Allocation Processing Steps

This week's episode shows the general steps of an allocation processes, from transactions to balances and back down to transactions. This graphic gives a sense of how the data flows for an allocation process. Steps of an allocation process

1. The costs must be accumulated to a total costs.
2. The activities or drivers must also be accumulated to get to a total number of activities.
3. The total costs are divided by the total activities to get to a per unit cost,
4. Which is then multiplied by each of the driver specifics to determine what the cost of that driver is.

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