Cost Methods Paper This week’s paper consists of writing about cost methods pertaining to Super Bakery, Inc. This paper will layout the strategies that the management of Super Baker, Inc. used, as well as discuss why management thought it was a good idea to an activity-based costing system into their business. The comparison of a job order cost system and a process order system will be analyzed to decide which would be the best fit for Super Bakery, Inc. Super Bakery, Inc. was founded by ex-National
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estimates calculated under each of the two costing systems are significant. This is especially the case with regard to Job order 973. The management accountant’s calculations for the cost estimates produce the following increase/ (decrease) in reported costs: Job order 973 Job order 974 $ $ Unit cost per job under existing system 1,172·00 620·00 Unit cost per job under activity based costing 1,612·00
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government sites), the costs of the various specialized subcontractors, the costs of the materials and the indirect costs associated with those costs. The company needs to do several things relating to their engineering costs. They need to set up a job costing system in which each project is set up as a special job. Any costs that are directly associated with that job need to be kept track of by type. The only way for the company to know how they are performing on each of their sale
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i. The allocation of the current method of allocating of warehousing and shipping cost is not really correct. The current method is direct method which ignores In term of Shipping and Warehousing cost, low volume products should incur this cost instead of both high volume and low volume products. Because, high volume products are deliveried directly to customer so it does not incur the cost of shipping. The low volume products which are sent to distribution center incurred the cost of shipping
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Sales price per unit, variable cost per unit and total fixed cost are constant. 3. All units produced are sold. Where the problem involves mixed costs, they must be split into their fixed and variable component by High-Low Method, Scatter Plot Method or Regression Method. CVP Analysis Formula The basic formula used in CVP Analysis is derived from profit equation: px = vx + FC + Profit | In the above formula, p is price per unit; v is variable cost per unit; x are total number
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Time-Driven ABC Companies have shied away from activity based costing, because it was not an accurate assessment of operations, time consuming and too expensive to build and maintain. As a result managers have veered away from using traditional ABC in their organizations, and needed to find a solution to the problem. The new approach relies on informed managerial estimates rather than on employee surveys. It also provides managers with a far more flexible cost model to capture all the complex
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structure of the existing (traditional) costing system? Evaluate the features of this system. Should Wilkerson abandon its overhead cost allocation system and make managerial decisions based on contribution margin (price less variable costs); thereby in effect using marginal costs rather than average costs? Note: only direct materials and direct labor costs are assumed to be variable here. 3. Compute revised product costs based on an ABC (activity-based costing) analysis. Interpret your findings
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estimate based on activity rates: 2. For each costing method, what is the gross margin per batch for each beer label, in dollars? What is the gross margin percentage? What is the total gross margin for each beer label? Plant-wide allocation method: ABC method: 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages for both allocation systems in #1? For the plant-wide allocation based on direct labor hours, the advantages include that it’s an easy method that doesn’t require much to calculate. You
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IT Consulting Skills: Unit 2 Assignment Jon Doe Kaplan University IT-402 Instructor 08.31.13 Questions asked to the client to challenge some of their assumptions and reveal their true needs: * Specifically, what area of the SAP program are you not able to implement? * This question is to determine the successes and limitations that they are currently experiencing to get a better picture of the current status of the implementation and whether they have met with any portion of
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Production-cost cross-subsidization results from | | | Student Answer: | | allocating indirect costs to multiple products. | | | | assigning traced costs to each product. | | | | assigning costs to different products using varied costing systems within the same organization. | | | | assigning broadly averaged costs across multiple products without recognizing amounts of resources used by which products. | | Instructor Explanation: | Chapter 5, Page 138 | | |
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