Assignment Title: Financial Business Report on Apache Electronics Name: Fitzroy A Sherwood Student Registration number: 1306059 Module: BE162 Financial Decision-Making Introduction In this assignment, I will be providing a formal business report to my bank manager stating the launch of a new business that will be importing goods to the United Kingdom. I will also be describing my chosen business and the three products and their prices that
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Business Research – July/August 2010 Volume 26, Number 4 A New Look At Management Accounting Mohammad Talha, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia John B. Raja, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia A. Seetharaman, S P Jain Center of Management, Singapore ABSTRACT This paper presents a comparison of the traditional management accounting with the new approach of management accounting with the use of latest information technology and manufacturing technologies. The information
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twenty first century, and in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the business world was rocked with news of financial and accounting scandals at major Fortune 500 companies. Enron, a Texas based energy company, lied about profits and was accused of concealing debts so they did not show up in the company’s accounts (BBC News, 8/22/2002). Arthur Andersen, an accounting giant, member of the “Big Six”, and Enron’s corporate auditor, collapsed completely after being found guilty of deliberately destroying
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Eunice Eng Yoke Fang PBS1311031 Case Study (Galvaset) Company Background: Information Provided: Direct Labour Rate = $ 20 per hour Expected Production Level = 50 000 units Labor Hours Required = 200 000 hours Activity (Cost Driver) | Budgeted Costs for 2010 | Cost Driver Used as Allocation Based | Cost Allocation Rate | Material Handling | $ 325 000 | Number of parts used | $ 0.25 per part | Cutting & Lathe Work | $ 2 340 000 | Number of parts used | $ 1.80 per part | Assembly
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To: Board of Director’s Audit Committee From: Director of Internal Audit RE: Audit of Generic Hospital Report Corporation Date: Feb 5th, 2014 I. Introduction: Many questions have arisen regarding the quality and efficiency of the in-house maintenance group. All four departments have consistently gone over their maintenance budget by an average of $200,000 per year, including a total of $250,000 spent on rework at extra cost. The aim of this audit is to identify any control weaknesses
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Baluyot, Krishia Mae E. BSAV-2A Scandals that Rocked the Accounting World ❖ Enron Scandal The Enron Corporation led to bankruptcy Last October 2001. It is an American energy company based in Huston, Texas, and the termination of Arthur Andersen, which was one of the biggest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world. Enron is also attributed as the biggest audit failure. Enron was founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay after merging Houston Natural Gas and Inter North several years
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Target Profit And Break Even Analysis; Case 4-33; Managerial Accounting Case 4-33: Cost Structure; Target Profit and Break Even Analysis Question 1: Compute Pittman Company’s break-even point in sales dollars for next year assuming: a. The agents’ commission remains unchanged at 15% $12,000,000 in sales is needed to break even while employing an outside sales force with commissions of 15% of sales. b. The agents’ commission rate is increased to 20% $13,714,286 in sales is
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Production and Perfect Competition In the first calculation, the total fixed costs = $1,000,000 and the total variable costs equals to $4.4 million, with four million for wages and 50,000 workers multiplied by $80 per worker, plus $400,000 of other variable inputs. The average variable cost equals to $22 million, with total variable costs of $4.4 million divided by 200,000 units. Worker productivity equals to 4, with 200,000 units of output divided by 50,000 workers. The loss is $400
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CHAPTER 9 Break-Even Point and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis QUESTIONS 1. The variable costing income statement classifies costs by the way they behave. Variable costs are deducted from revenues to determine contribution margin and then fixed costs are deducted from contribution margin to determine operating profit. Break-even analysis involves a study of fixed costs, variable costs and revenues to determine the volume at which total costs equal total revenues. Hence, variable costing
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