plants and three construction sites. The company has to figure out a way to satisfy the demands of the three construction sites using the cement it produces and transport the cement from its plants to the construction sites at the minimum transportation cost possible. The solution to the transportation problem was arrived at by solving the problem using the ‘Solver’ tool in Microsoft Excel. I would like to thanks Dr. Hitesh Arora for guiding me through with the course curriculum of Decision Making
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ACCT 222 ( Kelvin ) WENDY’S CHILLI 1. The cost of ground beef is a joint cost. The ground beef is made into beef patties which are used first for hamburger. However, the “well-done” beef patties that cannot be served as “hot ‘n juicy” old-fashioned hamburgers will be used to make chili. At this point, the ground beef patties used for hamburgers and the ground beef patties used to chili split off and become separately identifiable. 2. Hamburgers account for 55% of Wendy’s total sale, while
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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (BBA) COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (BBA 314) COURSE WORK SEMESTER ONE: 2012/2013 Henry Egyeyu 07/U/456/BAK/PS Tel: +256774366667/+256714366667 Question: Accounting theory and practices have identified financial management, financial accounting and management accounting as distinct entities and granted them independent status. Unfortunately, cost accounting which also appears to many users of accounting data and information
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ernesto) subject: PRODUCT COST´S ANALYSIS date: [ 8/3/2012 ] cc: dr. Jeff Schatzberg Following-up the estimates cost, we got product costs using the overhead cost activity analysis, and the estimate costs are, Valves $ 37.70 per unit, Pump $ 48.79 per unit and Flow controllers $ 100.76 per unit. Comparing standard unit cost vs the costs estimated by overhead cost activity analysis, we found that it would be losses in flow controllers of $177,020 in comparison with ABC, as well as a small loss
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traditional cost accounting methods are misleading where there is diversity in the no of products manufactured. The case highlights the importance of Process-Oriented Costing approach. The cost structure of the firm suggests that the production related and support related overheads form 33.0 and 26.0 percent of total costs. Since the firm manufactured almost 10,000 different types of motors, allocation of support related overhead costs can be crucial for the operation of the firm. Table 1. Cost of base
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pp. 2–8. 35. S. Datar, S. L. Kulp and R. A. Lambert, “Balancing Performance Measures,” Journal of Accounting Research, 39, no. 1 (June 2001), pp. 75–92; G. A. Feltham and J. Xie, “Performance Measure Congruity and Diversity in Multi-Task Principal–Agent Relations,” The Accounting Review, 69, no. 3 (July 1994), pp. 429–53; R. A. Lambert, “Contracting Theory and Accounting,” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 32, no. 1–3 (December 2001), pp. 3 –87; and G. Baker, “The Use of Performance Measures
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caused in the management accounting milieu, it seems destined to play an important role in the direction that teaching and research may adopt in the near future. In fact, the accounting literature is already witnessing an increasing number of articles regarding the lack of relevance of management accounting systems (MAS) in the decision making process of the firm. The book of Johnson and Kaplan (J&K) is implicitly divided into three parts. Part I—^The Rise of Management Accounting, chapters 2 through
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III. Two Stage Cost System Analysis The two stage method is always used in Activity-Based Costing, which assigns resource costs to cost objects base on separate activities. In stage one, the total overhead costs are allocated to the separate activities base on different resource drivers. In stage two, the costs of activities are allocated to each cost object base on cost drivers. In this case, because the wages and depreciation costs can be traced directly to each workstation, we only need to
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The Goal Chapters 31 – 45 1. Give two examples from Alex’s company to illustrate the notion of “common sense is not common at all.” First, according to the cost-accounting rules that everybody has used in the past, Alex’s company is supposed to balance capacity with demand first, and then try to maintain the flow. However, instead they shouldn’t be trying to balance capacity at all; they need excess capacity. The rule they should be following is to balance the flow with demand, not the capacity
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Chapter 12 Standard Costs and Variance Analysis Solutions to Questions 12-1 A quantity standard indicates how much of an input should be used to make a unit of output. The quantity might be measured either in terms of units of direct materials or hours of direct labour time. A price standard indicates what the cost of the input should be. 12-2 Ideal standards do not allow for any imperfections or inefficiencies. Thus, ideal standards are rarely, if ever, attained. Practical standards allow
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