Two Students in a Cost Accounting Class Were Arguing About

question 74

Essay

Two students in a cost accounting class were arguing about the need to gather good unit cost information for manufacturing. One student, Travis, maintained that a firm producing and selling large quantities of relatively few products would have no need for an ABC system, since an ABC system is usually more expensive to implement than a volume-based system. Alicia countered that even firms with high-volume homogeneous products could benefit from a cost management technique like activity-based costing (ABC).
Required:
Choose sides in this discussion and present justifications for your choice.

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