Abstract:
This research aimed to study the use of activity-based costing system to calcu-late production costs students and cost comparisons between the cost of traditional systems and activity-based costing of community education colleges in the North by calculating the cost per student. The samples were the 751 students from first year until the last year of the study in vocational education and 300 students from high vocational certificate education so, there were 1,051 students in total by using historicaldata during the academic year from 2011 to 2013. The statistics used in the analysis included descriptive statistics to describe the nature of the cost data consists of the percentage and average. The results revealed that 1) Production costs of vocational certificate of community education college students in the Northern with the average cost, per student since the first until graduating were as follows: production costs for Electronics Applications Branch per student was 46,810.48 baht, production costs for Accounting Branch per student was 30,487.85 baht, production costs of Electric Branch per student was 26,743.80 baht, production costs of Automotive Branch per student was 21,481.97 baht and production costs of Computer Business Branch per student was 19,402.50 baht respectively. And production costs of high vocational certificate of community education college students in the Northern with the average cost per student since the first year until graduation were as follows: production costs of Electricity Installation Branch per student was 142,861.00 baht, production costs of industrial Electronics Applications Branch per student was 108,615.14 baht, productioncosts for Accounting Branch per student was 64,691.05 baht, production costs for Technical Automotive Branch per student was 62,392.10 baht, and production costs for Webpage Development Branch per student was 52,200.35baht respectively and 2) production costs for vocational certificate of career colleges students in the Northernin traditional systems was higher than the activity-based costing of 9.65 percent and production costs of high vocational certificate of students of community education colleges in the Northern was presented that traditional systems was higher than the activity-based costing of 35.29 percent.