CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS 1. The function of cost accounting is to provide the cost accounting information that is the basis for planning and controlling current and future operations. It provides the cost figures and analyses that management needs in order to find the most efficient methods of operating, achieving control of costs, and determining selling prices. 2. Originally issued for companies marketing products in Europe, a set of international standards for quality management
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The 1980s is known as the deregulation period for the banking industry and subsequently the increased competition of the 1980s and continuing in the 1990s. The themes of the 1980s and 1990s include total quality management, customer satisfaction, cost, quality and time, technology, market globalization, availability of capital and markets, and finally activity based costing. The purpose of this study is to summarize and analyze the implementation of ABC in the banking industry. Total quality management
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CLASSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION/ ACCOUNTING DISCIPLINES 1. The Accounting Profession The accounting profession may be divided into two disciplines, namely private accounting and public accounting. a) Private accounting These are accountants employed by a business firm or a NGO- frequently called management accountants. b) Public accounting This provides services on a fee basis. An accountant may practice as an individual or as a member of a public accounting firm. Public
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Stretch-reduction: Vast majority of 4 inch tubes are stretched & reduced in SRM machine into smaller dia. (0.5-2.5 inch). There is a production loss of 10 days when 4 inches are being cut. Production rates are minimum for smaller dials. iv. Finishing operations: Cost of storage of semi-finished tube is $400/ton. Various operations performed in finishing include zinc plating, threading tube ends, and adding caps before shipping to the customer. Problem Statement i. The inventory turnover is very low in spite
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A collection of techniques and tools can identify with how management’s decisions can affect costs through a cost management system (CMS). The CMS computes the organizations activities in performance and by the costs of resources, in order to access the change in costs in the business activities. This system can provide to your business an aggregate measure of inventory value and the manufactured cost of goods on the external reports that are submitted to the investors, creditors, plus other external
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available | Insufficiency means additional time and raw material cost | Time | M | H | Quantity of the raw material required should be duly checked before and also at regular intervals so that at least delay can be avoided. | Project Manager | 3. | Shortage of labourers | This might increase the cost in two ways:-Introduce machinery-training cost of remaining working laborers | Cost | H | H | Try retaining labourers back by a
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When making budget cuts or cutting cost in business it can be a very emotional and difficult task because in most cases it means informing employees that their position in the business is being closed. Cutting salaries and associated cost can cut out a major portion of the organization’s operating cost. Here is a case where Dr. Stephanie White, the Chief Administrator of the Uptown Clinic, is working on reducing the company budget for next year. Dr. Stephanie White needs make at least $94,000 in
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Indian Accounting Standard (Ind AS) 2 Inventories Contents OBJECTIVE Paragraphs 1 SCOPE 2-5 DEFINITIONS 6-8 MEASUREMENT OF INVENTORIES Cost of inventories Costs of purchase 9-33 10-22 11 Costs of conversion 12-14 Other costs 15-18 Cost of inventories of a service provider 19 Cost of agricultural produce harvested from biological assets 20 Techniques for the measurement of cost 21-22 Cost formulas 23-27 Net realisable value 28-33
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According to Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, “Activity-based costing (ABC) is a two-stage product costing method that assigns costs first to activities and then to the products based on each product’s use of activities”(Lanen, Anderson, Maher. 2011. P 319). While Traditional costing, is "often allocate costs based on single-volume measures such as direct-labor hours, direct- labor costs, or machine hours. While using a single volume measure as an overall cost driver seldom meets the cause-and-effect
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and more profitable customers defecting 6. Sales Force placing unreasonable demands coupled with production interruption 7. Lack of integrated and coordinated planning and control 8. Cost based pricing creating havoc in the profits 9. Escalating support costs and huge growth in indirect costs and 10. Lack of motivation , poor performance on the part of senior management and attrition Required: Q-I) Write a report to strategically fix all these problems with clear execution and
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