Program Area Costs Best Case Worst Case Justification Administration Salaries Administrator $60,000 Assistant $35,000 $30,000 Reduce weekly hrs Two Secretaries $42,000 $21,000 $21,000 Only one secretary Supplies $35,000 $20,000 Cutting back on supplies may be difficult for the company to maintain without proper supplies Advertising/Promotion $9,000 $4,500 $1,000 Because the company is already established it is very likely that advertisements can be cut down and have new patients
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MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Based on Management Accounting by Robert N. Anthony Nearly every business enterprise has an accounting system, that is, a means of collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting, in monetary terms, information about the business. In studying these systems, it is useful to consider them as consisting of two parts that are labeled financial accounting and managerial accounting, although in practice the two are not neatly separated. Financial accounting has the primary
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CHAPTER 1: COST MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY EXERCISES 1-24 Strategy; Real Estate Services (15 min) This exercise can be used to provide a good perspective for the students to see the role of cost management in solving business issues, and in placing the management accountant in more of a leadership role in the firm. It also provides an early motivation for the cost behavior issues to be discussed later in chapter 3 and chapter 8. The management accountant has a hunch that the company is about
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BUS | Course Number: 5433.62 | Course Title: Managerial Accounting | Course Description and Overview:The success of all business organizations requires the use of accounting concepts and practices. Accounting provides key data to managers for planning and controlling as well as for costing products, services and customers. In order to be an effective manager, one must understand the basics of both financial and managerial accounting. This course is designed to help the manager better understand
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Chapter 10 THE PRODUCTION BUSINESS PROCESS TEACHING TIPS I usually gloss over the materials on job costing, for my students have covered job costing in their Cost/Managerial course. I do emphasize the need for good ledger control over property, plant, and equipment. THE PRODUCTION BUSINESS PROCESS Production Planning and Control. A sales order or sales forecast cause the creation of production orders which specify items that should be produced. Materials are requisitioned and production is scheduled
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING Study Material Prepared By INSTITUTE OF COST AND WORKS ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA for Junior Accounts Officer(Civil) Examination Conducted By CONTROLLER GENERAL OF ACCOUNTS 1 BASICS OF COST ACCOUNTING 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Evolution of Cost Accounting, Cost Concepts and Cost Classification Introduction Evolution of Cost Accounting Financial Accounting and Cost Accounting Management Accounting Financial, Cost and Management
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Managerial Accounting July 28, 2015 Process Costing Process costing is used when there is mass production of similar products, where the costs associated with individual units of output cannot be differentiated from each other. In other words, the cost of each product produced is presumed to be alike as the cost of every other product. Process costing is for companies that produce standardized products in huge quantities. You have to take certain steps in process costing. Process costing involves
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has activities as the fundamental cost objects and assumes that activities cause costs and that cost objects create demands for the activities. A traditional costing system uses a single, volume based cost driver. In most cases the traditional system assigned the overhead cost to products on the basis of their usage of direct labor. For this reason traditional cost systems often yields inaccurate product costs and becomes inadequate in terms of calculating true cost to produce specific products for
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ACCOUNTING H525: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING AND CONTROL Winter Quarter 2004 INSTRUCTOR: Professor D. L. Jensen 428 Fisher Hall jensen.7@osu.edu (I check my e-mail several times daily and will respond ASAP) 292-2529 at office (Please leave recorded message; if I'm not in, I'll return your call.) 488-8177 at home (Please leave recorded message; if I'm not in, I'll return your call.) Office Hours: By appointment or chance COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT: Ms. Rama Ramamurthy 640 Fisher Hall
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© 1998 American Accounting Association Accounting Horizons Vol. 12 No. 4 December 1998 pp. 363–373 Financial Information and Quality Management—Is There a Role for Accountants? Leif M. Sjoblom Leif M. Sjoblom is a Professor at the International Institute for Management Development. SYNOPSIS: Different opinions exist with respect to the usefulness of financial information for operational decision making. While academics encourage the provision of accounting information on quality, few companies
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