Discussions for Managerial Accounting: Week 4: Discussion 1 How does activity-based costing differ from the traditional costing approach? When would it give more accurate costs than traditional costing systems? * Activity based costing (ABC) is a method for assigning costs to products‚ services‚ projects‚ tasks‚ or acquisitions‚ based on the activities that go into them and the resources consumed by these activities. ABC contrasts with traditional costing‚ which sometimes assigns costs using
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of property crime in the United States. Many believe that the degree of property crime is determined by various factors including per capita income for each state‚ percentage of public aid recipients‚ high school dropout rates and many more. This project seeks to provide evidence for or against some of these common perceptions about property crime. Specifically it seeks to answer the questions: are crime rates higher in urban than rural areas? Does unemployment or education level contribute to property
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The Manager and Management Accounting BUSI 0028 Sem 2‚ 2012/13 Dr. Olivia Leung © 2012 Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Accounting Discipline Overview Managerial accounting—measures‚ analyzes‚ and reports financial and nonfinancial information to help managers make decisions to fulfill organizational goals. Managerial accounting need not be GAAP compliant. Financial accounting—focus on reporting to external users including investors‚ creditors‚ and governmental
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Chapter 1—Introduction to Managerial Accounting TRUE/FALSE 1. Management accounting information is only used by manufacturing organizations. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy OBJ: LO: 1-1 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic STA: AICPA: BB-Industry | IMA: Business Applications | ACBSP: APC-25-Managerial Characteristics/Terminology KEY: Bloom’s: Knowledge NOT: 1 min. 2. The managerial activity of monitoring a plan’s implementation and taking corrective action as needed is referred to as decision making
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Course Project Week 3 Shimere Alexander MIS535 Managerial Applications of Information Technology Professor Wayne Freer January 27‚ 2013 Subject of Course Project The purpose of this course project is to address the ongoing issues surrounding my companies‚ REI (Recreation Equipment Inc.‚) inventory management issue and to see if we can find a software program better suited to the companies needs. The goal is to find products quickly
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• Accounting is the system that measures business activities and process information into reports. • Accountant maintain‚ audit and prepare financial records for a person or a company. • Main careers in accounting - bookkeeper‚ auditor‚ financial advisor‚ taxation‚ carbon accountant and accountant etc… • Bookkeeping is recording financial recorders and summaries of financial transaction. Accounting is measuring business activities and process information into reports. • Main professional accounting
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OL3210--Principles of Managerial Accounting—unit 2 complete There are various ways that financial statement information is presented in this article on Nokia. The first way I see is in the Good News section on page 1 “the bulk of its revenues—more than quadrupled‚ from $2.1 billion in 1993 to $8.7 billion last year (1997)‚” and on say “the recent June quarter surging to $616 million‚ up 76% from the same quarter in 1997” this is an partial example of an horizontal analysis (Stone‚ 1998). A horizontal
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Abstract: This project consists of a compilation of Managerial Accounting principles and concepts that have been learned throughout the ACCT 202 course. The theory learned was put into practice by using direct Accounting Information from the Nike Corporation‚ as a guideline for our own company‚ Scooter’s Sneakers. By fulfilling the guidelines for the project‚ the group was better able to visualize and understand the techniques and reasoning for the information learned from each Chapter taught in
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Decision-making plays a large role in every company’s success. Business professionals should be concerned with how decisions affect workers‚ the local economy‚ other businesses‚ and profits. Satisfying all of these criteria is difficult‚ so which factor is the most important? Should a company solely concern itself with profits? How would the Bible apply to these factors? I believe every company changes their decision making skills based on the situation. Sometimes it is more important to
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TEST QUESTIONS: Questions 1-3 refer to the following: The following selected data for March were taken from Rubenstein Company’s financial statements: Cost of goods available for sale Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods manufactured Finished goods inventory ‑ ending Direct materials used Sales Selling and administrative expenses Direct labor Work in process inventory ‑ beginning $ 65‚000 20‚000 51‚000 10‚000 15‚000 105‚000 30‚000 20‚000 0 1. The gross
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