Compare and Contrast the Accountant's and Economist's Cost Functions. Part B: Assessing the Approach to ABC Suggested by the Authors of the article, "Rethinking Activity Based Costing." @ https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/rethinking-activity-based-costing

Part A: Cost functions used in accounting are generally linear. Assess how well these functions perform and do they sufficiently reflect economic reality? Provide rationale and evidence to support your argument

Part B: Provide an assessment of the approach to ABC suggested by the authors of the article, "Rethinking Activity Based Costing. Why does activity based costing result in a preferred cost allocation to traditional (arbitrary) allocation techniques? Can you describe any circumstances where traditional allocation techniques would be as effective as ABC? Provide rationale and evidence to support your argument