Wilkerson operates under a simple job-costing accounting system. It accounts for distinct cost objects. For example, it produces unique and different products for its customers such as valves, pumps and flow controllers. Direct material and labor are directly charged to the product (based on production units) and indirect overhead costs are allocated using one cost pool, direct labor production run time at 300%. The problem with this simple cost accounting system is that the products they make consume
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TUTORIAL #1 Q1. What does the firm’s cash conversion cycle represent? What is the financial manager’s goal with regard to it? Why? Ans: A firms’ cash conversion cycle represents the time it takes a firm to convert investments into cash. The financial manager’s role is to reduce this cycle to reduce cost that can then be reinvested in the firm Q2 How should the firm manage its inventory, accounts receivable, and accounts payable in order to reduce the length of its cash conversion cycle
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 History of the organization Mantoz enterprise is a top notch branding company that was formed in 2004. It’s a company that focuses mainly on corporate clients and offers a one-stop-shop for branding solutions. 1.2 Functions or core activities of the company 1.3 Vision, mission statement and core values of the institution The vision of the company is “to become a one stop branding and printing solutions provider through the latest technologies available while
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Budget Planning and Control Anita Wright Professor Mohamed Gurey ACC556 – Financial Accounting for Managers December 11, 2015 Introduction A company I started working for a couple of months ago as a Finance manager is Home Depot. Since I own a home, I know how expensive it is to maintain. I do a lot of shopping there for various items and appreciate the reasonable prices as well as the valuable advice from my associates. The store has everything one could possibly need to help turn a
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http://hwcampus.com/shop/acc-400-final-exam/ 1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of managerial accounting? A. Reports are used primarily by insiders rather than by persons outside of the business entity. B. Its purpose is to assist managers in planning and controlling business operations. C. Information must be developed in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles or with income tax regulations. D. Information may be tailored to assist in specific managerial
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Accounting System in a Company Almost all the countries in the world allow foreign companies to compete with domestic firms nowadays, which make the costs of spending in the international trade plummet over the past decades. However, global markets provide more potential for the competitive companies. In other words, the companies have to face more challenges. If they can’t win the game, they will vanish from the global market. It is not a game winning by the capital; it is a competition with
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CHAPTER 2: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS/JOB COSTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1. The major differences between managerial and financial accounting are: |Financial Accounting |Managerial Accounting | |External users of information—usually stockholders, financial|Internal users of information—usually managers. | |analysts, and creditors. |
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom WorldCom grew rapidly in the 1980-90s through its various inorganic acquisitions – the resultant was a corporation with a hotchpotch of diverse and unaligned cultures. Exacerbating the situation, the Management (including the Board of Directors and CEO Ebbers) did little,if anything, to address the multiplicity of deontological and consequential ethics coexisting at WorldCom. CEO Ebbers in fact called an internal effort to create a corporate code of conduct a “colossal
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To: ALLTEL Pavilion From: Huirui Liu Subject: Individual Memo Date: 11/13/2014 The ALLTEL Pavilion is an outdoor amphitheater that provides live concerts to the public. The mission of the company is “a concert…it’s better live†and the job of the staff during a concert is to make sure every customer of the ALLTEL Pavilion has a pleasure experience. So the strategy of ALLTEL Pavilion is differentiation. The critical success factor for Pavilion to achieve its goal of continuous annual growth
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Case Study: (for the whole exercise we suppose that the rental for the space costs $200.00) After reviewing the website of Sam’s club, we noticed that we could buy a snack vending machine starting from $898.00. Now, let’s suppose that we will have only one type of snack bars, which is Lay’s chips. If we purchase 50 packets, the supplier will charge us $35.50 ($25 for the product and $10.50 for the shipping), which makes the cost to be $0.71 per packet. So, $1.50 may be an ideal price that we charge
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