Diseño de un sistema de costos para Microempresas de Antioquia Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito
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Frequently, we observe companies with financial and operative strength, and these results being extracted from the financial information, which has its real importance and benefits if it is prepared with a structured methodology and according to the kind of operation and activities it realizes. In many cases, the main aspects that should be improved cannot be identified in a detailed way, so some decisions are taken that do not impact appropriately the achievement of its objectives. Taking this into account and having in mind the big growth that some Microempresas de Antioquia de Ahorro y Crédito have had, we see the need that its Board of Directors have access to the most appropriate information for taking assertive decisions that let them develop its strategical and operative objectives, with the aim of achieving the fulfillment, by improving the quality of its services, generating a better quality of life for its associates and consolidating itself as a leader in the sector. Each time, the Cooperative requires that its efforts be focused in the development of its social objective through the processes that generate value; from this, it appears the need to implement a cost system based on each one of the activities that the different areas develop, to assign them to the final products, observing that the most adequate method is the ABC Cost System. With the ABC Cost methodology, the resources and responsibility centers were defined, as the key elements to determine the cost of the services, based on a distribution of the activities realized in the development of the social objective, which are those that consume the resources. In the same way, the expenses related directly with the selling operation were identified, so all this information will let the Entity evaluate the efficiency of each one of the processes. The distribution criteria (drivers) used to assign the resources in each one of the levels (responsibility centers, activities and objects of the cost) were determined under the concepts more adjusted to the type of activity realized, in which the most representative resource is the personnel. The final results of this model will make that the Cooperative improve the quality of the financial information prepared, and support the institutional decision taking.
