known as job order cost accounting that will generate timely and accurate inventory information. Job order cost accounting is used by many businesses that have to meet the specific needs of multiple customers by producing or performing custom jobs. There are still companies out there that rely on a general accounting system which consists of periodic inventories, this does not benefit them due to many discrepancies involved with these types of inventories. A cost accounting system records using
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ROBERT S. KAPLAN Wilkerson Company The decline in our profits has become intolerable. The severe price cutting in pumps has dropped our pre-tax margin to less than 3%, far below our historical 10% margins. Fortunately, our competitors are overlooking the opportunities for profit in flow controllers. Our recent 10% price increase in that line has been implemented without losing any business. Robert Parker, president of the Wilkerson Company, was discussing operating results in the latest
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Manage, control and ensure that company accounting activities and procedures conform to generally accepted accounting principles • Ensure that all financial transactions are handled and processed in-line with the approved policies and procedures. • Oversee the daily operations of the finance department • Prepare the monthly financial reports with all needed financial and costing analysis comparing with Budget and KPIs. • Manage the preparation of the official annual report
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Uitwerking Case 8-1 Allied Office Products Door: Joey de Klerk (481002) en Roel van Berkel (468870) Introductie Allied Office Products is a large corporation that builds its reputation on its annual sales of $900 million in business forms and specialty in paper products. Its paper products vary from envelopes to greeting cards and writing papers. Allied has incorporated a new program called Total Forms Controls (TFC) for its clients enabling Allied to separate this business forms division
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The Emergence of Activity Based Costing The Traditional cost accounting methods were designed around 1870-1920 and in those days industry was labour intensive and there were no machinery. The product variety was small and the overhead costs in companies were generally low compared to today. During the 1980s, it became clear the conventional techniques for recovering overheads were increasingly providing the management with cost information that was inaccurate and misleading. As a result new
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complete the management of staff on the incoming workload of an annual fiscal cycle. | Managerial accounting entails developing the structure of a business project from the aspect of designing how productivity occurs within the timeframe of the project upgrades. For instance, you are the senior level management supervisor of maintenance department. You are to devise a strategy to cut the cost of production from the beginning of a project’s completion and implementation into the first stages of
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For the exclusive use of J. Wang, 2016. 9-101-092 REV: AUGUST 5, 2003 ROBERT S. KAPLAN Wilkerson Company The decline in our profits has become intolerable. The severe price cutting in pumps has dropped our pre-tax margin to less than 3%, far below our historical 10% margins. Fortunately, our competitors are overlooking the opportunities for profit in flow controllers. Our recent 10% price increase in that line has been implemented without losing any business. Robert Parker, president
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CPA PROGRAM – PROFESSIONAL LEVEL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING DELIVERING STRATEGY: THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT’S ROLE WORKSHOP NOTES 2014 AUTHORS: RICHARD COMERFORD AND PETER ROBINSON REVISED BY: BRIAN CLARKE Published by Deakin University on behalf of CPA Australia Ltd, ABN 64 008 392 452 © CPA Australia Ltd 2014 (Edition 14a) The contents and any information contained in this document (Information) are for general information only. They are not intended as professional advice
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September 17, 1998 Classic Pen Company: Developing an ABC Model The Classic Pen Company Case Jane Dempsey, controller of the Classic Pen Company, was concerned about the recent financial trends in operating results. Classic Pen had been the low-cost producer of traditional BLUE pens and BLACK pens. Profit margins were over 20% of sales. Several years earlier Dennis Selmor, the sales manager, had seen opportunities to expand the business by extending the product line into new products that offered
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