Christopher Dark ACC350-1302A-04 Phase 2 Project In managerial accounting there are two types of cost information, variable and fixed costs. Variable costs are costs that change when some variable used in the cost to produce a product changes. For example if you were in the business of producing knives, then the price of the metal used to manufacture those knives would be your variable cost. Another variable cost that has to be accounted for in the cost of manufacturing is labor costs and
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Jose Manuel Jr. Professor Kam ACCT 3200 February 25, 2013 Skyview Manor The analysis of this case study is based on three different scenarios: 1) Regular Season, 2) Off Season, and 3) Raised Rates. To begin our analysis, Skyview Manor’s Contribution Margin Income Statement must be calculated to look for the cost behaviors. A cost behavior relates to the fluctuation of an activity. Next, we need to calculate the fixed cost. Luckily, the fixed cost will be unchanged during each scenario unless
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To begin, download the practice Midterm Exam from Doc Sharing to access questions and topics for review. For multiple-choice questions, please explain why the answer chosen is correct, and why the other choices would not be correct. Please support your response. Let's begin with the questions on Page 1. Page 1 1. Indirect labor is a part of: B. Conversion cost. Labor that cannot be physically traced to particular product is treated as indirect labor and as manufacturing overhead. Conversion
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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WORLDCOM, INC. Dennis R. Beresford Nicholas deB. Katzenbach C.B. Rogers, Jr. Counsel Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Accounting Advisors PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP March 31, 2003 I. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................. 1 A. The Nature of the Accounting Fraud....................................................................... 9 1. 2. B. C. D. E. Reduction of Reported Line Costs ............
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Individual Case Study Siemens Electric Motor Works A 1. Briefly describe the competitive environment in which Siemens operates, and how its products, processes and strategy have changed. Siemens was one of the largest companies in the world. However, there was only one factory, Electric Motor Works (EMW) which was part of manufacturing industries division and primary manufactured refrigerator motors, was survived after the World WarⅡ. After rebuilding the factory, EWM started to produce electric
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Case Study 2: Springfield Express Keller Graduate School of Management A. What is the break-even point in passengers and revenues per month? Break-even point (sales) = Fixed Cost/ Contribution margin = 3,150,000/ 160-70 = 3,150,000/ 90 = 35,000 per unit Break-even
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WorldCom: The Final Catalyst 1. WorldCom created excess reserves or provisions for future expenses, which they later released or reduced, thereby adding to profits. The manipulation of profit through reserves or provisions is known as “cookie jar” accounting. According to the SEC first, WorldCom improperly released certain reserves held against operating expenses. Second, WorldCom improperly recharacterized certain operating costs as capital assets. 2. I am uncertain, but I believe the Arthur
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Index 1. Income statement (Contribution Margin) | | 2008 | | | 2009 | | | 2011 | | 10,153 | Per Unit | Budgeted Amount | 9,967 | Per Unit | Budgeted Amount | 13,063 | Per Unit | Budgeted Amount | Sales | $815 | 8,279,000 | | $814 | 8,117,000 | | $816 | 10,656,000 | VC | $468 | (4,750,000) | | $467 | (4,654,000) | | $467 | (6,106,000) | CM | $347 | 3,529,000 | | $347 | 3,463,000 | | $349 | 4,550,000 | FC | | $(3,230,000) | | | $(3,333,000) | | | $(4,921,000) | NI |
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1.0 How do the formats of the income statements shown on pages 33 and 50 of Benetton’s annual report differ from one another (disregard everything beneath the line titled “income from operations”)? Which expenses shown on page 50 appear to have been reclassified as variable selling costs on page 33? A. The income statement shown on page 33 exclusively shows the contribution margin. This format is used for internal company analysis. Benetton has chosen to show it as a part of annual report. The
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cost to their respective activities. The cost assigned per activity is also assigned to respective products required for each activity. With traditional costing methods manufacturing costs are only assigned to goods that have been sold rather than accounting for nonmanufacturing costs. There are steps to activity-based costing: Identifying the cost of each activity and estimated the total cost and indirect cost Estimate the cost driver for each activity and the total quantity for each driver’s allocation
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