Management accounting in Nepalese perspective The history of account keeping in Nepal by the government is very old. Mandev, the first king of Nepal in Lichhavi period, had circulated the first coin called "Mananka" during the period 464-491 A.D. similarly, King Mahendra Malla had circulated the coin named "Mahendra Malla" in the Malla period. This seems to be the main step to record the nation transactions in a proper way and manner. It is said that a small number of financial transaction used
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decision making and control. In contrast to financial accounting, managerial accounting is concerned with providing helpful information and reports to internal users such as managers and entrepreneurs, so that they can control and plan the business activities. According to the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Management Accounting is "the process of identification, measurement, accumulation, analysis, preparation, interpretation and communication of information used by management
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------------------------------------------------- Date: 08/01/2015 Activity-based costing (ABC) is a method for more precisely allocating overhead to those items that essentially use it. The structure can be used for the targeted reduction of overhead costs. ABC works best in difficult environments, where there are many machines and products, and twisted processes that are not easy to sort out. Equally, it is of less use in a efficient environment where production processes are abbreviated. (Activity Based Costing - AccountingTools
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FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTING Professor Steve Markoff PREPARATION ASSIGNMENT FOR CLASS #1 A) Read the Course Syllabus carefully. We will be reviewing the MOST IMPORTANT PARTS of this in class. Come prepared to ask anything that I might not cover. B) Come to class Monday prepared to discuss the following. As always, the best way to demonstrate preparation for class is by handing in the assigned work. (Hint: I would like you to hand in written answers to these). They should be done on word-processing
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Andre’s Hair Styling 05/15/2016 Draft A cost accounting system (also known as product costing system or costing system) is an outline utilized by businesses to guesstimate the cost of their manufactured goods for lucrativeness evaluation, inventory valuation and cost control. Appraising the precise cost of products is precarious for moneymaking operations. A company needs to recognize which products are lucrative and those that are not, and this can be determined when it has assessed the accurate
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Managerial Decision Making, Case 2, Greetings Inc. Activity Based Costing |Case 2 | | Greetings Inc.: Activity-Based Costing | |This case is from the book: Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision | |Making, 5th Edition | |Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso | |©2010 | |And was answered by some students. | | | | | 1. Activity Based Costing benefits businesses that are more complex in nature. In this case, Greetings. INC has added a new product line, Wall Decor,
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COMPARISON ON TRADITIONAL AND ACTIVITY-BASED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER TITLE PAGE LIST OF TABLES i LIST OF FIGURES ii CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Understanding of Traditional and Activity-Based Costing System 1 1.2 Company Background 3 1.3 Company History 3 1.4 Company Operation
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Activity-Based Costing in Service Industries ACC 560 Strayer University April 21, 2016 Amanda Bryan Activity-based costing is the method of accounting which analyzes and identifies all of the activities performed on a product during production. It then assigns an indirect cost to the product with avoidance of direct cost to the activity. This accounting method helps allocate the cost of the product to the less arbitrarily in values as compared to the method of cost allocation. This method helps
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CHAPTER 5 ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT 5-16 (20 min.) Cost hierarchy. 1. a. Indirect manufacturing labor costs of $1,200,000 support direct manufacturing labor and are output unit-level costs. Direct manufacturing labor generally increases with output units, and so will the indirect costs to support it. b. Batch-level costs are costs of activities that are related to a group of units of a product rather than each individual unit of a product. Purchase
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How Activity Based Costing differs from Conventional Costing Introduction Costing is used in business as a way of determining the cost of manufacturing/offering a product/service. Costing systems determine the overhead (indirect) cost of production and then allocate those overhead costs to a business’ products or services offered. There are two common methods for allocating these indirect costs to products. Activity Based Costing (sometimes referred to as “ABC” Costing) and Traditional Costing
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