Cost accounting has long been used to help managers understand the costs of running a business. Modern cost accounting originated during the industrial revolution, when the complexities of running a large scale business led to the development of systems for recording and tracking costs to help business owners and managers make decisions. In the early industrial age, most of the costs incurred by a business were what modern accountants call "variable costs" because they varied directly with the amount
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market or the prices set for the objective achievements are actualized. There are several techniques put forwards by companies to ensure profit generation during their operations. Some of these techniques includes target costing, benchmarking and activity-based budgeting. Target costing This is not a new idea as far as a successful companies operation is concerned. It can be defined as the method that is implemented in determining the cost at which a product having particular parameters must the produced
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INTRODUCTION OF TARGET COSTING Target costing is a system of profit planning and cost management. The required features and performance of the proposed product are established. Then target costing determines the life cycle cost at which the product must be produced, to generate the firm’s desired level of profit. Given the product’s anticipated selling price (Cooper and Slagmulder,1999, p.166). Note that target costing is not a method for product costing , it is a technique for cost management.
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needed. Activity-based costing (ABC) has been suggested as the leading contender method to replace traditional cost accounting systems, due to its capability to make the processes and activities performed in the organization more transparent and observable. This paper reports the main results of a research project which aimed to develop a cost accounting system capable of providing useful information to manage production processes in construction and devise a model that integrates this system to the
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Introduction Destin Brass Products Co. is a Florida based manufacturing company specializing in brass components that are used in fluid distribution systems within the water purification industry. They operate one manufacturing facility and focus on the machine and assembly steps of three products: valves, pumps and flow controllers. Recently, Destin has been facing increasing price competition on their line of pumps which is causing them to continually reduce prices resulting in lower margins
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a letter that came from the only mass merchandiser, Buy 4 Less, complaining of poor performance. Buy 4 Less is looking for Happy Chips to increase deliveries by one per week to ensure no stockouts occurred, install an automated order inquiry system costing $10,000 to increase customer service responsiveness, and to decrease prices by five percent. Happy Chips management decided to complete a segment profitability analysis to see where they may be able to increase company profits. Through extensive
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1. The budgeted profit for the period under the absorption costing has been calculated as $210,000. It has based on production of 30,000 and sales of 35,000 units. Budgeted fixed overheads were $105,000. What is the budgeted profit under marginal costing? 2. Which of the following statement concerning the valuation of the inventory is correct: A. It is impossible to say whether absorption or marginal costing will give the higher value without further information. B. The values under
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condition has incentivized Chinese firms to improve their management accounting practices. Subsequently, the traditional costing method is also facing a sudden threat by the influx of ABC/M, Target Costing, Responsibility Accounting, etc. Presented with new ideas, this essay will discuss the popular cost management accounting trend in China, specifically the responsibility cost control system. I will also compare the changes in the Chinese management accounting practices and give opinions on the possible
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3. Trauscht Corporation has provided the following data from its activity-based costing system: The company makes 340 units of product P23F a year, requiring a total of 710 machine-hours, 80 orders, and 40 inspection-hours per year. The product's direct materials cost is $40.05 per unit and its direct labor cost is $14.35 per unit. The product sells for $121.90 per unit. According to the activity-based costing system, the product margin for product P23F is: A. $9,223.20 B. $7,853.60
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as already mentioned, the company is using the simple-costing method for its product allocation, and, therefore, inadvertently misallocates its product costs for specific grades. Instead of spreading the costs uniformly to all grades using the material costs as a cost driver, the company should use the activity-based costing system to allocate its product costs. That way, the cost of each of the grades will be allocated based on how much activity (grade changes, slitting) it actually used. Moreover
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