CHAPTER 5: ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS 5-1 Product costs are likely distorted when a firm uses a volume-based rate if the plant has more than one activity in its operations and not all activities consume overhead in the same proportion. The more diverse the product mixes of the plant are in volume, sizes, manufacturing processes, or product complexities, the greater the cost distortions are likely to be in using a volume-based rate. Undercosting a product may appear to have increased
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Samenvatting Management Accounting 1 Complete_Samenvatting_Management_Accounting_1.pdf Hogeschool Utrecht | Management Accounting 1 Hoofdstuk 2 – An introduction to cost term and purposes Kosten worden veelal aangemerkt als de verbruikte middelen om een bepaald doel te bereiken. De kosten worden meestal berekend als de geldeenheden die moeten worden betaald voor de aanschaf van goederen of diensten. Een kostenobject is alles waarvoor een aparte berekening van de kosten is gewenst
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Journal of International Business and Cultural Studies Human resource accounting and international developments: implications for measurement of human capital Maria L. Bullen Clayton State University Kel-Ann Eyler Wesleyan College Abstract Human Resource Accounting (HRA) involves accounting for expenditures related to human resources as assets as opposed to traditional accounting which treats these costs as expenses that reduce profit. Interest and contributions to growth in HRA have been evident
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Introduction The concept of Activity-based cost management was born from the belief that traditional costing systems have inherent limitations that do not accurately assign indirect and overhead costs in all situations. Managers that are familiar with their organization’s operations know that different products and services consume these costs in varying proportion, but traditional costing systems tend to spread these costs evenly over all products and services offered. Assignment of overhead
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1. Activity costing would be appropriate 1. An activity-based costing system may be appropriate for Wall Décor, when overhead allocation based job-order costing provides product cost distortion. As seen on previous case, this distortion happens when one product is manufacturing in high volume and the others are manufacturing in complexity as well as in low volume. In this situation Wall Décor should change its costing system for selling its high volume produced products whereas low-volume produced
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Assignment 3: Calculating Inventory Finlon Upholstery Inc. uses a job-order costing system to accumulate manufacturing costs. The company's work-in-process on December 31, 2001, consisted of one job (no. 2077), which was carried on the year-end balance sheet at $156,800. There was no finished-goods inventory on this date. Finlon applies manufacturing overhead to production on the basis of direct-labor cost. (The budgeted direct-labor cost is the company's practical capacity, in terms of direct-labor
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Question 1: (TCO 1) The goal of managerial accounting is to provide information that managers need for A) planning. B) control. C) decision making. D) All of the above Instructor Explanation: See Chapter 1, page 4. Points Received: 4 of 4 Question 2. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following costs does not change when the level of business activity changes? a) Total fixed costs b) Total variable costs c) Total direct materials costs d) Fixed costs per unit
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The competitive situation faced by your company varies with each of its product lines. It is important that the firm be able to draw distinctions between each of its products’ markets in order to make decisions that will keep the company profitable yet competitive. Pumps are a commodity which means that there is demand for the product but it is not unique; there are no major qualitative distinctions to push consumers to prefer pumps your company over those any other pump manufacturer. The existence
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out of work-in-process (5 marks). Debit Credit Finished goods inventory: $490,000 Work-in-process inventory $490,000 Question 2: Barrie Inc. uses a job-order cost system. Only 3 jobs were worked on during November and December, Jobs 25, 26 and 27. The costs charged to each job were as follows: Details | Job
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Course Name: ACCT 3420-002 Instructor: Shirley Mauger Date: April 01, 2016 Table of Content I. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION ……………..……… 3 II. ANALYSIS ………………………………………..….... 3 1. Overhead Assignment ………………………….…… 4 2. Activity-based Costing System ……………..…….… 5 a. Appendix ……………………………….……...... 5 b. ABC and Actual Production Volume ………….…... 5 c. ABC and Capacity Production Volume ……….….... 5 3. Expand and Analysis …………………………..…… 5 III. ALTERNATIVES AND EVALUATION
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