Uniform Costing Interview Question:

Can you please explain what are the per-requisites for successful implementation of uniform costing?

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The pre-requisites for successful implementation of uniform costing are as follows:

-Firms in the industry should have mutual trust and willingness to share relevant information.

-A spirit of co-operation should be there among the participating firms

-Free exchange of ideas, methods used.

-Bigger firms should take the lead to share with smaller firms, their experience, achievements of efficiency, improvements and know how to enable the later to improve their performance.

-No hiding or withholding of information.

-No rivalry, competition among the competitors.

-Uniformity must be established with regard to several following points before introducing uniform costing in the industry:
1. Size of the units in the industry
2. Production methods
3. Accounting principles, procedures used
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