Scorecard? Is there any relation between spreading knowledge about the Balanced Scorecard and specific contingency variables? Traditionally managers evaluate performance with exclusively financial measures. The first performance evaluation models were based solely on financial measures (BANKER; MASHRUWALA, 2007; CORONA, 2009; LUFT, 2009; MARTIN; PETTY, 2000). However, over-emphasis on this assessment method may drive managers to try to maximize short-term financial results, thus harming the sustainable
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traditional cost computation led to the popularity of using activity based costing. The perspective at which the whole manner of computing the manufacturing cost associated with the end product is very radical compared to the traditional variable and fixed cost methods only. The activity based method depends on computing how much a physical resource is used for each individual activity in producing a product. The cost is computed using each activity with a cost tagged with it. The end computation would
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Broadening Your Perspective Broadening Your Perspective Ideal Manufacturing Company is an Illinois-based company which produces a farm and agricultural related machinery products. Research department is the only department in the company that has been contributing a new products for several years. The research department facilitates only in-house manufacturing departments and assist them in producing farm and agriculture related machine products. The Ideal Company has never sold his research
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past, but he has not done so as yet. Because of the product cost mess he has no order in management. He realizes his prices are too low, but he cannot figure out the product price structure and a course module pertaining to cost behaviors, product costing, and relevant costs. As a result, it is hard for him to give the exact price for four different kinds of glasses. Also, he only has a few thousand dollars. If he does not sell the products on time he will run out of money. The main solution is
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Solution to Case 8-1 Allied Office Products Prepared based on Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Anthony and Govindarajan’s Management Control Systems textbook. 1) Activity Based Costing service costs for the TFC business Value added activities Storage Requisition handling Warehouse activity Pick Packing Data entry Desk top delivery Total expense per activity $000 (1992) 1,550 1,801 761 734 612 250 Cost driver Cost driver units (1992) 350,000 310,000 775,000 697,500 775,000 8,500
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Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper was designed the activity based costing (ABC) method in 1988. It was felt that there was a need for more accurate and up-to-date information and a more proactive approach to planning and managing the costs. ABC is a process to identify the costs of all activities and allocating, applying, assigning or tracing costs to products. Activity based costing is a costing technique, tool, system, mechanism or approach. It may be used in addition to the current traditional
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of this course are: 1. To develop an understanding of the costing, cost calculation. 2. To develop understanding of application of different techniques of cost allocation. 3. To understand the relationship between cost and volume and application of this in making different decisions. 4. To develop ability to make different decisions by using accounting information. 5. To understand the application of budgeting and standard costing as controlling tool. 6. To apply the different tools of management
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CHAPTER 3 ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT Questions, Exercises, and Problems: Answers and Solutions 3.1 See text or glossary at the end of the book. 3.2 Disagree. This chapter deals with the problem of allocating indirect costs to products. Indirect costs can be the overhead costs incurred in manufacturing a good or providing a service. 3.3 Step 2 of ABC is to identify the cost drivers associated with each activity. These cost drivers can be selected based on causal relation, benefits received
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design an activity-based costing system and estimate product costs and gross margin percentages for valves, pumps and flow controllers. Justify your reasons for your ABC system design and computations. As per the ABC costing system, the 5 overhead cost drivers that can be identified are: A. Product Sustaining Activity Costs (i) Engineering Costs B. Batch Activity Costs (i) Receiving & Production Costs (ii) Setup Labor Costs (iii) Packaging & Shipping costs C. Unit Level Activities (i) Machine
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