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Assessment of Current and Future prospects of Activity
Based Costing in the Textile Sector of Pakistan
Danish Iqbal Godil
Department of Management Sciences
Bahria University – (Karachi Campus)
Dr.Syed Shabib- ul- Hasan
Department of Public Administration
University of Karachi
Abstract
This study focuses on the costing system followed by textile sector in Pakistan and investigates
the issues such as rate of adoption of ABC system by textile sector of Pakistan by classifying
them as Implementers, Supports, Non implementers, Unawares, the reasons for non
implementation and as to why management was motivated to implement ABC system in future
was also analyzed. In order to accomplish these tasks firstly a questionnaire was developed and
handed over to the finance and accounts staff of 60 textile companies out of which 42 responded.
According to the findings of this study many companies of textile sectors have not implemented
ABC system due to non active support of top management and time constraint. mindset of the
organization, management is satisfied with current costing system, planning to implement it in
future, lack of resources and high cost of system implementation etc.
Keywords: ABC system, Textile Companies, Strong Active Support of Top Management.
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1. Introduction
With increasing worldwide competition in modern era, and due to the emergence of advance
manufacturing technologies (AMT), textile as well as other industries are adopting higher
production automation and product diversification. Cost allocation of production overhead is an
important factor in estimating total production cost and hence production overhead becomes an
important element in a product cost. Different methods such as Absorption costing, Variable
costing , Throughput costing , Standard costing and Activity based costing etc can be used for
overhead allocation purposes.
Under the traditional costing method volume based measures such as machine hours or labor are
utilized as cost driver for allocating production overhead cost. Such type of costing system was
suitable in those days where companies were manufacturing narrow range of products and direct
material and direct labor were considered as dominant factory costs. Overhead costs accounts to
small proportion of total production cost and the effect of distortion due to inappropriate
allocation was not significant. Justification of more sophisticated overhead allocation methods
was difficult due to high information processing costs.
In modern world era companies are producing wide range of products and hence direct labor
accounts to small proportion of total manufacturing overhead, whereas overhead costs becomes a
dominant part of total manufacturing cost. Holzer and Norreklit(1991) suggests that the demand
for more accurate product cost has increased due to the increased opportunity cost of having an
inappropriate costing information and decreased cost of operating more complicated cost
systems. So this accounts for the emergence of an alternative approach given by Cooper and
Kaplan, the ABC system. According to Hofstede (1980) and Brewer (1998) the increasing
significance of Asian countries in the world economy and the effect of their different national
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customs on corporation management, both propose that more research on ABC in the Asian
environment is necessary.
Companies in Pakistani textile sector are following the usual costing system and are thus not able
to identify the cost behavior and cost of each product and are just relying on the overall
profitability of the company, so there is a need to switch to an another improved costing system.
Not much research work has been done on the assessment of ABC system in Pakistan
specifically with respect to Pakistani Textile sector. This study focuses on the costing system
followed by textile sector in Pakistan and incorporates a wide range of problems into one case
study such as rate of adoption of ABC costing by the textile sector of Pakistan by identifying the
implementers, supports, non implementers and unawares. Further the reason for non
implementation and why management is motivated to implement ABC system in future was also
analyzed.
1.1 Research Problem
ABC system is not very much popular in Pakistani manufacturing sector , specifically in the
textile sector as currently very few companies are following this system. Most of the prior
researches had been carried out among corporations in Western world while the practice of ABC
implementation and execution in other part of the world is often overlooked. Companies in
Pakistani textile sector are usually following the old conventional costing system or are not
following any appropriate costing system due to which they are not able to identify the cost
behavior and cost of each product.
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1.2 Research Objective
This study aims to determine the costing system followed by textile sector in Pakistan and
incorporates a wide range of problems into one case study such as,
To identify the adoption rate of ABC by textile sector of Pakistan by classifying it as
implementers supports, non implementers, unawares.
To identify the reasons for not implementing ABC.
To identify the reasons as to why management is motivated to implement ABC system in
future
2. Literature Review
2.1. Need of ABC system
According to Jensen and Meckling (1992), the main purposes of the managerial accounting are
to provide control by reducing conflict, to attach the policy to resources allocation and to aid the
company‟s internal coherence.
