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numerous cost pools and numerous cost drivers

Step-by-step explanation:

Costing is the measurement of the cost of production of goods and services by assessing the fixed costs and variable costs associated with each step of production.

In Financial accounting, one of the most widely used activity-based costing technique is the time-driven activity-based costing.

Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) avails business owners the opportunity of reporting their costs on an ongoing basis (real time) which give details about the various cost of doing business, as well as the time spent on them respectively.

Cost pool is simply the amount of money spent by a firm on a particular activity.

Generally, an activity-based costing uses numerous cost pools such as manufacturing cost or customer services and numerous cost drivers such as direct labor hours worked, number of changes used in engineering department, etc.

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