However, a recent study by Stratton et al. (2009)
[57] showed that the use of ABC as a costing tool is still
relevant among its adopters. Even managers of non
ABC firms desire the implementation of ABC and
consider it an ideal costing tool. He mentioned that such
desirability and consideration of ABC projects an
expected increase in ABC adoption in the future
too.According to Narong (2009) [58] Activity-Based
Costing (ABC) is an approach that assigns costs in an
objective way through the “cost and effect relationships”
in which each activity cost is identified and assigned to
each product or service only if such product or service
utilizes the activity. The application of ABC has lead to
computing more accurate and reliable product unit
costs. This motivates managers to depend on their
accurate costs not only to take better short term
decisions but also better long term strategic ones that
affect product design and product processing activities.