Case #15 Destin Brass Products Co Harvard Business School Case #9-190-089 (Rev. April 24, 1997) Questions 1. Explain how costs are estimated in the three cost systems delineated in the case: (a) The traditional cost system, (b) the modified cost system, and (c) the activity based costing (ABC) system. How do you determine which cost system is better suited for a given company? The traditional cost accounting system in Destin is built on measurements of direct and direct costs and on assumptions
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3. Consider two products in the same product line: Product 1 Product 2 Expected Selling Price $62 $54 Standard Material Cost 16 27 Standard Labor Cost 6 3 Calculate the expected gross margins as a percentage of selling price on each product based on the 1988 and 1990 model year budgets, assuming selling price remains constant and material/labor costs do not change from standard. 4. Are the product costs reported by
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Jessica Turner has a master's degree in accounting and an undergrad degree in business. She established Turner Test Prep, a CPA exam review center, after being rejected by the Big Six accounting firms. She decided to bring the company into existence when she was searching for other employment options, and also because she had experience in the field when she worked at a review center's business office before taking up her master's degree. There, she inadvertently started teaching the math portion
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Topics/Case Descriptions Measuring Product Costs Case: Seligram, Inc.: Electronic Testing Operations Case Description: Explores the obsolescence of a cost system when technology changes. In particular, it asks students to increase the number of cost centers and allocation bases. The firm moves from a one-center, direct labor-hour system to a three-center, direct labor-hour and machine-hour systems. In addition, the case demonstrates how cost systems can induce
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First, remember that, with this case, we are addressing the “second stage” of the cost accounting effort. During this stage we “attach” a mission center’s costs to the products that pass through it. This is quite easy if all prod- ucts are the same, but more difficult if there is a mix of products. For example, in the Owen Hospital situation in the lecture, all dialyses were the same, so all we needed to do was divide the mission center’s total costs by the number of dialyses to get a cost per dialysis
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Topics/Case Descriptions Measuring Product Costs Case: Seligram, Inc.: Electronic Testing Operations Case Description: Explores the obsolescence of a cost system when technology changes. In particular, it asks students to increase the number of cost centers and allocation bases. The firm moves from a one-center, direct labor-hour system to a three-center, direct labor-hour and machine-hour systems. In addition, the case demonstrates how cost systems can induce
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Topics/Case Descriptions Measuring Product Costs Case: Seligram, Inc.: Electronic Testing Operations Case Description: Explores the obsolescence of a cost system when technology changes. In particular, it asks students to increase the number of cost centers and allocation bases. The firm moves from a one-center, direct labor-hour system to a three-center, direct labor-hour and machine-hour systems. In addition, the case demonstrates how cost systems can induce
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ACCOUNTING 525: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Winter Quarter 2003 INSTRUCTOR: Professor D. L. Jensen 428 Fisher Hall 292-2529 at office (Please leave recorded message; if I'm not in, I'll return your call.) jensen.7@osu.edu (I check my e-mail several times daily and will respond ASAP) OFFICE HOURS: By appointment or chance STUDENT ASSISTANT: Ms. Yun Jin (jin.81@osu.edu) REQUIRED TEXT AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: Horngren, Foster and Datar, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 11th edition
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apprehension because competitors had been reducing prices on pumps, Wilkerson’s major product line. Since pumps were a commodity product, Parker had seen no alternative but to match the reduced prices to maintain volume. But the price cuts had led to declining company profits, especially in the pump line (summary operating results for the previous month, March 2000, are shown in Exhibits 1 and 2). Wilkerson supplied products to manufacturers of water purification equipment. The company had started with
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apprehension because competitors had been reducing prices on pumps, Wilkerson's major product line. Since pumps were a commodity product, Parker had seen no al ternative but to match the reduced prices to maintain volume. But the price cuts had led to declining company profits, especially in the pump line (stmunary operating results for the previous month, March 2000, are shown in Exhibits 1 and 2). Wilkerson supplied products to manufacturers of wa ter purification equipmen t. The company had started
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