Individual Paper: Activity-Based Costing Matija Karaula Individual Paper: Activity-Based Costing Sippican Corporation Course: B2B Pricing: Negotiation, Calculation, and Strategy Matija Karaula B2B Pricing: Negotiation, Calculation, and Strategy Individual Paper: Activity-Based Costing 1) Defining the problem The main problem of a Sippican corporation was a low pre-tax operating income (1.8%). To solve that problem, a cause had to be found. Sippican reported gross margins of
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Costing Methods ACC/561 March 12, 2012 Monique Smalling Super Bakery Super Bakery is a virtual company that handles only core functions of the business while all other aspects are outsourced. Even though the bakery became a leader in the institutional baked goods market the company had reoccurring issues containing costs and ensuring the quality of their products. The management team at Super Bakery decided to implement and activity based costing plan to help maximize profits
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(controller) opinions are: 1) Material and labor cost are related to products produced. 2) Competitors marking different assumption about overhead costs. 3) Currently using traditional costing system-preparing financial reports and tax returns. 4) Introduced revised cost systems. 5) Proposed Activity based costing as initiated by Scott. Since Destin is not seeing any noticeable competition in the FC market, price could easily be raised the $3 to produce the 35% profit margin budgeted for (Exhibit
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Bakery's ABC system Accounting 561 February 18, 2013 Dr. McDonald Super Bakery's ABC system Super Bakery is a company founded by former Pittsburgh Steelers, Franco Harris. The company makes mineral-, vitamin-, and protein-enriched doughnuts. This paper will explain the strategies they used and why management found necessary to use Activity-Based-Cost system. The opinion of this writer will explain if agrees or disagrees the implementation. This paper will recommend a costing system and
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CHAPTER 5 ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT 5-16 (20 min.) Cost hierarchy. 1. a. Indirect manufacturing labor costs of $1,200,000 support direct manufacturing labor and are output unit-level costs. Direct manufacturing labor generally increases with output units, and so will the indirect costs to support it. b. Batch-level costs are costs of activities that are related to a group of units of a product rather than each individual unit of a product. Purchase
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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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Audrey Hausner From: Heather Varez HV Subject: G.G. Toys Internal Cost Study and Costing Methods Date: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 The internal cost study has brought up issues of costs related to alternative drivers for the machine related expenses, increased setups, production runs and work in packaging and shipping. Cost System Recommendation I recommend that G.G. Toys institute an Activity Based Costing (ABC) system in their Chicago plant. In allocating overhead as a percentage of direct
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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 of $1,078 in valves but these negatives effects would be counteracted by a gain vs ABC of $179,110 to come to net gain of $1,012 under standard costing. This favorable advantage of the standard costing is going to be lost if the price of pumps continues to come down plus Destin is losing money on every flow controllers. The reason for
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1. Question : (TCO A) Managerial accounting provides all of the following EXCEPT _____. Student Answer: future-oriented information a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP internal reports that don't follow GAAP financial and nonfinancial reports on departments Instructor Explanation: Chapter 1, page 4 Points Received: 6 of 6 Comments: 2. Question : (TCO A) Borders Books is an example of a Student Answer: manufacturing-sector
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Assignment 1 - Part 1: Volume-Based Costing Systems This part will show an analyses of product costs and profitability for the Salewa Case. We start with a description of assumptions and methods that are used for the calculations. To calculate the amount of costs each product should be carrying based on traditional absorption costing we first started with calculating the fifth years sales for each product. In order to obtain these we summed up all quarterly sales of the products. Total revenues
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