The English expression Activity Value Analysis (AVA) designated a costs control methodology based in a creation of a data base destined to quantify the resources (namely time and people) needed for the performance or certain activities and tasks within each process. From this resources data base is then possible to chart the costs, for example, by product, within each product by process and within each product by activity. The methodology Activity Value Analysis allows this way the attainment of information about the costs involved in a certain activity and its value for the organization being especially useful in the analysis of indirect costs.