is managerial accounting and how does it differ from financial accounting? 11. In your opinion, what are the two most significant differences between the two disciplines? WHY are these so important? 12. What are the three major areas of management responsibility (information needs) that
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Andre’s Hair Styling 05/15/2016 Draft A cost accounting system (also known as product costing system or costing system) is an outline utilized by businesses to guesstimate the cost of their manufactured goods for lucrativeness evaluation, inventory valuation and cost control. Appraising the precise cost of products is precarious for moneymaking operations. A company needs to recognize which products are lucrative and those that are not, and this can be determined when it has assessed the accurate
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How Activity Based Costing differs from Conventional Costing Introduction Costing is used in business as a way of determining the cost of manufacturing/offering a product/service. Costing systems determine the overhead (indirect) cost of production and then allocate those overhead costs to a business’ products or services offered. There are two common methods for allocating these indirect costs to products. Activity Based Costing (sometimes referred to as “ABC” Costing) and Traditional Costing
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CHAPTER 4 JOB COSTING 41 Cost pool––a grouping of individual cost items. Cost tracing––the assigning of direct costs to the chosen cost object. Cost allocation––the assigning of indirect costs to the chosen cost object. Costallocation base––a factor that links in a systematic way an indirect cost or group of indirect costs to a cost object. 42 In a jobcosting system, costs are assigned to a distinct unit, batch, or lot of a product or service. In a processcosting system, the co
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named as Verizon. Verizon had more than $22 billion in cash flow. * It had $6 billion revenues and 260,000 employees * It was the largest local phone company in the US * It was also the largest wireless phone company Management Problem: The management needed to determine whether the investments in the HR department were effective and valuable. Some of the questions specific to this problem are: * What is the most effective use of training dollars? * How to reduce customer
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Activity-Based Costing and Predatory Pricing: The Case of the Petroleum Retail Industry DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. What are product-cost subsidizations? When excessive costs are charged to high-volume products while insufficient costs are charged to low-volume products. One example of how this occurs is when product-costing is based on labor-hours. Products that are produced infrequently will typically require less annual man-hours when compared to major products. Calculating the costs
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Costing Methods Paper LaKeisha R. Fields ACC/561- Accounting July 15, 2013 Facilitator: Shirley Smith Costing Methods Paper Introduction-Absorption vs. Variable Costing In managerial accounting there are two cost methods that can be utilized for the purpose of presenting financial data in a manufacturing environment. They consist of absorption and variable costing methods. Although they are somewhat similar they have key differences that impact a company. In absorption costing the profit
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direct and indirect costs per package for both the products and get approximately $ 3.95 for headless shrimp and $ 6.34 for peeled and deveined shrimp. 2. Budgeted cost per package – Activity-based costing For activity based costing, the first step is to calculate the budgeted cost allocation rate per activity (Hilton, 2008, p. 172) as shown
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ACTIVITY BASED COSTING ➢ Cost attribution to cost units on the basis of benefits received from indirect activities e.g. ordering, setting up, and assuring quality. ➢ Most overhead cost can be analyzed between the following: ➢ A) Short term variable cost, that varies with the volume of production. ➢ B) Long term variable cost that do not vary with the volume of production, but do vary with a different measure of activity. ➢ Kaplan and cooper have suggested that long term
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Many of the local and national headlines are calling attention to how universities will be handling large budget cuts and tumbling balances in endowment funds. The market downturn and struggling economy are mainly to blame for these budget cuts. As a student, my main concern is will I still be able to take the courses I need and want. Our textbook offered a look at break-even analysis, and the article I selected shows how break-even analysis can be used by universities to determine the profitability
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