ACCOUNTING 5130 SPRING 2016 (8 WEEK) SYLLABUS AND COURSE OUTLINE INSTRUCTOR: Peggy Jimenez, PhD, CPA OFFICE: BLB 329L EMAIL: Peggy.Jimenez@unt.edu (do not email me via Blackboard). I generally respond to student e-mails within 24 hours Monday-Friday. PHONE: 940-369-3093 OFFICE HOURS: Mondays 10:30am-12:00PM and by appointment. During these times I will be in my office and you are welcome to stop by with questions or concerns. If it is more convenient, I can also discuss via e-mail, online
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compared to other two products. Also, there are more variety in the types of flow controllers used in industry. Wilkerson raised flow controller prices by 10%, but there was no effect on demand. Wilkerson’s existing cost system is a simple cost accounting system. According to the case, the overhead costs were allocated to products as the percentage of direct labor cost. Each unit of product was charged for labor cost and direct material. In addition, variable
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Wilkerson operates under a simple job-costing accounting system. It accounts for distinct cost objects. For example, it produces unique and different products for its customers such as valves, pumps and flow controllers. Direct material and labor are directly charged to the product (based on production units) and indirect overhead costs are allocated using one cost pool, direct labor production run time at 300%. The problem with this simple cost accounting system is that the products they make consume
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TUTORIAL #1 Q1. What does the firm’s cash conversion cycle represent? What is the financial manager’s goal with regard to it? Why? Ans: A firms’ cash conversion cycle represents the time it takes a firm to convert investments into cash. The financial manager’s role is to reduce this cycle to reduce cost that can then be reinvested in the firm Q2 How should the firm manage its inventory, accounts receivable, and accounts payable in order to reduce the length of its cash conversion cycle
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 History of the organization Mantoz enterprise is a top notch branding company that was formed in 2004. It’s a company that focuses mainly on corporate clients and offers a one-stop-shop for branding solutions. 1.2 Functions or core activities of the company 1.3 Vision, mission statement and core values of the institution The vision of the company is “to become a one stop branding and printing solutions provider through the latest technologies available while
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Budget Planning and Control Anita Wright Professor Mohamed Gurey ACC556 – Financial Accounting for Managers December 11, 2015 Introduction A company I started working for a couple of months ago as a Finance manager is Home Depot. Since I own a home, I know how expensive it is to maintain. I do a lot of shopping there for various items and appreciate the reasonable prices as well as the valuable advice from my associates. The store has everything one could possibly need to help turn a
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http://hwcampus.com/shop/acc-400-final-exam/ 1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of managerial accounting? A. Reports are used primarily by insiders rather than by persons outside of the business entity. B. Its purpose is to assist managers in planning and controlling business operations. C. Information must be developed in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles or with income tax regulations. D. Information may be tailored to assist in specific managerial
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Accounting System in a Company Almost all the countries in the world allow foreign companies to compete with domestic firms nowadays, which make the costs of spending in the international trade plummet over the past decades. However, global markets provide more potential for the competitive companies. In other words, the companies have to face more challenges. If they can’t win the game, they will vanish from the global market. It is not a game winning by the capital; it is a competition with
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CHAPTER 2: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS/JOB COSTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1. The major differences between managerial and financial accounting are: |Financial Accounting |Managerial Accounting | |External users of information—usually stockholders, financial|Internal users of information—usually managers. | |analysts, and creditors. |
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom WorldCom grew rapidly in the 1980-90s through its various inorganic acquisitions – the resultant was a corporation with a hotchpotch of diverse and unaligned cultures. Exacerbating the situation, the Management (including the Board of Directors and CEO Ebbers) did little,if anything, to address the multiplicity of deontological and consequential ethics coexisting at WorldCom. CEO Ebbers in fact called an internal effort to create a corporate code of conduct a “colossal
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