TOPICS IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AMIS 4310 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
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traditional cost management VS lean cost management by Mahanim Hanid, Lauri Koskela and Mohan Sinwardena, the term of cost management is not a well defined term. It’s built on both cost accounting and management accounting, but goes beyond these two terms (P. Agrawal and Mehra 1998). For Brinker (1996) defines it as a set of techniques and methods for controlling and improving a company’s activities and processes, its products and services. In addition, Maskel (2009) also described that the cost and management
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9-40 Make or Buy; Strategy; Ethics (45 min) 1. An analysis of per unit and total costs for 32,000 units shows that the Midwest Division should purchase the parts for a saving of $15,440 ($575,040 - $559,600). Cost per unitTotal CostCost to purchase MTR-2000 from Marley Bid price from Marley$17.30$553,600 Equipment lease penalty [($36,000/12)x2]6,000Total cost to purchase$559,600 Cost for Midwest to Make MTR-2000 Direct material ($195,000/30,000)x1.087.02$224,640 Direct labor ($120,000/30
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Cost Accounting Systems A cost accounting system (also called product costing system or costing system) is a framework used by firms to estimate the cost of their products for profitability analysis, inventory valuation and cost control. There are two main cost accounting systems: the job order costing and the process costing. Traditional costing system calculates a single overhead rate and applies it to each job or in each department. Activity-based costing on the other hand, involves calculation
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Possible Questions TRUE-FALSE STATEMENTS 1. Process cost accounting focuses on the process involved in mass-producing products that are very similar in nature. 2. Process cost systems are used to apply costs to a specific job, such as the manufacturing of a specialized machine. 3. A company that produces motion pictures would likely use a process cost system. 4. In a process cost system, costs are tracked through a series of connected manufacturing processes
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SYNOPSIS: Since the early 1980s standard cost systems (SCSs) have been under attack as not providing the information needed for advanced manufacturers. In spite of the its critics, SCSs are stili the system of choice in some 86 percent of U. S. manufacturing firms. This paper discusses the criticisms of SCSs that (1) the variances are obsolete, (2) there is no provision for continuous improvement, and (3) use of the variances for responsibility accounting result in internal conflict rather than
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COURSE TITLE: Cost Accounting COURSE NUMBER: EBA 213 PREREQUISITES: EBA 101, EBA 102 CREDIT HOURS: 3 DEVELOPER: Professor Simon Saltz LAST UPDATE: December 1,2003 COURSE DESCRIPTION: Cost accounting focuses on cost determination for manufacturers, products and services. This includes the establishment and maintenance of job order and process cost systems, and the classification of costs as product or
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Job Costing Summary The cost accounting system is used to accurately record, measure and report product manufacturing costs. It is critical to for such system to provide up-to-date information for the product cost. There are two types of cost accounting system, the job order cost system and the process cost system. The former system (job order cost) is suitable for production that will varies in characteristics from job to job. Each production might have different raw materials or a different labor
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detailed and accurate information than the conventional costing system because ABC is based on consumption of resources by production of a product or service line and focuses on the activities that drive costs, recognising that activities consume resources. The conventional method allocates overhead costs based on hours consumed (in this case computing hours), which may not represent the actual consumption of indirect resources expended by the service. A costing system should provide information to
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(2013), a job costing system is a product costing system in which it collects and assigns certain costs to a specific job. A process costing system differs in that it collects product or service costs by process or department and then assigns them to a large number of similar or nearly identical products. According to Goss (2003), the easiest way for costing is to average all the indirect costs and allocate them. This would be an example of a process costing system. Some local companies are Dixie
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