Abstract

This paper aims to examine the effect of Activity Based Costing ABC system on corporate pricing decisions of the Jordanian industrial shareholding companies Specifically this paper aims at examining the effect of ABC system on corporate pricing decision These decisions include i setting the initial price ii determining discounts iii setting the final price and ix decision on competitive pricing analysis Drawing from quantitative research methodology a questionnaire was developed as the main tool for data collection which included a sample of 352 employees in the Jordanian industrial shareholding companies Using the linear regression model we model the relationship between ABC system and the sub-variables of pricing decisions via the multiple linear estimations The results from this model refer that there was significant 0 05 effect of ABC system on the pricing decisions of the Jordanian industrial companies with a high degree of statistical significance of the variable of raising employee awareness on the importance of ABC on all independent variables of corporate pricing decisions