...PUBLIX CMT Contemporary Management Technique for Publix Target Costing Rationale Publix Super Markets, Inc. is a primarily Florida established grocery store chain which employees over 120,000. Currently, Publix serves over one million customers each day and is also one of the largest employee-owned businesses in the world. Moreover, the company is one of Florida’s leading supermarkets and has tailored to most cultural trends in the grocery industry-organic foods; health foods, natural foods, prepared meals, ethnic ingredients, etc. Publix grocery has benefited from great success in the industry and has expanded out of primary market, Florida. However, with the arrival of globalization impacting margins in almost every industry, the food retailing/supermarket industry has now joined the trend. International and domestic food retailers around the globe have started to internationalize at a brisk rate and open operations around the globe (Mujtaba & Franklin, 2007). The right product pricing is one of the most important matters concerning the growth of companies’ financial performance. Prices should be low enough to draw in customers; however, simultaneously high enough to cover all costs and anticipated profits. Research in the supermarket industry indicates that nine percent of customers leave and shop elsewhere because they think prices are too high. The supermarket business is becoming more and more concentrated as large regional chains such as Kroger, Safeway...
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...Introduction: Management Accounting: Management accounting is the commonsense study of quality creation inside associations in both the private and open segments. It joins accounting, finance and management with the leading edge methods required to drive fruitful organizations. Management accountants work in budgetary and non money related parts all around associations and complete all their preparation and experience prerequisites inside business itself, furnishing them with an one of a kind understanding into how their associations work. [ (CIMA, 2009) ] Supply chain management Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a procedure from supplier to producer to wholesaler to retailer to customer. Supply chain management includes arranging and combining these flows both inside and around organizations. It is said that a definitive objective of any viable supply chain management framework is to decrease inventory (with the presumption that products are accessible when required). As an answer for fruitful supply chain management, refined software frameworks with Web interfaces are rivaling Web based Application Service Providers (ASP) who guarantee to furnish part or the sum of the SCM administration for organizations who rent their administration. Supply chain management flows might be separated into three primary flows: * the product flow * the information flow * the finances flow The product flow...
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...article of a traditional cost management VS lean cost management by Mahanim Hanid, Lauri Koskela and Mohan Sinwardena, the term of cost management is not a well defined term. It’s built on both cost accounting and management accounting, but goes beyond these two terms (P. Agrawal and Mehra 1998). For Brinker (1996) defines it as a set of techniques and methods for controlling and improving a company’s activities and processes, its products and services. In addition, Maskel (2009) also described that the cost and management accounting is used internally to help the company’s manager control and improve the business. Although there is an accounting standards associated with these tasks, there is no legal requirement to perform these tasks in any particular way or to perform them at all. A company can do as much or as little cost and management accounting as it wishes and it can be done in any way it wants. Furthermore, cost accounting practices are seldom exactly similar in different companies (P. Agrawaland and Mehra 1998). According to text referred, cost management is equally important to all companies, regardless of size. Small companies generally have tighter monetary controls, mainly because of the risk with the failure of as little as one project, but with less sophisticated control techniques. Large companies may have the luxury to spread project losses over several project whereas the small company may have few projects. Cost management is not only “monitoring” of...
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... A New Look At Management Accounting Mohammad Talha, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia John B. Raja, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia A. Seetharaman, S P Jain Center of Management, Singapore ABSTRACT This paper presents a comparison of the traditional management accounting with the new approach of management accounting with the use of latest information technology and manufacturing technologies. The information and data of the research were gathered from various sources of secondary data. Many online articles and journals were available through these search engines such as Google, Infoseek, Lycos, Excites and Altavista. These articles were downloaded from Internet Websites including IFAC library, CPA online newsletters, Institute of Management Accountants, CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants), Technical Bulletin and Institute of Commercial and Financial Accountants. The modern techniques used in Management Accounting are discussed. TQM (Total Quality Management), ABC (Activity Based Costing) and BSC (Balanced score card) are some of the tools that are introduced in management accounting to keep up with the latest technology. This research highlights the emergence of new, more proactive management accounting that increasingly becomes part of the management team with the business process. The future roles and expectations of these accountants in the competitive global economy are discussed. Keywords: Management accounting, Standard...
