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cost and activity accounting

What is meant by cost and activity accounting?

"Cost and activity accounting" is a managerial accounting tool used to capture, analyze, and control the costs and performance of a company.

Typical functions of software in the "cost and activity accounting" domain include:

  1. Cost Type Accounting: Capturing and analyzing various cost types such as material costs, labor costs, operating expenses, etc.

  2. Cost Center Accounting: Allocating the incurred costs to different cost centers or departments within the company to increase cost accountability.

  3. Cost Object Accounting: Assigning costs to individual products, services, or projects to determine the profitability of each product or service.

  4. Overhead Cost Allocation: Distributing overhead costs to cost objects using allocation methods to allocate overhead costs to individual products or services.

  5. Standard Costing: Planning and controlling costs using standard cost comparisons and variance analysis to monitor cost trends in the company.

  6. Contribution Margin Analysis: Calculating the contribution margins of products or services to determine their contribution to covering fixed costs and achieving company profits.

  7. Reporting and Analysis: Generating reports and analyses on cost structures, cost drivers, and profitability to enable informed decision-making at the management level.

 

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The function / module cost and activity accounting belongs to:

Cost and performance accounting

Software solutions with function or module cost and activity accounting:

PROJEKTA
 
 
 
 
 
 
Project Software - ERP for Service Providers
Scopevisio
Scopevisio
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cloud enterprise software for the mid-market companies
myPARM - Multi-project management software
Multi-project management and PPM software
VEDA HR
 
 
 
 
 
 
Standard business software
elKomPLAN
 
 
 
 
 
 
Software for integrated corporate planning, reporting and group consolidation
OCT Integration
OCT Integration
 
 
 
 
 
 
Automated data integration from all ERP systems: DATEV, SAP and many more.
PST-BI
 
 
 
 
 
 
Data warehouse, cost accounting, planning, reporting, business analytics for SMEs
TOPIX Financial Accounting
Powerful accounting software for SMEs
elKomBI
elKomBI
 
 
 
 
 
 
Controlling software for analysis, planning and reporting with IBM Planning Analytics TM1
Project planning, project steering, project controlling, time management - 100% web based
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