In accounting, there are a lot of costing methods, and it may be overwhelming to know how they relate to each other. In this article, we discuss various costing methods: job costing, process costing, standard costing, absorption costing, variable costing, throughput costing, activity-based costing, target costing, and kaizen costing.

Activity-based costing has been around for some time and is used by some of the largest and successful companies in the world. This costing approach, though, may require a lot of internal resources to develop and maintain. In this article, we will discuss a new flavor of this costing method called time-driven activity-based costing.

In this accounting guide we will look at the main principles of the traditional costing model and compare it with activity-based costing (ABC).

Learn about operating leverage and how one can compare operating leverage across companies.