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...Questions 1. Target pricing: a. starts with the supplier’s price, and works to determine the selling price of the buying organization’s end product or service. b. starts with the selling price of an organization’s end product minus the operating profit to establish the target cost. c. starts with the selling price of an organization’s end product minus actual manufacturing, overhead, and materials costs to determine operating profit. d. starts with the supplier’s price, and works to determine the supplier’s true cost structure. e. starts with the buyer’s lowest reasonable price target, and works to a negotiated price agreed on by the buyer and the supplier. 2. Activity based costing attempts to: a. correct the distortions built into product costing by the way that direct costs are allocated. b. correct the distortions built into product costing by the way that the learning curve is applied to direct labor costs. c. turn indirect costs into direct costs by tracking the cost drivers behind indirect costs. d. turn direct costs into indirect costs by tracking the cost drivers behind direct costs. e. introduce a new way to allocate direct costs that more accurately captures labor and material usage. 3. An externally focused process of analyzing costs in terms of the overall value chain is called: a. strategic cost management. b. supply chain management. c. total cost management. d. profit leverage effect. e. activity based costing. 4. Target pricing may...
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...December 2011 SUPPLY CHAIN METRICS Time: 3 hours Marks: 100 Part A Answer all questions (10 x 1 = 10 Marks) 1. The primary purpose of any vendor performance system is to: (a) Evaluate their product quality over time (b) Decide on vendor selection (c) Evaluate vendor performance (d) Assess if meeting all buying requirements 2. The ABC analytical tool as applied to inventory management is best aligned to: (a) Activity-Based Costing (b) Analytical –Based Costing (c) Alpha-numeric Based Classification (d) Pareto’s Analysis 3. The SCOR Model is characterized by the following distinct management processes: (a) Plan, Select, Make, Deliver, and Return (b) Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Return (c) Process, Select, Manufacture, Deliver and Recycle (d) Process, Source, Make, Destroy and Return 4. In the BSC model, each of the four perspectives is to be examined in relation to: (a) Objectives, Methods. Tools and Initiatives (b) Objectives, Measures, Targets and Introspection (c) Objectives, Methods, Targets and Inspection (d) Objectives, Measures, Targets and Initiatives 5. The Analytical Hierarchy Process decision-making technique links the following tools: (a) SCOR model and BSC model (b) BSC model and Activity-Based Costing (c) SCOR model and Mission-Objective -Strategy (d) Mission-Objective- Strategy and Target-based costing 6. While doing...
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...Questions 1. Target pricing: a. starts with the supplier’s price, and works to determine the selling price of the buying organization’s end product or service. b. starts with the selling price of an organization’s end product minus the operating profit to establish the target cost. c. starts with the selling price of an organization’s end product minus actual manufacturing, overhead, and materials costs to determine operating profit. d. starts with the supplier’s price, and works to determine the supplier’s true cost structure. e. starts with the buyer’s lowest reasonable price target, and works to a negotiated price agreed on by the buyer and the supplier. 2. Activity based costing attempts to: a. correct the distortions built into product costing by the way that direct costs are allocated. b. correct the distortions built into product costing by the way that the learning curve is applied to direct labor costs. c. turn indirect costs into direct costs by tracking the cost drivers behind indirect costs. d. turn direct costs into indirect costs by tracking the cost drivers behind direct costs. e. introduce a new way to allocate direct costs that more accurately captures labor and material usage. 3. An externally focused process of analyzing costs in terms of the overall value chain is called: a. strategic cost management. b. supply chain management. c. total cost management. d. profit leverage effect. e. activity based costing. 4. Target pricing may...
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...strengths and weaknesses of the target costing system? First, target costing originally starts with mangers estimate the cost that customers are willing to pay and how competitor will price the same products or services. (Cost Accounting. Page 545). In the Nissan case, customers are very knowledgeable because the customer demand requires more variations and model types of automobiles. This is a favorable market for Nissan. Nissan managers can set an expected profit margin because the customers has a very high demand of automobiles and they know the automobiles market very well. Second, target costing for a product includes direct manufacturing costs direct materials, direct manufacturing labor, and direct machining costs. (Cost Accounting. Page 519). Analyzing each cost element and eliminate the unnecessary value-added is one of the cost management goals in the target costing system. In order to have a competitive price, Nissan managers have to eliminate some value-added costs which are unnecessary and not so helpful for the automobile manufacturing and selling process. Target costing can shorten the product lives and save Nissan company time to do marketing and financial management. A good example in the Nissan case it that they eliminated the "five-door variant" because it is unnecessary. Last, target costing system helps Nissan build a cross-functional team. The design department, manufacturing department, sales department and management department work together to analyze...
