activities of an organization affect its costs- is also fundamental to cost accounting systems. The data provided by a cost accounting system is used for various purposes, which include product costing, planning and control, and decision making. This course mainly focuses on the first of these objectives -products costing. COURSE GOALS Students, as future managers, will utilize, at a minimum, the output of cost systems, which are the primary internal information systems in a firm. Students taking
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Revised Fall 2012 CHAPTER 2 SYSTEMS DESIGN: JOB ORDER COSTING Key Terms and Concepts to Know Job-Order Costing vs. Process Costing Job-order costing is used for companies that produce different products each period. Costs are accumulated for each job. Process costing is used for companies that produce many identical units of a single product for long periods of time. Costs are accumulated by manufacturing department. Key Job-Order Costing Documents Material requisitions request materials
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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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revenues,; foreign currency transactions etc.;Accounting for mergers and consolidations; IFRS vs GAAP; Financial statement analysis 3. Cost and Management Accounting: Cost concepts; Job-order costing vs process costing;ABC Costing; Marginal costing vs absorption costing: CVP analysis; Relevant costs: special order, make or buy decisions; ROA, residual income and economic value added; Standard costing and variance analysis; EOQ and linear programming 4. Quantitative Methods and Business
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Job Costing: A Few Observations Understanding activities and processes is fundamental to modern management accounting. When you complete your study of material in this chapter, you should be able to: • . Take a factual situation and calculate a product's indirect cost. • . Discuss the shortcomings of the traditional approach and how products may be miscosted using such an approach. • . Take a factual situation and trace the flow of costs for a product using T-accounts; also, take the same situation
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Cost system refinement: Activity‐based costing; Process Costing Reading: Horngren Chapter 7 (Ch 5 in 14th edition); and Ch 8 to p 276 and pp281‐283 (Ch 17 14th edition) Note: the FIFO method will not be examined in this course and nor will Hybrid (Operation) Costing , therefore you do not need to read the pages that relate to these topics. 1 Salters Pty Ltd, a specialised equipment manufacturer, uses a job order costing system. The overhead is allocated to jobs on the basis of direct labour hours
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Study Plan for FNC1 Financial Accounting Concepts and Procedures – Chapters 1-4 and Chapter 10 1. Understand Basic Accounting Concepts and Principles 2. Know what items are shown on a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Statement of Owners Equity a. Items shown on Balance Sheet shows a companies: i. Assets ii. Liabilities iii. Stockholder's (or owner's) equity b. Items shown on Income Statement: i. The income statement shows revenues ii. Expenses iii. Gains and losses iv. It does
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cost vs expense Cost and expenditure are closely related. You spend your resources in return for another thing of value. SUMMARY: 1. Cost is used on something that has returns, while expenses are expenditures used on things that depreciate. 2. Cost is reported in the balance sheet because it means more funds will come to the balance sheet after the expenditure. Expense on the other hand, is reported on the income sheet because it will be taking away funds from the income sheet in making the expenditures
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information relating to the conduct of the various aspects of a business like cost or profit associated with some portions of business operations to the internal parties viz., management. This category of accounting is called as Management accounting. In order to perform the primary task of decision making managers of business enterprises need information about the past, present and future in the functional areas of management such as personnel, finance, marketing and production. Right decision making has
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Review Notes (Chap 3 to Chap 6) 1. Important Concepts: Cost Drivers and Cost Pools. A cost driver is any factor that has the effect of changing the level of total cost. In cost leadership, managing cost drivers is essential. A firm incurs a cost when it uses a resource for some purpose. Often costs are collected into meaningful groups called cost pools. Since individual costs can be group in several different ways, cost pools can be defined in several different ways as well (by cost type
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