Cooper (1987) identified that the due to the increasing ratio of manufacturing overhead in
product cost, using direct labor hours or costs (volume-based allocation bases), results in
incorrect cost allocation. Cooper (1988) had further analyzed that due to increasing
diversification in volume of product, size and complexity the significance of cost distortion
under the traditional costing system has increased. Other studies also show same results (Turney,
1991; Cooper and Kaplan, 1991; Turney and Stratton, 1992).
Raffish (1991) surveyed production industries in the USA and identified that the proportion of
production overhead was around 30% to 50%, whereas direct material accounted to about 45%
to 55% in the product cost. Cost of direct labor was around 5% to 15% of product costs.
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Traditional costing system is one of the methods used to compute the cost of a product but this
system was suitable in those days where companies were manufacturing narrow range of
products and direct material and direct labor were considered as dominant factory costs.
In modern world era companies are producing wide range of products by using more complex
and automated systems, hence direct labor accounts to small proportion of total manufacturing
overhead whereas overhead costs becomes a dominant part of total manufacturing cost. Holzer
and Norreklit (1991) suggests that the demand for more accurate product cost has increased due
to the increased opportunity cost of having an inappropriate costing information and decreased
cost of operating more complicated cost system. So this accounts for the emergence of an
alternative approach given by Cooper and Kaplan, the ABC system. Need of accurate cost
information was one of the major reasons for adopting ABC. Other reasons include
modernization of current cost accounting system, correct allocation of indirect cost, proper
budgeting, cost control and reduction.
2.2. What is ABC system?
ABC identifies that the majority of costs are not fixed in long run and it tries to understand the
reasons due to which changes in cost occurs over the period. It allocates cost to each product or
service according to the time consumed or activity utilized etc. Thus this system works on the
basis of causality which results in improved computation of cost, aid in effective decision
making and serves as a yardstick for other management decisions.
C.B. Wessels a and F. Vermaas b (1998) concluded that ABC is useful as it enhances the
planning, decision making and control capabilities of management but it is a costly
management accounting system as high levels of details are necessary for its proper operation.
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Proper cost/benefit analysis needs to be done before implementing any management accounting
system.
ABC system is considered more useful as compared to traditional costing in, measuring product
cost, identifying profit and understanding cost drivers. Investment in advance manufacturing
technologies can be evaluated and its implementation may also results in better planning and
control of cost.
ABC system requires first to identify activities with in an organization in order to identify the
cost driver related to that activity. Cost pools are generated from which cost rates are determined
and charged to products accordingly.
According to Carsten (2001) selecting cost drivers is an important issue in implementing ABC
system as precision must be traded off against the complexity of the system. On one hand, a high
precision in allocating factory overhead costs often requires a large number of cost drivers while
on the other hand, a small number of cost drivers are necessary to attain acceptable level of cost
information and to make the ABC system easily understandable for management. So the selected
cost drivers also bear the cost of drivers which are not selected.
ABC system uses cost drivers at unit, product, batch and facility level to allocate cost as
compared to conventional costing system which just uses unit level characteristics of goods.
2.3. ABC system around the Globe:-
According to Innes and Mitchell (1991) the adoption rate is about 10% in UK, while as per
Armitage and Nicholson (1993) it was 14% in Canada during the same period. According to
Green and Amenkhienan (1992) adoption rate in US companies were more than UK. Later Groot
(1999) investigated and showed that it was 17.7% in US while as per Frey and Gordon (1999) it
was 24.4%. As per Chenhall and Langfield-Smith (1998) and Brown et al., (2001) investigation
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adoption rate in Australia ranges from less than 12% to 56%.Research conducted by Bescos et
al.,( 2001) in Canada and by Joshi ( 2001) in India showed that the ABC adoption rate is 23.1 %
and 20% percent, respectively. Finally, according to Bescos et al., (2001) investigation in Japan
showed that about 7% of the companies have adopted it, but interest showed that adoption rate
can increase up to 34.5%.
