forcing
Definition
Allocation of the costs of a sustaining activity to a cost-object when that cost-object neither consumes nor is causally related to that activity. For example, allocating the cost of maintaining a plant to output-units through a cost-driver (such as labor hours) is forcing that cost to the product.
forcing is in the Banking, Commerce & Finance and Business Communications & Presentations subjects.
forcing appears in the definitions of the following terms:
odd even pricing,
inflationary spiral,
prepayment risk,
financial crisis,
barriers to entry,
termination of trust,
inventory loading,
pull,
zero based budgeting (ZBB),
greenmail
and
forcing appears in these other term: full line forcing
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