MA360 EXAM SOLUTIONS – 2011 SECTION A Question 1 (a) |Selling Price per|Year 1 Sales Units |Year 1 Year End Stock units |Year 2 Unit Sales |Sales Revenue Year 1 | |Unit (£) | | | |(£) | |20,000 |800,000 |400,000
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Boswell Plumbing Products Boswell Plumbing Products produces a variety of valves, connectors, and fixtures used in commercial and residential plumbing applications. Recently a senior manager walked into the cost accounting department and asked Nick Somner to tell her the cost of the D45 valve. Nick quickly replied, “why do you want to know?” Noticing that the manager appeared somewhat startled by this question, he explained, “The cost information you need depends on the decision you’re going
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1. Responsibility accounting in modern health care organization is a type of management accounting which collects and reports both planned and actual accounting information in terms of responsibility centers about the inputs and outputs of responsibility accounting. A growing trend in the structure of health care organizations is decentralization. Decentralization is the degree of dispersion of responsibility within a health care organization. In a decentralized organization, decision making is
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Lecture 5: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis In this module, we are going to discuss a simple concept yet a powerful financial planning and decision-making tool for managers. This concept is called CVP analysis or cost volume profit relationship. Profits are the difference between revenues and costs. Both revenue and cost depend on the volume of operations. So, in the short run whether you make a profit or a loss depends upon the volume of sales you make. What is the unknown for a manager when
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Costing Methods: Super Bakery, Inc. George Mancuso ACC/561 Accounting March 18, 2013 Lisa Parker Abstract Super Bakery, Inc., a virtual corporation is a supplier of mineral-, vitamin-, and protein-enriched doughnuts and other baked goods to institutional food distribution centers nationwide (Kimmel, Weygandt, & Kieso, 2009). The company has grown at an average rate of 20% annually since 1990 but persistent challenges of identifying opportunities for cost efficiency in using traditional
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corporations in the world. Instead, it became the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history at the time and another name on a long list of those disgraced by the accounting scandals of the early 21st century. ACCOUNTING FRAUD AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Unfortunately for thousands of employees and shareholders, WorldCom used questionable accounting practices and improperly recorded $3.8 billion in capital expenditures, which boosted cash flows and profit over all four quarters in 2001 as well as the first
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9-6 Case 1. Assume that $300,000 of the fixed overhead cost can be reduced (avoided). The revised cost sheet will be as follows: Direct materials ($40 per robot) $800,000 Direct labor ($30 per robot) 600,000 Variable overhead ($6 per robot) 120,000 Allocated fixed overhead 200,000 Total $1,720,000 Cost of purchase from Chen Inc. $1,800,000 Saving in production at our place $80,000 Hence, the robots should not be purchased from Chen Inc. Case 2. Assume that none of the fixed overhead
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Week 15 Distance Student File 1 of 35 Problem 7 – Job Order Costing Jessica Company started operations on January 2, 20x6. The company manufactures custom products and uses a job order system. Overhead is allocated to jobs based on direct labour costs. The budgeted manufacturing overhead for 20x6 was $396,900 and the direct labour costs were budgeted at $567,000. At the end of 20x6, there were two jobs in work in process: Direct material cost Direct labour cost Job A605 $20,000 12,000 Job A608
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• Fuzzy Logic. Discuss what is it and identify and discuss some applications in IT. • B2B Applications Software, Strategies and tactics, and how it has improved business process. • B2C Application Software, Strategies and tactics, and how it has improved business process. • Medical Software Applications. If you know of any software you can discuss the software and its capabilities. • Virtual Reality. Discuss what it is and identify and discuss some applications.
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Ericka Hilliard The Enron scandal was a corporate scandal involving the American energy company Enron Corporation based in Houston, Texas and the accounting, auditing and consultancy firm Arthur Andersen that was revealed in October 2001 (Wikipedia Enron Scandal 2001). All of this started when there was a loophole discovered in the accounting department when they were allowed to book large sums of money from energy-derivative contracts at their gross value and not their net value. This tactic
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