www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 6, No. 11; November 2011 Activity-Based Costing System in the Service Sector: A Strategic Approach for Enhancing Managerial Decision Making and Competitiveness Ashford C. Chea School of Business, Kentucky Wesleyan College 4721 Covert Avenue, Evansville, IN 47714, USA Tel: 1-812-471-9341 E-mail: achea@ix.netcom.com Received: June 21, 2011 doi:10.5539/ijbm.v6n11p3 Accepted: July 4, 2011 Published: November 1, 2011
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budget of another business unit based on performance indicators. For the issues with Ferguson & Son, Tom Emory’s statement regarding not knowing if the accounting department’s reports would reflect a good or bad performance shows a lack of communication within the organization. It seems the accounting department and the business owners are not communicating well because the business owners are not being kept informed of how they are performing and accounting is unaware of the business reasons
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Technology on the Accounting Profession University of Phoenix ACC/340 Accounting Information Systems Effects of Technology on the Accounting Profession Businesses have become more competitive, consumers are more informed, and technology has changed the way the world communicates. Information technology (IT) and the resulting ‘information age’ are continuously impacting every facet of accounting. (Bagranoff, Simkin, & Strand-Norman, 2006) This paper will examine how accounting information systems
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Activity Based Costing in the Public Sector By: Brandy Medina Public sector organizations at all levels and of all types are facing intense pressure to do more with less. Governments at all levels in almost all the countries in the world are feeling some kind of pressure. The pressure on spending comes from many sources, i.e. from politicians aiming to win taxpayers’ approval. There is pressure from the competition with other cities to attract homebuyers or with other counties, states or nations
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Management Accounting IEX Prof. Dr. Michael Lederer . Dr © Copyright : Prof. Dr. Michael Lederer Hochschule Furtwangen – Furtwangen University © Copyright : Prof. Dr. Michael Lederer Page 1 Contents overview management accounting A. Introduction and basic concepts A.1 Cost terms A.2. Costing systems and cost allocation A.3 Cost-volume-profit analysis A.4 Operations accounting 5 11 26 63 78 B. The budgeting process B.1 Budgeting B.2 Variance analysis © Copyright : Prof. Dr
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Activity Based Costing: Success is in the Eye of the Beholder By Kim Soin First draft: Please do not quote without the authors’ permission. All comments and suggestions are welcome Correspondence to: Dr Kim Soin The Management Centre Kings College, University of London, Franklin- Wilkins Building 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 8WA Direct Phone Line and Fax: 0207 848 4093 E-mail: kim.soin@kcl.ac.uk 1 Activity Based Costing: Success is in the Eye of the Beholder Abstract The literature on
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A1. Costing Method to Activity-based Costing As Competition Bikes Inc. looks forward towards the future, understanding Activity-Based Costing and the differences from Traditional Cost accounting will help the company be more accurate and efficient which will in turn make the company more viable in their current market. This section will review what activity-based costing is and the benefits which it can have for Competition Bikes. Activity-based costing is when manufacturing overhead costs are
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Problems and Perspectives in Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, 2014 Emmanuel K. Oseifuah (South Africa) Activity based costing (ABC) in the public sector: benefits and challenges Abstract Peter Drucker (1986), in “Management: Tasks, responsibilities, and practices” states that business enterprises and public-service institutions, are organs of society which do not exist for their own sake, but to fulfil a specific social purpose and to satisfy need of society, community, or individual. To
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management accounting innovations An overview of its recent development Nur Haiza Muhammad Zawawi Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia and School of Accounting, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and Management accounting innovations 505 Zahirul Hoque School of Accounting, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of paper is to present a review of the literature on management accounting innovations
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social and environmental cost accounting using methodologies such as activity-based costing (ABC), life-cycle assessment (LCA), and full cost accounting (FCA) (Epstein, 2008). ABC assumes that activities related to products, services, and customers cause the costs. ABC first assigns costs to the activities performed by the organization (direct labor, employee training, regulatory compliance) and then attributes these costs to products, customers, and services based on a cause-and-effect relationship
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