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    Adoption discrepancies Of activity-based costing among the manufacturing Smes In the developed and developing countries: empirical literature review
    (International Journal Publishing House, 2020) Molela, Godfrey F.; Ismail, Ismail J.
    Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) constitute a very valuable component of economic enhancement framework that contributes significantly to countries’ GDP in the world. The financial performance of these enterprises have inarguably become of paramount importance for their survival and growth. Adopting the activity-based costing (ABC) system is among the strategic moves that SMEs are urged to take, in order to reduce their operational costs and boosting the profit at the same time. Nevertheless, the rates of adoption were reported in the previous studies to be low in both the developed and developing countries. This study assessed the effect of individual factors that caused the adoption discrepancies in the two geographical environments. The use of two-sample test statistic on analyzing the mean score data from twenty (20) empirical studies revealed that, there were no significant differences imposed by the system advantage, complexity, compatibility, knowledge, management support, implementation cost and perception on SMEs’ decisions to adopt the ABC system, in both the developed and developing countries.
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    Sunflower price differentials attributed to the disparity of traditional cost accounting and conventional methods in Tanzania
    (Science Publishing Group, 2021) Molela, Godfrey; Baraza, Mohamed; Kaluse, Mohamed; Mlay, Felix; Msese, Lukelo
    Sunflower is among the key cash crops in Tanzania, which contribute significantly to the country’s economy. As it is the case for other crop subsectors, sunflower is also grown in abundance by smallholder farmers. Nevertheless, they had been living in poverty throughout their careers in agriculture which on the other hand benefited the counterparties in the trading deals. The unfair price offered to sunflower farmers was discovered in this study to be a misfortune in their investments. The conventional average farm-gate price of TZS. 622.449/Kg was found to be out of the price ranges that were backed by traditional cost accounting system, leaving farmers making losses of minimum TZS. 99.889/Kg. This study was conducted in Singida Region, Tanzania where a sample of 206 household farmers was used to obtain primary data on activity costs while the secondary data concerning the conventional price were obtained from the Districts’ sales reports and farmers’ records. Inferential statistics with one-sample test model was used alongside the IBM SPSS 26.0 statistical package in the quantitative data analysis. It was recommended, further studies to be conducted to explore more about the production cost that is backed by the activity-based costing (ABC) system, as it is more effective in assigning overheads to cost object than the traditional costing.