in light of theory

CONCLUSION - states the major inferences that can be drawn from the discussion makes recommendations

REFERENCE LIST - list of reference material consulted during research for report

APPENDIX - information that supports your analysis but is not essential to its explanation

Attachment:- Assignment.rar