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101activity-based costing — ABC method; = activity costing A system of cost allocation proposed by Professors Johnson and Kaplan in their book Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting (1987), in which they questioned accounting techniques based on… …
102activity-based costing — ABC; activity costing A system of costing proposed by Professors Johnson and Kaplan in their book Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting (1987), in which they questioned accounting techniques based on absorption costing Their… …
103activity holiday — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms activity holiday : singular activity holiday plural activity holidays tourism a holiday on which you spend your time doing a particular activity such as walking, canoeing, rock climbing, painting, or cooking …
104Activity Monitor — Infobox Software | name = Activity Monitor caption = developer = Apple Computer latest release version = 10.5 (117) latest release date = 2007 operating system = Mac OS X genre = Utility license = Proprietary website =… …
105Activity Quota — A minimum level of sales oriented actions that must be met by a salesperson during a given time period. An activity quota may require a salesperson to make a certain number of outbound calls, send a certain number of emails to potential clients… …
106Activity-Based Management - ABM — A procedure that originated in the 1980s for analyzing the processes of a business to identify strengths and weaknesses. Specifically, activity based management seeks out areas where a business is losing money so that those activities can be… …
107activity coefficient — ratio of the metabolic activity of a fish at rest with that at maximum activity …
108activity trap — noun The risk of becoming so busy with activity so as to forget and miss the aim of that activity. <! Verification: Google hits: 9000. The term is used by Peter Drucker and Stepher R. Covey …
109Activity-Based Budgeting - ABB — A method of budgeting in which the activities that incur costs in every functional area of an organization are recorded and their relationships are defined and analyzed. Activities are then tied to strategic goals, after which the costs of the… …
110activity analysis — In activity based costing, the identification and description of activities in an organization. Each department will determine the key activities, how many people work on the activities, and what resources are required to perform the activities.… …
