Financial Statements 1. List the components that comprise a typical financial statement. Income statement, statement of owner equity, balance sheet, statement of cash flow 2. Describe how changes to a company’s revenue and expenses affect their Income Statement and Balance Sheet. Income statement presents the summary of revenues and expenses for a period of time. Changes in these two entity’s will affect the report of the company net income and net loss. 3. How do changes in the Income Statement
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ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING PROBLEM 1. Contrasting Traditional Costing & Activity-Based Costing The Columbus Company produces only two products: a major computer part and cell phones. The company uses a normal cost system and overhead costs are currently allocated using a plant-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours. Outside cost consultants have recommended, however, that the company use activity-based costing to charge overhead to products. The company expects to produce 4,000 computer
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The current costing strategy implemented in your company is not maximizing your ability to determine profitability of each product due to the incorrect cost allocation. You are currently using the strategy of “peanut butter” costing to assign costs to your current product line. Peanut butter costing is when you take the total costs of your products, in this case overhead, and spread them across your entire product line evenly. When you use this strategy, you can end up over allocating costs to
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Sippican Corporation Questions: 1. Given some of the apparent problems with Sippican’s cost system, should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? Answer: Consider Sippican is a manufacturer company with multiple products, using simple cost accounting system that directly allocate factory overhead to unit of product entirely through one single allocation
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2008, 1047–1069 Activity-based costing in flexible manufacturing systems with a case study in a forging industry K. REZAIEy, B. OSTADI*z and S. A. TORABIy yDepartment of Industrial Engineeing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, PO Box 11365/4563, Tehran, Iran zDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (Revision received August 2006) The objective of this paper is to apply the activity-based costing (ABC) approach together
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Text: Brewer/Garrison/Noreen, Introduction to Managerial Accounting, 5th Edition (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2010) Course Objective: Management accounting information system is designed to satisfy three broad objectives (1) To provide information for costing out products and services, (2) To provide information for planning, controlling, evaluation, and continuous improvement, and (3) To provide information for decision making. The purpose of
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Activity Allocation Base Volume Of Activity Volume Of Overhead Purchase Purchase order 30,000 150,000 Receiving Shipment Received 15,000 60,000 Machine Setups Setups 2,500 200,000 Quality Control Inspections 18,000 90,000 Direct materials are $ 15 per unit for luxury hand-bags and $ 11 per unit for deluxe handbags. There were 12,500 direct labor hours, each of which was charged to inventory at $ 18 per hour. Required A. Traditional- $320 Activity-based Costing- $252
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2011PGP629 Gokulnath R 2011PGP638 Kartik Shrivastava 2011PGP685 Sumit Prakash 2011PGP907 Upasana Mukherjee 2011PGP922 Vemb V 2011PGP932 The task is to evaluate the best costing alternative for Lehigh steel. For this, an improvised costing system is developed which overcomes the assumptions of ABC and TOC costing and the optimum product mix for Lehigh Steel is calculated using the same Executive Summary Lehigh Steel is a manufacturer of speciality steels for high strength, high use
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III. Two Stage Cost System Analysis The two stage method is always used in Activity-Based Costing, which assigns resource costs to cost objects base on separate activities. In stage one, the total overhead costs are allocated to the separate activities base on different resource drivers. In stage two, the costs of activities are allocated to each cost object base on cost drivers. In this case, because the wages and depreciation costs can be traced directly to each workstation, we only need to
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Chapter 07 Activity-Based Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making Solutions to Questions 7-1 Activity-based costing differs from traditional costing systems in a number of ways. In activity-based costing, nonmanufacturing as well as manufacturing costs may be assigned to products. And, some manufacturing costs—including the costs of idle capacity—may be excluded from product costs. An activity-based costing system typically includes a number of activity cost pools, each of which has its
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