DESCRIPTION: As a historied plant that was developed by several industry uses, ACF ultimately become an original plant site of Bridgeton Industries. The whole production of ACF was sold to the Big-Three automobile manufacturers, major competitors were the local&foreign suppliers and intracompany plants. Production processes of six major products (as fuel tanks, manifolds, etc.) were diverse from each other. ACF was using the relatively old cost system of ‘one plant-wide overhead pool’, in which
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Managerial accounting is different from cost accounting in that it takes into account more than the cost of the perpetual inventory system; it also has to make decisions based on the needs of the whole company. Cost accounting deals with the process of tracking recording and analyzing costs that are associated with a company’s product or project. As an internal manager, they are the ones that normally use the cost accounting information. Direct costs, indirect costs and overhead costs are what
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needed to be implemented on the cost management system. Aerotech's corporations management was being misled by the traditional product-costing system, because the high-volume product lines were being over-costed and the low product line was being under-costed. The high-volume products essentially were subsidizing the low-volume line. The traditional product costing system failed to show that the low-volume products were driving more than their share of overhead costs. As a result of these misleading
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Learning Team C Week 3 Case Study BYP 4-2 ACC349 April 4, 2011 Learning Team C Week 3 Case Study BYP 4-2 [pic] [pic] (a) |Activity cost pool |Estimated overhead |Cost drivers per activity |Total cost driver activity |Activity-based overhead rate | |Market analysis |$1,050,000 |Hours of analysis |15,000 hrs |$1,050,000 =$70 | | | |
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£99,000 Sale Staff salaries £259,200 Warehouse Staff wages £120,960 Administration Staff wages £122,946 General Overheads £700,000 £1302,496 Activity | Cost Driver | Design Staff salaries | No. of Consultations with design staff | Sale Staff salaries | No. of items sold | Warehouse Staff wages | No. of items sold | Administration Staff salaries | Purchase orders | General Overheads |
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Traditional cost allocationmethodologies in firms can provide misleading information about the profitability of products, product lines, customers, and markets. Activity Based Costing (ABC) attempts to create the big picture, crystal-clear, full, and accurate information in a firm. The following are some of best practices of ABC for a multinational firm: Phase One includes assessment phase that included project planning, team training, development of resource matrices, and coordination with
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The classic pen had a profit margin of at least 20% of sales. Five years earlier, this company had introduced red pens using same technology at 3% premium. Recently, this company was introduced purple pens using same technology at 10% premium. Based on this cases, there are several issues that facing by management of company. First issue is regarding profitability. The new red and purple pens do seem more profitable rather than the classic pens, but overall profitability of the company is falling
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in order to implement an activity-based costing system. As stated in the case, these costs will be used for planning and control decisions rather than inventory valuation. The activity-based costing system will provide better allocation of Glaser’s overhead costs rather than a system to look at the cost drivers or the activities that their overhead costs comprise. Glaser’s general structure of an activity-based costing model should consist of cost objects, activities, consumption of resources
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that uses the German-based costing system. It was founded in 1937 and is the biggest German automaker in the world, as well as the second biggest automaker in the world. The annual financial statements of Volkswagen AG have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB – German Commercial Code). The main function of costing systems is help companies determine the cost of a product related to the revenue it generates. Two of the more common costing systems used in business
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per day. The underutilization of the carton factory will lead to cost inefficiencies which could result to higher production costs and consequently higher selling costs which will prevent the company from being competitive in terms of pricing. Costing In the carton factory, each order was a job. Both labor and factory overhead costs were estimated annually. Estimating costs annually may be a cause for concern and can lead to erroneous estimation of costs due to the long length of time considered
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