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The Cost Accounting System in B-to-B Service Companies: Cost Centers or Activity-Based Costing?

GSTF Journal on Business Review

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Title The Cost Accounting System in B-to-B Service Companies: Cost Centers or Activity-Based Costing?
 
Creator Cugini, Antonella
Pilonato, Silvia
 
Description Service business-to-business (b-to-b) companiesprovide a wide range of services characterized by a high level ofvariability and complexity, very often due to the so called ‘servicecustomization’. In this context, the need to manage the trade-offbetween customer satisfaction and cost control emerges:therefore the choice of the right cost accounting system acquiresan important role in order to identify and manage the linksbetween the services offered to the customers and the costs oftheir production processes. In this article the two main costaccounting systems are analyzed (cost centers system andactivity-based costing system), focusing in particular on the needto identify the final object of cost measurement (servicecomponent). The activity-based costing system together with theintroduction of new cost containers (cost destinations), allows toaccurately calculate the costs of the services provided and toidentify the causal relationships between costs and services. Thearticle analyzes the case of a b-to-b company which supplies ITservices to banks.

 
 
Publisher GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR)
 
Date 2017-12-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/gbr/article/view/733
 
Source GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR); Vol 2 No 4 (2013): Journal on Business Review (GBR)
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/gbr/article/view/733/677
 
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