Utilization of Time-driven Activity-based Costing and Process Simulation in Cost Management of Organization

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-007" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-007</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-007" target="_blank" >10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Utilization of Time-driven Activity-based Costing and Process Simulation in Cost Management of Organization

Original language description

The deployment of information and communication technologies in organizations is on the rise. Many organizations consider the application of technologies to be a crucial key to improve their processes. However, traditional costing systems are not suitable for cost estimation of business processes due to the use of volume-based cost drivers, which are often not adequate for the structure of today’s organizations. In this research, we present an overview of how the TDABC (time-driven activity-based costing) model can be combined with process mining and business process simulation for cost estimation of such processes. The objective of this paper is to use the cost dimension as a major attribute for the potential implementation of robotic process automation (RPA) in companies. However, information and communication technologies could be considered in general. We demonstrate our approach in a case study that takes advantage of a real-life event log containing transactional data representing the loan application process in an insurance company. The event log is analyzed and processed using process mining techniques. Based on the preprocessing, a simulation model representing the original loan application process is designed. The designed simulation model is then used for simulation of partial and full implementation of RPA through separate scenarios. Then, we add the cost dimension to the simulation by enriching the event log with cost data based on a formalized cost model. We show that even though partial implementation of RPA might not deliver significant increase in efficiency in the process, it might still represent significant cost savings.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

E+M Ekonomie a Management

ISSN

1212-3609

e-ISSN

2336-5064

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

50-68

UT code for WoS article

001245554600004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84855985902