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caused in the management accounting milieu, it seems destined to play an important role in the direction that teaching and research may adopt in the near future. In fact, the accounting literature is already witnessing an increasing number of articles regarding the lack of relevance of management accounting systems (MAS) in the decision making process of the firm. The book of Johnson and Kaplan (J&K) is implicitly divided into three parts. Part I—^The Rise of Management Accounting, chapters 2 through
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III. Two Stage Cost System Analysis The two stage method is always used in Activity-Based Costing, which assigns resource costs to cost objects base on separate activities. In stage one, the total overhead costs are allocated to the separate activities base on different resource drivers. In stage two, the costs of activities are allocated to each cost object base on cost drivers. In this case, because the wages and depreciation costs can be traced directly to each workstation, we only need to
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The Goal Chapters 31 – 45 1. Give two examples from Alex’s company to illustrate the notion of “common sense is not common at all.” First, according to the cost-accounting rules that everybody has used in the past, Alex’s company is supposed to balance capacity with demand first, and then try to maintain the flow. However, instead they shouldn’t be trying to balance capacity at all; they need excess capacity. The rule they should be following is to balance the flow with demand, not the capacity
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Chapter 12 Standard Costs and Variance Analysis Solutions to Questions 12-1 A quantity standard indicates how much of an input should be used to make a unit of output. The quantity might be measured either in terms of units of direct materials or hours of direct labour time. A price standard indicates what the cost of the input should be. 12-2 Ideal standards do not allow for any imperfections or inefficiencies. Thus, ideal standards are rarely, if ever, attained. Practical standards allow
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for costing systems: * Cost object: anything for which a separate measurement of costs is desired. * Direct costs of a cost object: costs that are related to the particular cost object and can be traced to it in an economically feasible (cost-effective) way. * Indirect costs of a cost object: costs that are related to the particular cost object but cannot be traced to it in an economically feasible way. Indirect costs are allocated to the cost object using a cost-allocation method. (cf
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630 Managerial Accounting Wendy Achilles February 25, 2013 Case 5A – Glaser Health Products Glaser Health Products of Ranier Falls, Georgia needs assistance in evaluating and classifying costs in order to implement an activity-based costing system. As stated in the case, these costs will be used for planning and control decisions rather than inventory valuation. The activity-based costing system will provide better allocation of Glaser’s overhead costs rather than a system
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reduced cost and control cash flow in the organization. Thus, the organization’s purpose is to analyze the elements which make up the organization’s framework. For that reason, the organization must know all specificy problems, purposes, the significance of the problem, and supporting theories. In fact, this research methodology analyzes the implementation of the problem solutions, and defends the result’s findings Financial management in U.S. firms covers many areas in stocks and cost optimization
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factory will lead to cost inefficiencies which could result to higher production costs and consequently higher selling costs which will prevent the company from being competitive in terms of pricing. Costing In the carton factory, each order was a job. Both labor and factory overhead costs were estimated annually. Estimating costs annually may be a cause for concern and can lead to erroneous estimation of costs due to the long length of time considered in the estimates. Costs of raw materials and
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costing methods. She approached her senior analyst, Yung Chen, to prepare an analysis of unit-product costs for each of Zauner’s products, namely small glass ball ornaments, large glass ball ornaments, and specialty glass ball ornaments. Using information from the sales department, Chen calculated the cost per box using traditional volume-based costing system and as a result, small glass ornaments’ cost is more than twice higher than its selling price, which means the company is losing money. David
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