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...TEKNOLOGI MARA, SHAH ALAM FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MASTERS OF BUSINESS ASMINISTRATION (BM 770) MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING (ACC 770) INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT: CONTEMPORARY MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING (CONCENTRATION AREA: TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT) PREPARED BY: STUDENT ID.: PREPARED FOR: NURWAHIDA BT. MOHD. YAAKUB 2009782101 DR. AZIZAH BT. ABDULLAH SUBMISSOION DATE: 10 FEBRUARY 2010 Table of Contents Contents Chapter One: Introduction to Contemporary Managerial Accounting Concepts 1. 2. Value Chain a. Just in Time (JIT) b. Total Quality Management (TQM) c. Theory of Constraints 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Target Costing Kaizen Costing Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Pricing Methods Uses and Limitations of Cost-Based and Market-Based Pricing Factors Affecting Prices Pricing Models for Not-for-Profit Organizations 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 Page Chapter Two: Total Quality Management (TQM) – an Introduction and Its Applications Chapter Three: Conclusion Appendix 1: References 12 23 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS Over the years, the managerial accounting practices had evolved. From the traditional costing method, many firms now have adopted the contemporary managerial practices to achieve better product costing and manufacturing processes. There are many contemporary managerial accounting in practice, some of them being Value Chain, Just-In-Time (JIT) Manufacturing, Total Quality Management (TQM) and the Theory of Constraints (TOC). All...
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...Towards a conceptual framework for strategic cost management - The concept, objectives, and instruments - Von der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Chemnitz genehmigte Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doctor rerum politicarum (Dr. rer. pol.) vorgelegt von Ibrahim Abd El Mageed Ali El Kelety geboren am 11.01.1965 in El Menoufia - Ägypten eingereicht am: 14. Juni 2006 Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Uwe Götze Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Bloech Prof. Dr. Peter Schuster Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 18. Juli 2006 Acknowledgement To the Almighty God “ALLAH” Who have granted me all these graces to fulfill this work and Who supported me in all my life. To Him I extend my heartfelt thanks. It is a pleasure to express my sincere and deepest heartfelt gratitude to my “Doktorvater“ Prof. Dr. Uwe Götze for his kind supervision, continuous encouragement, valuable enthusiastic discussion and unfailing advice throughout the present work, as well as financial support during my latest period of study in Germany. He assisted in all matters, provided solutions to different problems. Prof. Dr. Uwe Götze supported and helped me during my learning period in Germany and writing this thesis. I am very lucky being one of his students. I would like to express my deep thanks to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Bloech - Georg-August University of Göttingen - for his kind acceptance to act as an examiner. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to Prof. Dr. Peter...
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...Managerial Accounting Term Paper December 3rd, 2013 Activity-Based Costing and its Impact on Corporate Industries Activity based costing, also know as “ABC” is the application of gathering data and evaluating all of a companies operational and internal finical overhead information so that top managers can make more accurate and strategic informed decisions to better companies. In the early 1980's traditional costing; which a basic form of costing, was choice of preference with many companies, but traditional costing had its major flaws. Traditional techniques would only provide efficiencies to companies with specific and smaller product selections (Coulter). So in the search of a new systems activity based costing was created, it covered everything from operations, marketing, and all the way to research and development on the internal side of a company. Activity-based costing is extremely important to managers in the sense that it only deals with the internal decision making; which is where most managers focus their views, and that is used along side the traditional accounting. Later on I will present a trade publication that deals with a steel manufacturing company and its journey of activity-based costing throughout they past couple decades. Before then you must have a strong grasp on the concepts of activity-based costing and how they work. First I will discuss how Activity-Based Costing works in an manufacturing side of a company. Each and every product along with...
