CHAPTER 5: ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS 5-1 Product costs are likely distorted when a firm uses a volume-based rate if the plant has more than one activity in its operations and not all activities consume overhead in the same proportion. The more diverse the product mixes of the plant are in volume, sizes, manufacturing processes, or product complexities, the greater the cost distortions are likely to be in using a volume-based rate. Undercosting a product may appear to have increased
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CHAPTER 4 JOB COSTING TRUE/FALSE 1. Direct costs are allocated to the cost object using a cost-allocation method. Answer: False Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: cost-allocation base Indirect costs are allocated to the cost object using a cost-allocation method. 2. Quality control costs may be a direct cost of the Manufacturing Department, but an indirect cost of an individual job. Answer: True Difficulty: 2 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: job
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1. (TCO F) Buckhorn Corporation bases its predetermined overhead rate on the estimated machine hours for the upcoming year. Data for the upcoming year appear below. Estimated machine hours - 85,000 Estimated variable manufactruring overhead - $5.55 per machine hour Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead - $951,888 Compute the company's predetermined overhead rate. Total variable manufacturing overhead = $5.55 * 85000 = $471750 So, total predetermined overhead = $951888 - 471450 =
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Source: http://www.allbusiness.com/accounting-reporting/methods-standards-cost-accounting/498244-1.html#ixzz1nMWBS5qI By Juras, Paul E. ABSTRACT Descriptions of activity-based-costing (ABC) systems have become a standard part of managerial accounting texts. While ABC implementation issues are the focus of a number of articles, these issues are often not addressed in a typical textbook. This case is designed to familiarize you with the behavioral and technical variables that can aid or impede
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Module outline Management Accounting & Applied Finance (MAAF) 12 September 2013 Chartered Accountants Program Overview Management accounting is about making better business decisions; the practical understanding of key drivers for adding value to a business; and how these are tied to the decision-making process. It’s about helping people run their businesses more efficiently and effectively in order to achieve the desired outcomes such as increasing returns or delivering improved services
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STANDARD COSTING SYSTEMS OF TWO COMPANIES CERTIFICATE FROM THE ORGANISATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Sr. No. | Chapter Name | Page No. | 1. | Acknowledgement | 5 | 2. | Preface | 6 | 3. | Objective and Introduction | 7 | 4. | A Brief about the two Companies | 8 | 5. | Standard Costing System | 12 | 6. | Findings | 15 | 7. | Conclusion | 17 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We owe much gratitude to all the people who have helped and supported us during the conduct
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Reflection Paper 2: Chrysler While preparing for the Chrysler article I became interested in the idea of absorption costing and how it influenced operations management, so I spent some time reading about this issue. Chrysler was facing excess capacity (more cars than consumers) and high fixed costs including factory leases and labor. Absorption costing allows companies to calculate the cost of making a product by dividing the total costs by the total number of products made (including the cost
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Technical Briefing APRIL 2001 DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING STRATEGY Activity-based Management – An Overview IN THIS BRIEFING… ctivity-based management and activity-based costing (ABM/ABC) have brought about radical change in cost management systems. ABM has grown largely out of the work of the Texas-based Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing-International (CAM-I). No longer is ABM’s applicability limited to manufacturing organisations. The principles and philosophies of activity-based thinking
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especially important as it pertains to both operational decisions (such as calculating the maximum price a firm can charge, especially for a "commodity" product, determining the maximum cost a firm is willing to pay to provide this product or service, and in making special order and transfer pricing decisions) and capital/long-term decisions (such as make-or-buy component decisions, continue or discontinue a product line decisions, process further decisions, etc,). Cost allocation can also be used to reduce
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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 3e William N. Lanen University of Michigan Shannon W. Anderson Rice University Michael W. Maher University of California at Davis FUNDAMENTALS OF COST ACCOUNTING Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2011, 2008, 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or
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