Company Case 1) The existing cost system allocates overhead based on each product’s proportion of direct labor costs. The rate per unit of direct labor cost is 300% for all product groups. This results in the following cost breakdowns: 2) When you use an activity based cost model the allocations are as follows: Product Profitablity analysis | | | | | Valves | Pumps | Flow Controllers | Direct Labor cost | 10.00 | 12.50 | 10.00 | Direct Material cost | 16.00 | 20.00 | 22.00 | Manfuacturing
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that are easily traced to the units of output and included in the cost goods sold. Example: Timber in cases of furniture making. Indirect Materials: Materials that are not directly associated with production and are part of operating expenses. Example: Bottom in case of shirt making. Material control Material control is a systematic control over the purchasing, storing and using of material to minimize the possible cost. Material control may be defined as the level of material maintenance
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AN ESSAY ON ACTIVITY BASED MANAGEMENT (ABM) HOW DOES 21ST CENTURY MAKES PROFIT HAPPEN? COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING :BX2012 ASSIGNMENT DONE BY: EVA LOVELIN-12765541 WILSON HOW DOES 21ST CENTURY MAKES PROFIT IT IS TRUE THAT WE AS HUMANS HAVE EVOLVED GREATLY IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE. STARTED FROM THE STONE AGE AND NOW WE HAVE MADE OUR LIVES SO MUCH BETTER AND YET THE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE, GROWTH AND TO ACHIEVE MORE IS EVER LASTING. WE JUST CANNOT GET ENOUGH AND NOTHING WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH AS
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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 about its production and sales activity. Each unit of product is charged for material cost and labor cost; material
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Units Allocation* Firsts and seconds 1,500,000 .20 180,000. No. 1 common 3,000,000 .40 360,000 No. 2 common 1,875,000 .25 225,000 No. 3 common 1,125,000 .15 135,000 Totals 7,500,000 1.0 900,000 Unit cost: Firsts and seconds .12 (180,000/1,500,000) No. 1 common .12 (360,000/3,000,000) No. 2 common .12 (225,000/1,875,000) No. 3 common .12 (135,000/1,125,000) b. Sales-value-at-split-off
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DSS Assignment (Assignment 1) GROUP DUE DATE: March 13, 2015 Peer Evaluation: Each group member will be grading other team members. A student’s score will be an average of the group member’s rating times the overall assignment score. For example if you get an average of 80/100 in peer evaluation from your group and 90 in the assignment, your INDIVIDUAL score would be 90*.8 = 72/100. If there is a problem with your group members, please e-mail me right away!!! PEER Evaluations are
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96 | 342.24 | 308.6 | Profit/(Loss) per unit | 264.15 | 235.04 | 177.76 | 321.4 | Unit Produced | 940 | 3230 | 6400 | 4200 | Total Profit/Loss | 248301 | 759179.2 | 1137664 | 1349880 | Profit/Loss % | 7.1 | 21.7 | 32.6 | 38.6 | Traditional Cost Method Working Note 1: Product | Unit of output | Machine unit/hour | Total Machine Hour | Wooden Pallet | 940 | 19.20/60 | 300.80 | Cutting/Chopping | 3250 | 35.40/60 | 1905.70 | Wooden Box | 6400 | 15.10/60 | 1610.67 | Lamination Board
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reasoning is he wants the highest percentage of overhead cost assigned to the military contracts (Whitecotton, 2011). This impacts the profitibility of both product lines by (a.) increasing the apparent “cost” of each unit so as to increase the sale price in a “cost-plus” contract and (b.) to reduce the amount of actual cost being charged to each unit sold on the open market, thereby improving the profit margin. In other words, the higher the cost base for each unit, the more the company can charge
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rooted from the 1970ies, were a novel way of assigning costs more accurately to cost objects. As R. Cooper and R. S. Kaplan brought notice to these concepts, they stressed its main innovation: assigning the direct and indirect costs of each activity to products based on the resources they consume. In contrast, the traditional costing system assigned overheads in proportion to an activity’s direct costs1, which would oftentimes distort the real costs incurred by a product. The reason is that if product
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University of St. Marks and St. Johns MBA 621 Financial and Managerial Accounting Assignment 2: “Budgeting” Students Name: Md. Bazlul Karim Students ID: R1404D113105 Contents Introduction: 3 Question-1 3 Budgeting: 3 Strategic Planning: 3 Differences among Long Range Planning, Strategic Planning and Budgeting 4 Is Budgeted performance better than past performance as a basis for judging actual results? 4 The benefits of budgeting: 4 Is budgeting an unnecessary burden for
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