1. Cost accounting relates to what industry? a. public accounting b. financial accounting c. service d. manufacturing 2.Sunk costs are ______. a. future costs b. costs that do not affect the decision c. costs from the past and cannot be changed. d. choice b & c are both correct 3.Which is not a characteristic of managerial accounting information? a. Emphasizes the external financial statements b. Emphasizes relevance c. Provides detailed information about individual parts of the company
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 1.1 Sources of fund and income 2 1.2 Contribution made by the methods of generating income 4 2.1. Elements of cost 5 Instructions for gross profit margin 6 3. Just In Time 7 4. Economic Order Quantity 7 2.2 The Best Methods for Controlling the Cash Flow 7 3.1 Sources of trial Balance 8 The main sources of trial balance are- 8 Journal entries 8 Ledger 8 Closing entries 8 Adjusting entries 8 3.1 Structure of a Trial Balance
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14/05/2014 Mixed Costs Total Mixed Cost VC Per Unit (Slope) Purpose of Mixed Cost Analysis To predict cost at an activity level with no historical record: Total mixed cost line can be expressed as: 2N Y Total Utility Cost Fixed Cost (Intercept) Level of Activity If your fixed monthly utility charge is $40, your variable cost is $0.03 per kilowatt hour, can you predict the utility of next month when you plan to use 2,000 kilowatt hours? Y = a + bX Variable Cost per KW Fixed
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Case Report I, 2014 Fly ash brick project: feasibility study using CVP analysis Executive Summary “Fly Ash Brick” project describes a case of two business people, Rajiv Sharma and Alok Gupta intending to start a business and deciding on whether it will be financially profitable and feasible to tap into this opportunity. Opportunity arose because India utilizes huge amount of coal in order to extract energy and in the process a lot of waste is produced, in this case - fly ash. Huge amount of this
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ISSUES COST-VOLUME-PROFIT (CVP) ANALYSIS 1. Definition of cvp 2. Objectives of cvp 3. The importance of cvp to the management: 4. Describe the situation of increasing return to scale 5. Describe the situation of decreasing return to scale 6. Distinguish between economist’s and accountant’s approach to cvp analysis 7. Define the term of “profit volume ratio”. 8. Definition of cost behavior 9. Types and examples for each of the cost behaviour
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All rights reserved. Course Description This course applies accounting tools to make management decisions. Students learn to evaluate organizational performance from accounting information. Other topics include financial statements, cost behavior, cost allocation, budgets, and control systems. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must
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consumer in the long-term because it reduces the competition in the market which is what controls the prices, if there isn’t much competition, one firm could have a monopoly and charge increase prices since there isn’t competition to keep their prices fair creating price gouging. Another situation happening in the industry is the fact that Wilkerson’s competition has not realized that there are opportunities for profit in the flow controllers, which are more labor intensive but seem to withstand increased
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organizations have been surveyed with a structured questionnaire by using 5 point Likert Scale measurement from different categories of manufacturing organizations. Findings reveal that cash flow statement analysis, ratio analysis, budgetary control, CVP analysis, variance analysis and fund flow analysis have been frequently high-ranking techniques. Secondly, the authors have recognized five factors to calculate the variability in decision-making with the help of rotated component matrix which shows that
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the cost behavior in the wireless industry. What are the key cost drivers? What are the implications of this cost behavior for cost-volume-profit (CVP) relationships? The cost behavior is difficult in the wireless industry because the key components making up the costs for texting and wireless calls are the same. While there has been an increase in the number of text messages sent, almost to the point where more time is spent texting than calling, it’s hard to differentiate how the costs should
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Written Case Analysis Landau Company I. Background: Landau Company is a manufacturing company that is currently using Absorption Costing System for the preparation of their monthly Income Statements. The company is considering a shift in the system to Variable Costing. II. Problem Statement: What Costing System should Landau Company used for their monthly income statement that could best reflect their monthly income? III. Objectives: - Differentiate Variable Costing from Full
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