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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www.hbr.org T OOL K IT Time-Driven Activity- Based Costing by Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson • Many companie s abandoned activity-based costing because it did not capt ure the compl exity of their operations, took too long to implem ent, and was too expensive to build and maintai n. Here’s a way ar ou nd th ose problems. R eprint R0411J T OOL K IT Time-Driven Activity- Based Costing by Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson harvard business
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JET TASK 4 A1: Costing Method Report to the Vice President recommending whether the company should change its cost method - to activity based costing. Activity based costing is a method used in identifying activities companies perform thereby assigning indirect costs to products. Activity based costing (ABC) system recognizes the relationship between costs, activities and products, assigning indirect costs to products. (Investopedia, 2014) Competition Bikes, Inc. report to the Vice President
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expenses as well as for profit. Pricing is adjusted according to relationship and competitive situations. In the year 1999, Dakota has introduced electronic data interchange (EDI) and a new internet site in 2000, which allowed an automated ordering system that did not require a manual input of data. Even after those efforts, Dakota’s costs continued to increase. John Malone was concerned because the company could not make a profit. He wanted to take an action to regain profitability. John Malone
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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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1. Why was Dakota's pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? Currently, DOP's pricing system is pricing products by adding markup twice, which is marking up the purchased product cost by around 15% to cover the cost of warehousing, distribution, and freight. Then add another markup to cover the approximate cost, for general and selling expenses, plus an allowance for profit. We found that the existing pricing system is inadequate regarding to following points: The
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electrical appliances. Its market is very competitive in terms of both price and new product innovation. As a result product life cycles are short. Monk Plc’s managers are concerned about the reliability of its product costing system. It currently uses an absorption costing system, and absorbs overheads on the basis of budgeted direct labour hours. On this basis the estimated cost of its latest product, a talking electric kettle, is as follows: K per unit Direct material 9·00 Direct labour
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1 of 10 OFFICE USE ONLY ACW2020 COST INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKING Question 1 (20 marks) (a) Describe the inventory accounts that are used to keep track of the cost flows in a manufacturing firm. (b) What is activity-based costing, and
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MAA 703 Management Accounting Trimester 1, 2011 Assignment - A Group Case Study Due date: Monday 23 May 2011. Marks: 20% Length: approximately 1500 words This is a group assignment. Only in very exceptional circumstances will permission be given to complete an individual assignment. Details regarding assignment submission will be provided later. Please note the following requirements AND FOLLOW THEM CAREFULLY: • Your assignment should be presented as a Word document
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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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