Hardie plank siding is a premium brand of cement board siding (also known as fiber cement board siding) produced by the James Hardie Company.ardie plank can be purchased with a wood-grain look, a plain smooth look or a stucco type finish. Hardie plank also comes in simulated cedar shingle planks.
activity duration. Period (hours, days, weeks) required to complete an activity. Activities with zero duration are called milestones.
DEFINITION of 'Activity Cost Driver'. A factor that influences or contributes to the expense of certain business operations. In activity based costing (ABC), an activity cost driver is something that drives the cost of a particular activity. A factory, for example, may have running machinery as an activity. The activity cost driver associated with running the machinery could be machine operating hours, which would drive the costs of labor, maintenance and power consumption of running the machinery activity.