COSTING METHODS Costing methods for Super Bakery University of Phoenix ACC/561 December 19, 2011 Timothy W. Williams, Ph.D. Costing methods for Super Bakery Super Bakery is a virtual corporation created in 1990 by Franco Harris, developing a network of supply for “donuts and other baked goods aimed for the institutional food market” (Kimmel, et al, 2009, pg 867). According to Kimmel, et al (2009), “only the cores, strategic functions of the business are performed
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“Is Activity-Based Costing (ABC) superior to “traditional” costing in which only one overhead pool is used? Response: I believe Activity-Based Costing is superior to “traditional” costing methods. It has a better way of facilitates the delegation of the decision making for a company. It also helps the management set goals that all the mangers agree on. According to Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, “Activity-based costing (ABC) is a two-stage product costing method that assigns costs first
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Business Costing Technique Chosen PROCESS COSTING 1 2 2 2 Assumptions Processes of Manufacturing Beer DEPARTMENT ONE: STAGE 1 - MIXING DEPARTMENT ONE: STAGE 2 - BREWING DEPARTMENT TWO: PACKAGING 3 4 4 4 5 Process Costing DETERMINING FIGURES CALCULATING COST PER EU 6 7 8 Cost Reconciliation Recommendations CAPPING & LABELLING BOTTLES & UTILITIES TRANSPORTATION 9 10 10 11 11 Introduction of Outpatient Business Costing Technique Chosen ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC)
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systems be implemented within this particular industry? Does an industry exist in which the job order and the processing cost systems would not be suitable? Explain your rationale." Business - Accounting Alternative Costing Methods The text presents job and processing costing systems as virtual “polar extremes,” there are many situations where it may be best for a company to use a hybrid system that combines attributes of both systems. Describe such a situation and discuss how the hybrid system
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. | Activity Based Costing | | | | | . | Executive Summary The success of any business that offers a product or service is greatly dependent on the ability of the products it offers to compete in a market. If a firm can determine its costs and the demand at each possible price offering it is likely to find the market price that maximizes profit. (Bakken, 2012). Hence, it is important that companies employ strategies that will ensure that cost allocation is accurate
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Costing Methods Paper The Super Bakery Case Paula Mack-Days ACC 561 June 4, 2012 Professor William Montgomery Costing Methods Paper Super Bakery used four defined strategies and they are 1) successful in changing the school’s decision of removing donuts from the lunch menu and supply the cafeterias with the Super Donut, a low-calorie and vitamin-enriched donut; 2) provided refrigerated baked goods and changed to national distribution; 3) outsourced to independent contractors which would
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4-14. Traditional vs. ABC The following cost information is available for Senkowski, Ltd.: Activity | Allocation Base | Volume of Activity | Overhead Cost | Purchasing | Purchase orders | 30,000 | $150,000 | Receiving | Shipments received | 15,000 | 60,000 | Machine setups | Setups | 2,500 | 200,000 | Quality control | Inspections | 18,000 | 90,000 | Direct materials are $15 per unit for luxury handbags and $11 per unit for deluxe handbags. There were 12,500 direct labor hours, each
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Introduction According to Chand (2015), costing techniques are used by management for controlling cost and making managerial decisions. It systematically records expenses and analyses the cost of each product manufactured or service rendered by an organisation (Hariharan, n.d.). Firms choose to adapt to a specific costing theory that caters accordingly to their needs and objectives. Part 1: Evaluation of Costing Theories Costing theories are very important in business decision making. According
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CEO salary, etc. $ 30,000 per year. * These manufacturing overhead costs are company-wide and fixed: they do not vary with the volume of manufacturing activity. The company allocates overhead costs using the traditional method. Its activity base is
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effective for the CB. Competition Bikes is using a traditional based costing (TBC). There needs to be a comparison between the current use of TBC and activity based costing (ABC) to decide which is most beneficial to the company. Also, the breakeven point to cost volume profit needs to be evaluated. There is a potential for a $50,000 increase in production and a 10% material cost increase. A1 Costing Method Traditional Based Costing is, “The allocation of manufacturing overhead (indirect manufacturing
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