ABC is crucial because it tells managers which products or services make or lose money - they usually don't know. Traditional cost allocations often depict an unrealistic, inadequate view of profitability, sometimes distorted by hundreds of percent. In most cases, ABC is designed to provide profitab...

1. Mobil's plastics business was worth more to Tenneco because it more closely fit their corporate strategy of product development and market expansion. Tenneco is very focused on global expansion and Mobil's plastics division provided them with products that lend themselves well ...