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A3. Reading through the case study, a few issues caused the cost failure that John Deere Component Works (JDCW) experienced in the 1980s. First, in the 1970s, John Deere spent over $1 Billion in plant modernization, expansion and tooling hoping to meet higher demand levels - profits were rising John Deere began to explore product expansion, which led to the $1 Billion spent on manufacturing plants. Instead, the external factors like falling commodity prices and collapsing farmland values left a
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Solution to the Wilkerson Case Igor Baranov Executive Summary Taking into account the difference among product and high proportion of overheads, Wilkerson should abandon its existing cost system and move to activity-‐based costing. The profitability analysis indicates that the company earns healthy margins on pumps and valves. However, the margin of flow controllers at actual usage of capacity is negative
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Management Accounting Wilkerson Case Report * Contents Executive Summary 2 Competitive situation faced by Wilkerson 2 Wilkerson’s Existing Costing System Limitation & Possibility of Activity Based Costing 4 Cost Driver and rates under Activity-based Costing 6 Implication and Recommendations 8 Valves 8 Pumps 9 Flow controllers 9 Executive Summary Wilkerson traditional costing system seems to be too simplified. Using a single allocation base to allocate manufacturing
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Isu dan cabaran dalam pelaksanaan Rancangan Malaysia dan cadangan penambahbaikan Malaysia – A success story 2 Rancangan Malaya 9 Rancangan Malaysia Parliament Building (1963) National Mosque (1965) Federal Territory Mosque (2000) Malaysia Trade Centre (2006) Terengganu International Airport Terminal (2007) Kuala Lumpur International Airport (1998) SILK Kajang Interchange Sayong Bridge CIQ Complex, Johor (2007) Submarine Bay, Sepangar Bay, Kota Kinablu
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to explain the apparent high cost of producing some of the products. Harrison agreed with his production manager and is convinced that the cost accounting system is at fault. He has hired Tom Arnold, a management consultant, to analyze the firm's costing system. Arnold has documented the existing costing system. It is a very simple system that uses a single allocation rate for all overhead costs. The overhead rate for the year is determined by adding together the budgeted variable and fixed overhead
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Case Study: Pavlova Pty Ltd (PPL) Module 4: Techniques for creating and managing value Product costing at PPL Strategic management accounting tools and non-manufacturing activities Module 4 review questions Module 5 introduction – Project management Project selection NPV and sensitivity analysis Project planning – PERT Project implementation Project completion and review Module 5 review questions 1 2 2 3 3 8 11 20 23 24 25 28 29 30 31 32 Workshop
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Q2 Why were (a) Lourdes and (b) Greg so interested in having the company change its cost system? The both have 2 concern, better decision making and bigger bonuses. Lourdes concern that if she has better information she can make better pricing decision and do better sales planning. While Greg will have better info for making process improvement which can reduce the cost. the information they have might lead to production in larger batches and lesser shipment. if they make better decision
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Wilkerson Company Analysis June 30th, 2014 1. If Wilkerson were to cut prices, based on contribution margin, to just cover short-term variable costs, what consequences could it experience? Contribution margin-based pricing attempts to maximize profit generated from the sale of each unit of product by maximizing the difference between that product’s price and variable costs, or contribution margin. Under this pricing strategy, only variable costs, which increase with a higher sales volume and
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and labors compared to other two products. Also, there are more variety in the types of flow controllers used in industry. Wilkerson raised flow controller prices by 10%, but there was no effect on demand. Wilkerson’s existing cost system is a simple cost accounting system. According to the case, the overhead costs were allocated to products as the percentage of direct labor cost. Each unit of product was charged for labor cost and direct material. In addition, variable
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