Zainol Page 1 of 10 OFFICE USE ONLY ACW2020 COST INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKING Question 1 (20 marks) (a) Describe the inventory accounts that are used to keep track of the cost flows in a manufacturing firm. (b) What is activity-based costing, and
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Managerial Decision Making, Case 2, Greetings Inc. Activity Based Costing |Case 2 | | Greetings Inc.: Activity-Based Costing | |This case is from the book: Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision | |Making, 5th Edition | |Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso | |©2010 | |And was answered by some students. | | | | | 1. Activity Based Costing benefits businesses that are more complex in nature. In this case, Greetings. INC has added a new product
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Conversely as the production of hamburgers decreases so does the total annual cost of the raw materials. Building rent: Building rent is a fixed cost. Fixed costs are un-expired assets or expenses whose total does not change in proportion to the activity of a business, within the relevant time period or scale of production. (Fixed Cost) Building rent is a constant cost throughout the year or the life of the contract. This cost does not change with an increase or decrease in production of hamburgers
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Activity-based costing, or ABC, is a method of assigning costs to products or services based on the resources that they consume. this is a more logical manner than the traditional approach of simply allocating costs on the basis of machine hours. Activity based costing first assigns costs to the activities that are the real cause of the overhead. It then assigns the cost of those activities only to the products that are actually demanding the activities. Activity-based costing became popular in
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contributing to the use of activity based techniques Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a costing methodology used to trace overhead costs directly to cost objects, i.e. products, processes, services, or customers. Costs are assigned to specific activities (e.g. engineering, manufacturing or purchasing) based on their use of resources and costs are assigned to cost objects based on their use of activities. ABC recognizes the causal relationship of cost drivers to activities. ABC techniques enable
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between the departments as follows: Department Annual indirect costs Production 560 000 EUR Assembly 240 000 EUR TOTAL 800 000 EUR Calculate the full cost per unit for Product X and Product Y using traditional full costing approach (apportioning total overhead based on total direct labor cost) Please briefly explain your calculations. Problem No. 3 The Busy Ball Company makes two types of bouncing balls; one has a hollow center and the other has a solid center. The same equipment is
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Running head: COSTING METHODS PAPER Costing Methods Paper Marsha Pettus University of Phoenix Accounting ACC/561 Bethany Kessel November 27, 2013 Costing Methods Paper Super Bakery, Inc. was founded by Franco Harris, formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers, in 1990. The corporation supplies healthy, vitamin enriched doughnuts and other baked goods, out of an initial desire to make a difference in the institutional food market by targeting school systems nationwide
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Christopher Bonner BUS630: Managerial Accounting (NAH1313A) Instructor; Brian Shaw Middlehurst House Analysis: Case 9A in Chapter 9 Middlehurst House Analysis: Case 9A in Chapter 9 As we are familiar with the case, we feel that two very important issues have not been addressed which in sufficient detail, given that it may influence the profitability of the business venture. These are General: (1) The allocation of capital by both the partners and the stockholders (2) Auditing of
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Case 16 Movie Exhibition The strategic issue in the movie exhibition case includes the decline in attendees. The customer base is declining and is hurting the net income of the exhibitions. The most profitable sectors are the concessions and advertising. An increase in the price of ticket sales may drive attendees even further away. If attendees keep decreasing, advertisers will withdraw their purchases and the entities will be left with concessions. The industry as a whole is feeling
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24,000 | 5,400 | 600 | 60,000 | Total Operationg Income | $10,000 | $80,000 | $2,070 | $300 | $20,370 | Return on Sales | 13.3% | 13.3% | 14.8% | 18.2% | 13.50% | Exhibit 2: Direct Cost and Activity Cost Drivers | Blue | Black | Red | Purple | Total | Production Sales Volume | 50,000 | 40,000 | 9,000 | 1,000 | 100,000 | Unit Selling Price | $1.5 | $1
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