In activity-based costing this refers to the allocation of costs to activities. For example, allocating the costs of setting up the manufacturing equipment to run a batch of product to the activity “setup costs” is a stage 1 allocation. This stage 1 cost is then allocated to cost objects such as a product or service. See stage 2 allocation.
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