• Assess whether Samsung could benefit by using Activity Based Costing (ABC). Your evaluation should include
• factor(s) that influenced your decision,
• the ramifications of implementing ABC in the Global smartphone market, and
• how you would structure the distribution of costs using ABC for Samsung.
• Assess whether Samsung could benefit by using a standard cost system. Your evaluation should include
• the factor(s) that influenced your decision,
• the ramifications of costs, quantity, and variances, and
• the ramifications of using standard costs in the global smartphone market.
• Explain how Samsung could benefit by product pricing in terms of cost-plus concepts. This explanation should include
• Samsung's future plans, such as, expansion, consolidation, and downsizing, and
• how costs concepts could be used in the decision making.

The Samsung's New Challenge: Rising Component Costs Final Paper