Cost Allocation ACC/561 April 23, 2012 Cost Allocation The purpose of cost allocation is to identify and correctly allocate costs associated with a job, product, or service. The main uses of cost allocation are to facilitate decision-making regarding costs, justify prices charged for products and services, cost control, and for optimal utilization of resources. There are several methods used for cost allocation, depending on the type of product or service offer by the company. Variable
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MODULE - 6B Elementary Cost Accounting Notes 95 Cost Accounting : An Introduction ACCOUNTANCY After passing your senior secondary examination, if you set up a small manufacturing unit, say manufacturing of packing boxes, a problem will arise what price of each box you should quote to the buyer. Many factors are considered while fixing the price of a product/item such as competitors’ price etc. One of the basic factors is the cost of its production. Cost is essential not only to fix price
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Cost Management Laura M. Davis BUS630: Managerial Accounting (NAH1226A) Professor John Kuhn August 7, 2012 Cost Management There are many aspects of accounting that are important to the functions of a company. I believe that one of the most important is cost management. Cost management is when you manage the cost within a company by tracking all cost that is involved in all of the day to day processes. This allows for the company to keep the cost of the company lower by managing
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representatives) Dave Marley, Cost Accounting Manager (supervises cost accountants) Kevin Carson, Production Supervisor (supervises all manufacturing employees) Sally Renner, Engineer (supervises all new-product design teams) REQUIRED a) What are the primary information needed by each manager? Give examples. (5 Marks) b) Which, if any, financial accounting report(s) is likely to be used by each manager? Explain. (3 Marks) c) Name one special purpose management accounting report that could be designed
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1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the target costing system? First, target costing originally starts with mangers estimate the cost that customers are willing to pay and how competitor will price the same products or services. (Cost Accounting. Page 545). In the Nissan case, customers are very knowledgeable because the customer demand requires more variations and model types of automobiles. This is a favorable market for Nissan. Nissan managers can set an expected profit margin because
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1. Responsibility accounting in modern health care organization is a type of management accounting which collects and reports both planned and actual accounting information in terms of responsibility centers about the inputs and outputs of responsibility accounting. A growing trend in the structure of health care organizations is decentralization. Decentralization is the degree of dispersion of responsibility within a health care organization. In a decentralized organization, decision making is
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Unit: BO1COAC216 Cost Accounting Program: Bachelor of Business Trimester 1, 2015 OVERVIEW The unit introduces cost accounting and enables students to explain its roles in efficient resources allocation. Students will be introduced to the traditional and modern approaches to costing for evaluation in decision making and profitability analysis. The role of cost accounting in performance appraisal is examined and investigated by analyzing the various topics presented. Overall, the unit will
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the ‘logic’ or technical attributes of ABC (Shields, 1995; Malmi, 1997). This paper argues that there is a logic of ABC and tries to identify and illustrate how people relate to, misunderstand and still ‘appropriate’ this logic and start “talking accounting”. This paper shows that the ABC system implemented in this organisation did indeed provide information for decision-making and did to some extent support the logic of ABC. The paper also shows how this knowledge was emergent, the logic was articulated
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Tapping the full potential of ABC Joseph A. Ness Thomas G. Cucuzza Many companies have used activity-based costing (ABC) in onetime profitability studies to help them decide which products or customers to cut or keep. But ABC can be much more than a superior accounting technique that shows how much money individual products are really making or losing. When ABC is woven into critical management systems, it can serve as a powerful tool for continuously rethinking and dramatically improving not
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Jan Turyna MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING – CASE ANALYSES CASE 1 Management Board of Furniture Company X is considering one-year contract for producing office desks. Accounting Department has prepared preliminary list of contract costs and revenues: |Specification |Amount | |1. Direct material costs, including: |
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