Accounting Dictionary - Letter V

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Volume-based costing
(also called traditional costing) is a product costing system when an entity allocates factory overhead costs to a single cost pool (e.g., factory overhead) and then uses volume-based cost drivers to allocate factory overhead costs to individual products or services. The entity uses volume-based cost drivers that depend on the number of units manufactured. Cost bases (or drivers) often used include labor hours, machine hours and labor costs.
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