Cohen, Venieris and Kaimenaki (2005) surveyed and collected evidences regarding ABC
implementation and suggested that though there has been an increasing rate of awareness of
ABC over the past decade, but the overall implementation rate is low. They conducted an
empirical research on 88 Greek companies that belongs to manufacturing, services and retail
sector. They indentified four categories with regard to ABC. (adopters, supporters, deniers and
unawares). They also investigated the reasons that influence the companies decision of changing
their existing cost accounting system even after encountering many problems in ABC
implementation such as doubt of management regarding the effectiveness of new system and
inadequate resources etc.
Research findings suggest that companies have not adopted ABC due to high implementation
cost, lack of support from management and companies‟ satisfaction with their existing system.
Companies had also considered its future adoption to improve cost control, to use it as superior
performance measures, to conduct more accurate analysis of customer profitability and for more
refined decision making etc.
Researchers were also surprised to find that senior accountants of some largest Greek companies
were unaware about ABC system and its philosophy.
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2.4. Application of ABC system in different industries
According to Messner (2009) for the public sector, ABC is an alternative to improve the
inefficiencies of conventional system and also to build up their responsibility level as the
generated information can help the business to explain, defend and take responsibility for what
have been done.
Rong, Thomas, Wen-Ying and Chao-Hsin (2009) discussed the case of implementation of ABC
in a textile company. They analyzed the reasons as to why the ABC was not implemented and
not reached to the action phase. According to them the main reasons of failure were the lack of
management support, IT support, education and training. However lack of performance based
incentives, lack of MIS staff and improper inventory management were also some of the reasons
that contributed towards the postponement of ABC implementation. Companies management
was focused more on efficiency advancement and brand name and did not considered altering the
performance plan associated with ABC implementation.
Nachtmann and Hani Al-Rifai (2010) has analyzed the application of ABC system in AC
manufacturing industry and found out that about 55% of their production overhead were related
with material handling activities and hence traditional costing system would distort the cost
results. So ABC system was implemented which also indicated that overhead is not consumed by
product on volume basis as represented by their existing system (Traditional costing). The
analysis of ABC indicated that out of 7 products 3 are in loss at current market price. Much of
the ABC system depends upon the quality and amount of available data. The overhead rates used
by ABC would not be appropriate if there is a major change in product or process and hence they
need to be updated. Further, ABC system required to be updated if new product line is added or
subtracted. Spreadsheet was used for ABC as it can be efficiently updated.
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Suthummanon, Ratanamanee, Boonyanuwat and Saritprit (2011) have studied the application of
ABC on a furniture factory and stated that it helps management to spot expensive and
unprofitable products. This information is important from management point of view as it will
help in the reduction and elimination of non value added activities of such manufactured
products by applying additional industrial engineering methods. They further analyzed that as
ABC system is labor intensive and time consuming process its success depends upon the
complete participation of every part of the organization. Management who identifies the need for
implementing the system may be hesitant of the changes brought by ABC and may oppose the
same. Hence in these situations important improvement opportunities may be missed. Therefore
consideration needs to be given to such resistance.
3. Research Methodology
In order to accomplish these tasks a questionnaire was developed and handed over to the finance
and accounts staff of the different textile companies. They were asked to reply to the
questionnaire on their perceptions, experiences and understanding. Telephonic and personal
Interviews were also conducted The questionnaire was send to about 60 textile companies out of
which 42 responded, which accounts to 70% response rate.
Initially the response rate was very low. To increase the response rate accounts and finance staff
members were phoned, requesting them to complete the questionnaire. The telephonic interviews
resulted with an interesting feedback as to why the accounts and finance employees had not
replied to the initial e-mail sent. Following are some of the reasons:
They don‟t have any idea about ABC system.
They were busy with the monthly reporting.
The questionnaire was too much lengthy.
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The required information in the survey was too sensitive for the company.
Their company‟s SOP does not allow leaking such information.
They are not in practice of participating or completing in such type of surveys
3.1. Questionnaire Design
This study aims at determining the costing system followed by textile sector in Pakistan and
incorporates a wide range of problems into one case study such as it aims
To identify the adoption rate of ABC by textile sector of Pakistan by classifying it as
Implementers, Supports, Non implementers, Unawares.
To identify the reasons for not implementing ABC.
