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''Cost and management accounting''.
Guidance Note.


A cost pool is a more refined development of a cost centre, used in ''activity-based costing''.


Cost pools are defined by activities such as design, set up costs, quality control, material ordering and production monitoring.
== See also ==
 
* [[Guidance note]]
 
Costs established in the cost pools are then allocated to units of production on the basis of activities consumed.
 
 
==See also==
* [[Absorption costing]]
* [[Activity-based costing]]
* [[Cost centre]]
* [[Cost saving centre]]
* [[Hedging]]
* [[Management accounting]]
* [[Profit centre]]
* [[Response to risk]]
 
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Guidance Note.


See also