Eunice Eng Yoke Fang PBS1311031 Case Study (Galvaset) Company Background: Information Provided: Direct Labour Rate = $ 20 per hour Expected Production Level = 50 000 units Labor Hours Required = 200 000 hours Activity (Cost Driver) | Budgeted Costs for 2010 | Cost Driver Used as Allocation Based | Cost Allocation Rate | Material Handling | $ 325 000 | Number of parts used | $ 0.25 per part | Cutting & Lathe Work | $ 2 340 000 | Number of parts used | $ 1.80 per part | Assembly
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To: Board of Director’s Audit Committee From: Director of Internal Audit RE: Audit of Generic Hospital Report Corporation Date: Feb 5th, 2014 I. Introduction: Many questions have arisen regarding the quality and efficiency of the in-house maintenance group. All four departments have consistently gone over their maintenance budget by an average of $200,000 per year, including a total of $250,000 spent on rework at extra cost. The aim of this audit is to identify any control weaknesses
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Baluyot, Krishia Mae E. BSAV-2A Scandals that Rocked the Accounting World ❖ Enron Scandal The Enron Corporation led to bankruptcy Last October 2001. It is an American energy company based in Huston, Texas, and the termination of Arthur Andersen, which was one of the biggest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world. Enron is also attributed as the biggest audit failure. Enron was founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay after merging Houston Natural Gas and Inter North several years
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Target Profit And Break Even Analysis; Case 4-33; Managerial Accounting Case 4-33: Cost Structure; Target Profit and Break Even Analysis Question 1: Compute Pittman Company’s break-even point in sales dollars for next year assuming: a. The agents’ commission remains unchanged at 15% $12,000,000 in sales is needed to break even while employing an outside sales force with commissions of 15% of sales. b. The agents’ commission rate is increased to 20% $13,714,286 in sales is
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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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Production and Perfect Competition In the first calculation, the total fixed costs = $1,000,000 and the total variable costs equals to $4.4 million, with four million for wages and 50,000 workers multiplied by $80 per worker, plus $400,000 of other variable inputs. The average variable cost equals to $22 million, with total variable costs of $4.4 million divided by 200,000 units. Worker productivity equals to 4, with 200,000 units of output divided by 50,000 workers. The loss is $400
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CHAPTER 9 Break-Even Point and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis QUESTIONS 1. The variable costing income statement classifies costs by the way they behave. Variable costs are deducted from revenues to determine contribution margin and then fixed costs are deducted from contribution margin to determine operating profit. Break-even analysis involves a study of fixed costs, variable costs and revenues to determine the volume at which total costs equal total revenues. Hence, variable costing
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Reference |Issue investigate |Method of data collection |Main finding | | |1. Amriks Sohal and Walter W.E chung |Extent of implementation of ABC |Books |The ratio of adopting ABC | | |system |use of data of different |How do firms consider ABC system | |Activity based costing in |Earlier experience of ABC system |survey |CIMA research on ABC
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seamless are the goals of the HR department. The success of this determines the overall strength of the company (Dawaine Cassidy, 2010). Effective Accounting can have a significant effect on reducing operational cost and increasing company profit margins. Accounting software enables companies to manage financial accounts, payrolls, inventory and more. Accounting software also allows “up to the minute” research of companies' financial statistics, tracking of transactions, recording account payable, account
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1.0 Introduction to Accounting • Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring and communicating information to permit informed judgments and decisions by users of the information. • There are two main types of accounting: 1. Financial accounting This is primarily concerned with the recording of transactions between the business and other individuals and organisations. It also includes the preparation of reports on the performance of the business
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