Case Method Approach to Teaching Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Susan Machuga University of Hartford This paper presents a Multi-Disciplinary Case-Method approach to teaching Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis allowing students to use their own assumptions to simulate a real-life business startup analysis. The proposed business venture is one of starting a milkshake shack in the island of Hawaii. Students will learn to distinguish between fixed and variable costs, apply some of their own assumptions
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but outperformed the industry as a whole. Following the general recessionary trend of the market, Lehigh Steel reported record losses in 1991 after posting record profits in 1988. This had led to an increasing need to rationalizing Lehigh Steel‟s product mix. Traditionally, Lehigh Steel has followed Standard Cost Method for cost accounting. Jack Clark, CFO of Lehigh Steel has given Bob Hall the task of implementing Activity Based Costing at Lehigh Steel. Mark Edwards, Director of Operations
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1. Cost accounting relates to what industry? a. public accounting b. financial accounting c. service d. manufacturing 2.Sunk costs are ______. a. future costs b. costs that do not affect the decision c. costs from the past and cannot be changed. d. choice b & c are both correct 3.Which is not a characteristic of managerial accounting information? a. Emphasizes the external financial statements b. Emphasizes relevance c. Provides detailed information about individual parts of the company
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Chapter 1 3 Controls for Differentiated Strategies 597 Case 13-3 Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard Texas Instruments (TI) and Hewlett-Packard (HP) developed, manufactured, and sold high-technology electric and electronic products. Texas Instruments had three main lines of business in 1984: components, which includ ed semi conductor integrated circuits, semiconductor subassemblies, and electronic control devices; digital products, which included minicomputers, personal com puters, scientific
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Traditional based costing (TBC) is a method a company may use to find the cost of a product in relation to the revenue it creates. It is used to designate manufacturing overhead to units made (Chron, 2013). Activity-based costing identifies activities that a company executes, then designates indirect costs to each product. The ABC determines the cost for each activity and allocates the cost to their respective activities. The cost assigned per activity is also assigned to respective products required
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critical profit drivers of your business including- sales volume, average cost of production and the average sales price. The calculation indicates the average number of units your business has to sell to cover set up costs (in a start up business), to cover fixed costs in an established business, or to achieve a desired profit level. For information on using this calculator see below. Number of product units to be sold to breakeven or result in nominated profit Total sales income Gross profit margin
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Cost Volume Profit (CVP) Formulas: Contribution margin = Sales - Variable expenses (manufacturing and non-manufacturing) Net operating income = Contribution margin - Fixed expenses (manufacturing and nonmanufacturing) Contribution margin ratio = Contribution margin / Sales Break even point (units) = Fixed expenses / Unit contribution margin Break even point (dollar sales) = Fixed expenses / CM ratio Units sales to attain target profit = (Fixed expenses + Target profit) / Unit contribution
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“This document is attributed to Donald N. Stengel” Attributed to Donald N. Stengal Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books/ Saylor.org 1 Chapter 1 Introduction to Managerial Economics What Is Managerial Economics? One standard definition for economics is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. A second definition
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basic paper products lines at one of its plants: computer paper, napkins, place mats, and poster board. Although the plant superintendent, Marlene Herbert is pleases with increased sales he is also concerned about the costs. The superintendent is concerned with the high fixed cost of production, the increases in fixed overhead and even variable overhead. He feels that the production of place mat should be discontinued. His reason for the discontinuation is that the special printing is driving
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is established. The desired profit margin is subtracted from the target selling price to determine the target cost. If the target cost is below the company’s current cost, the company may decide to introduce the product and functional cost analysis may attempt to reduce cost to an acceptable level. If the target cost is above the current cost, functional cost analysis will make changes and prepare another cost estimates. If the target cost is equal to current cost, company may decide whether or
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