Accounting Research, 2002, 13, 1–39 doi: 10.1006/mare.2001.0175 Available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on The association between activity-based costing and improvement in financial performance Douglass Cagwin* and Marinus J. Bouwman† This study investigates the improvement in financial performance that is associated with the use of activity-based costing (ABC), and the conditions under which such improvement is achieved. Internal auditors furnish information regarding company financial performance
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that people seek out”. The Walt Disney Company has long been widely admired as visionary and well-managed company. But how does Disney continually make the right calls in terms of investment capital, providing new attractions that appeal to its audience while earning a superior return for its shareholders? The company evaluated its existing business and new initiatives based on their ability to contribute to Disney’s long term cash flow and earnings growth, and to provide returns that exceed
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examples for each of the cost behaviour 10. Which should be less and more? 11. How are graphs for each types of cost behaviour? 12. Why in the short-term, some costs and revenues are not relevant for decision making? 13. What would be the effect on the profits if we reduce selling price and sell more units? 14. Should we pay workers on a basis salary only/commission only/combinations? 15. How would changes in sales volume affect the profits of the firms? 16. Definition
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Activity-Based Systems: Measuring the Costs of Resource Usage Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan Robin Cooper is a Professor at the Claremont Graduate School and Robert S. Kaplan is a Professor at the Harvard Business School. This paper describes the conceptual basis for the design and use of newly emerging activity-based cost (ABC) systems. TVaditional cost systems use volume-driven allocation bases, such as direct labor dollars, machine hours, and sales dollars, to assign organizational expenses
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Chapter 3 Systems Design: Job-Order Costing Solutions to Questions 3-1 By definition, manufacturing overhead consists of costs that cannot be practically traced to jobs. Therefore, if these costs are to be assigned to jobs, they must be allocated rather than traced. 3-2 Job-order costing is used in situations where many different products or services are produced each period. Process costing is used in situations where a single, homogeneous product, such as cement, bricks, or gasoline, is produced
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serves only manufacturing firms. Is Joe correct? Explain. 2.Distinguish between managerial and financial accounting as to (a) primary users of reports, (b) types and frequency of reports, and (c) purpose of reports. 3.How do the content of reports and the verification of reports differ between managerial and financial accounting? 4.In what ways can the budgeting process create incentives for unethical behavior? 5.Linda Olsen is studying for the next accounting midterm examination. Summarize for Linda
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be able to: L.O.1 Use budgets for performance evaluation. L.O.2 Develop and use flexible budgets. L.O.3 Compute and interpret the sales activity variance. L.O.4 Prepare and use a profit variance analysis. L.O.5 Compute and use variable cost variances. L.O.6 Compute and use fixed cost variances. L.O.7 (Appendix) Understand how to record costs in a standard costing system. For the second month in a row, profits at our Bayou Division are down and I don’t know why. We budgeted $190,000 in profit for
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......................................................................... 10 Key Considerations ..................................................................................................................................... 10 VI. Variable Costing
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* Question 1 1 out of 1 points | | | Managerial accounting is primarily focused on | | | | | Selected Answer: | B. providing managers with relevant information to help achieve organizational goals. | Answers: | A. providing the Internal Revenue Service with information to determine the amount of taxes owed. | | B. providing creditors information on the status of their loans. | | C. providing managers with relevant information to help achieve organizational goals. | |
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and offers suggestions for future research. The review differs from existing reviews by its specific focus on MAIs and the recent time period covered. In this paper, MAIs refer to the adoption of “newer” or modern forms of management accounting systems such as activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management, time-driven ABC, target costing, and balanced scorecards. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a review of findings from journal articles published in 22 notable accounting journals
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