Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to find the criteria for allocating cost and finding the
model used for calculating the university's productivity cost by studying factors affecting costs
which consisted of the number of students, number of personnel, ratio of students to professors,
ratio of support staff to academic staff, and registration number; and by using the activity-based
costing system to calculate the cost per program The data of an autonomous university, which
was used as a case study, were collected from January 2016 to December 2018, a total of 3
years. The university had a total of 22 divisions, and there was a total of 66 samples. Statistical
methods of multiple regression analysis were used to find relationships and the results were
considered as the criteria used to allocate the cost and as the model used to calculate the
university's productivity cost.
The results showed that the number of students was correlated with the central cost of
the university in the same direction at the statistical significance level of 0.05, and the number of
personnel was correlated with the cost of various departments / faculties of the university in the
same direction at the statistical significance level of 0.05. It was concluded that to the central cost,
the university should use the number of students as criteria for allocating cost to various
departments / faculties. In addition, to the cost of various departments / faculties, the university
should use the number of personnel as the criteria for allocating the cost to the program. In
conclusion, this model could be used for calculating the cost per program.