INTRODUCTION TO COST MANAGEMENT Activity-Based Costing and Management After studying this chapter, you should be able to . . . 1. Explain the strategic role of activity-based costing 2. Describe activity-based costing (ABC), the steps in developing an ABC system, and the benefits and limitations of an ABC system 3. Determine product costs under both the volume-based method and the activity-based method and contrast the two 4. Explain activity-based management (ABM) PART I 5. Describe
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Predetermined Overhead Rate; Disposition of Underapplied or Overapplied Overhead (LO1, LO7) CHECK FIGURE (2) Underapplied: $68,600 Adriana Company is highly automated and uses computers to control manufacturing operations. The company uses a job-order costing system and applies manufacturing overhead cost to products on the basis of computer-hours. The following estimates were used in preparing the predetermined overhead rate at the beginning of the year: |Computer-hours
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Absorption Costing vs Variable Costing Questions: 1) In this case, would it be better to use the variable or absorption costing method, and why? Variable Costing would prove to be less expensive: Manufacturing Cost per unit: Absorption is $18.71 Variable Cost $16.17 Variance is $2.54 more with Absorption Reason - under Absorption Costing fixed Manufacturing OH are a product cost and under Variable costing it
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1. Helps in Ascertainment of Cost: Cost Accounting helps in the ascertainment of cost of each product, process, job, contract, activity etc. by using different methods of costing such as Job Costing and Process Costing. 2. Helps in Control of Cost: It helps in the control of material costs, labour costs and overheads by using different techniques of control such as Standard Costing and Budgetary Control. 3. Helps in Decision making: It helps the management in making various decisions such as
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wiL1084x_fm_i-xxiv_1.indd Page i 1/10/11 7:53:00 PM user-f499 /Users/user-f499/Desktop/Temp Work/Don't Delete Job/MHBR231:Wild:203 Managerial Accounting John J. Wild University of Wisconsin at Madison Ken W. Shaw University of Missouri at Columbia 3 rd edition wiL1084x_fm_i-xxiv_1.indd Page ii 1/10/11 9:14:31 PM user-f499 /Users/user-f499/Desktop/Temp Work/Don't Delete Job/MHBR231:Wild:203 To my students and family, especially Kimberly, Jonathan, Stephanie, and Trevor. To
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CHAPTER 1 Costs Costs can be defined as the resource expended towards the accomplishment of a specific objective. Costs are usually measured in monetary terms being the amount that has to be paid for goods and services, usually raw materials and labor. Costs are broadly classified into actual and budget costs. Actual costs are historical while budgeted are projected to occur in the future. Costs are either direct or indirect. Direct costs are costs that can be traced directly to the cost object
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subcontractors, the costs of the materials and the indirect costs associated with those costs. The company needs to do several things relating to their engineering costs. They need to set up a job costing system in which each project is set up as a special job. Any costs that are directly associated with that job need to be kept track of by type. The only way for the company to know how they are performing on each of their sale contract is to
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process-costing accounting systems. ____ 2. In process costing, each producing department has its own work-in-process account. ____ 3. The difference between actual overhead and applied overhead is the overhead variance. ____ 4. Using a time ticket, the cost accounting department can enter the cost of direct materials onto the correct job-order cost sheet. ____ 5. Process costing accumulates costs by processing departments rather than by individual jobs. ____ 6. Process costing is most
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1.0 Life cycle costing (LCC) 1.1 Definition Life cycle costing is a cost management approach which includes all costs and ensures that all those costs are managed over the life cycle of the product. Product life cycle begins from conception of the product until its abandonment which can be referred as ‘from cradle to grave‘. Product life cycle has four stages: 1) Product planning and initial concept design It involves process of identifying any underlying conditions, assumption, limitations
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1. | Question : | (TCO A) Wages paid to an assembly line worker in a factory are a | | | Student Answer: | | Prime Cost YES.....Conversion Cost NO. | | | | Prime Cost YES.....Conversion Cost YES. | | | | Prime Cost NO....Conversion Cost NO. | | | | Prime Cost NO.....Conversion Cost YES. | | Instructor Explanation: | Chapter 2 | | | | Points Received: | 6 of 6 | | Comments: | | | | 2. | Question : | (TCO A) A cost incurred in the past
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