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...Assignment: Cost Modules Essay Cost management in China has been evolving over the past ten years due to influence by the foreign concepts of management accounting. This can be traced back to year 2001 where increased market openness, reduced government interference, and increased management autonomy were mandatory for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization. This change in market condition has incentivized Chinese firms to improve their management accounting practices. Subsequently, the traditional costing method is also facing a sudden threat by the influx of ABC/M, Target Costing, Responsibility Accounting, etc. Presented with new ideas, this essay will discuss the popular cost management accounting trend in China, specifically the responsibility cost control system. I will also compare the changes in the Chinese management accounting practices and give opinions on the possible future outlook of the cost and management accounting landscape. According to the research on contemporary management accounting in China by Jason Zezhong Xiao and Rong-Ruey Duh, the most widely used techniques are, cost behavior analysis, cost allocation, responsibility accounting, and cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis. On the other hand, the lowest levels of adoption are techniques like the activity-based costing/management, kaizen costing, standard costing, and environmental accounting. This result is gathered by providing the firms with 25 management accounting practices and asking them...
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...competitors and clients, thus proving their flexibility in any business environment, whether turbulent or uncertain. Ensuring financial stability also requires adoption and use of an efficient management system. 1. What is Target Costing? Target costing of a product or job is sum total of the variable cost targets fixed for each element of cost (material, labor, power, consumables etc.) required to be incurred for producing that product or job estimated on zero-base principles, plus the fixed cost targeted on the same principles, so that the total cost plus the estimated margin of profit is not more than the price the product is capable of fetching in the market. Zero base principle is the variable cost incurred for producing zero units of the product and from that position what is the incremental variable cost for each unit plus the fixed targeted cost (Rent, Rates and taxes, advertisement, communication etc.) required to set up the facility to produce an estimated number of units. 2.Why is Target Costing important for corporations yearning to have market share and profitable future? The Advantage of Target Costings: 1. We have a cost goal to achieve within the selling price, on realization of which there can be no loss. Cost Optimization: A primary advantage of target costing is that it allows you to analyze the best way to make or acquire products at the lowest costs. Minimizing costs is a common financial goal of any small business, regardless of whether they...
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...through their efficient supply chain management. They want further improvement in this sector (Chiron, 2011). Supply chain is the systematic and organized way of delivering the product or service from the supplier or the manufacturer to the final customer where the raw material become finished product to met the customer demand and need. Mainly supply chain activities are the summation of the transformation of the raw elements or the buying products for further sale to the finished product involving the organization, people, activities, and the resources and the delivering the product to the desired customer (Chopra, 2014). Buying, selling, management and processing all are the part of the Tesco Company and also the supply chain section. Supply chain management is the collection and the interrelation of the several departments that help the organization to be specialized and efficient. The interrelation is the basic process of continuing the information through the company. Plan of the improvement in supply chain of Tesco Company: For the further development of the Tesco the company is trying to get the plan about the supply chains as the dynamic and changing environment of the business force the company to be modernized and flexible. There are so many interrelated side of the supply chain and the plan is also very critical and complicated Information processing: All the departments of the Tesco Company will have the common information about the supply chain of this company so...
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... STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING DELIVERING STRATEGY: THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT’S ROLE WORKSHOP NOTES 2014 AUTHORS: RICHARD COMERFORD AND PETER ROBINSON REVISED BY: BRIAN CLARKE Published by Deakin University on behalf of CPA Australia Ltd, ABN 64 008 392 452 © CPA Australia Ltd 2014 (Edition 14a) The contents and any information contained in this document (Information) are for general information only. They are not intended as professional advice. For any professional advice, please consult a suitable qualified professional. CPA Australia Ltd, Deakin University and the author(s) of the Information (Entities) make no representation about the content and suitability of this Information for any purpose. The Entities disclaim all warranties with regard to the contents and in no event will be liable for any loss and/or damage whatsoever resulting from loss of income or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising in connection with the use and performance of and/or reliance of the Information. CPA PROGRAM – PROFESSIONAL LEVEL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING DELIVERING STRATEGY: THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT’S ROLE WORKSHOP NOTES 2014 AUTHORS: RICHARD COMERFORD AND PETER ROBINSON REVISED BY: BRIAN CLARKE Contents Workshop notes Workshop introduction Workshop objectives Workshop purpose Case Study: Pavlova Pty Ltd (PPL) Module 4: Techniques for creating and managing value Product costing at PPL Strategic...
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