To identify the reasons as to why management is motivated to implement ABC system in
future
The questionnaire consists of three sections namely A, B, and C which were designed to gain
some general and specific idea of respondents and they also represent 3 objectives of this
research.
Most of the questions were close ended as the close ended questions have guided replies that
may encourage the participants to have more interest in answering the questions. Key questions
were based on Likert-type scale. Factors influencing the reasons for not implementing ABC and
as to why management was motivated to implement ABC system in future were scored on a five-
point numerical scale from 1 represents = strongly disagree to 5 represents = strongly agree.
Some questions of section A were comprised of Yes or No options and also on a on a five-point
numerical scale, from 1 represents = not at all satisfied to 5 represents = highly satisfied.
Questions included in section A were devised to get the idea of size of the company, costing
system followed by them and their satisfaction level with their current costing system if other
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than ABC system. Section B was aimed to identify the reasons for not implementing ABC,
whereas section C identifies the perceptions of the employees regarding the reasons as to why
management is motivated to implement ABC system in future.
4. Data Analysis and Results
4.1. Data Analysis Techniques
For this study, along with the mean values, graphs and tables are also used to answer the research
questions. The most significant outcomes are discussed briefly.
4.2. Discussion of the results
Following graphs shows the result of section „A‟ which consists of 8 questions in which general
idea of size of the company, the satisfaction level of employees with the current costing system
followed by them and the adoption rate of ABC system by textile sector of Pakistan was
analyzed.
Figure 1 shows the size of companies in term of annual sales turnover. It is evident from Figure 1
that out of 42 respondents companies 32 companies which accounts to 76% have annual sales
turnover of greater than 299 million. Only 5 companies (12%) out of 42 companies are currently
following ABC system whereas 37 (88%) are not currently following this system as shown
figure 2. One reason for this is that, accountants of 13 (31%) companies even don‟t have any
idea of ABC system which is evident from Figure 3.
Figure 4 clearly depicts that most of the companies i.e. 28 (67%) are still following the old
conventional (Absorption) costing system, followed by standard costing which is used by
7companies (17%).
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Figure 5 shows the adoption rate of ABC system which is classified under the head of non
implementer (43%), Unawares (31%), Supporters (14%) and implementers (12%).
All mean values in Table 1 are significant that is greater than 3 which shows that respondents are
satisfied with their current costing system (other than ABC system) and thinks that their current
costing system is successful in capturing correct cost information in gaining insight about
manufacturing performance.
In Section B of questionnaire, reasons for not implementing ABC were inquired from
respondents. It is evident from the results of Table 2.above that system implementation cost
mean value (3.17) and time constraint (mean value 3.46) are the two main reasons for not
implementing ABC system. Some other reasons which were mentioned by respondents are:-
Mindset of the organization
Satisfied with current costing system
Non qualified accountants
Lack of management support.
However 6 textile companies are planning to implement ABC system in future for which all
reasons mentioned in table 3 seems to be significant. It means that they are all agreeing on the
reasons mention in table 3 due to which management is motivated to implement ABC system in
future. Two reasons i.e. to correct cost allocation distortion in overheads (mean value 4.17) and
to identify activities that consumes non value added time mean value (4.17) are the most
significant ones.
5. Implications
Companies in Pakistani textile sector are following old conventional costing system due to which
appropriate cost of each product and their cost behavior can not be identified. So these
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companies are just relying on the overall profitability of the company. Management should
change their mindset and switch to another improved costing system i.e. ABC system in order to
compute the true cost of product.
Strong active support of management is vital in the successful implementation of any system.
Dedication is also one of the most important factors. Top management should not only provide
all the means of implementation and required resources but also provide active support to
employees for the successful implementation of ABC system.
Hiring of well qualified professional accountants is also very much important for those
companies who are trying to implement ABC system in future.
6. Future Research
The research indicates that some companies are in planning phase of their ABC implementation.
Future research on implementation process and pros and cons of ABC can be done with respect
to textile sector of Pakistan. Case study approach can be used so that the comparison of product
cost can be done under two costing systems i.e. Traditional and ABC system.
Further same type of research can be done on other manufacturing retail and service sectors so
that the general idea of Pakistani environment regarding ABC system can be obtained.
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Annexure
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Table 1
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Table III
1. Significance of Study
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