BAYERO UNIVERSITY‚ KANO SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES‚ FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES A case study of Activity Based Costing in Lagos State Healthcare By POPOOLA‚ OLUWATOYIN MUSEDIKU JOHNSON Course Facilitator: Professor Kabiru Isa Dandago Being a paper presented in the M.Sc. Accounting Programme‚ Department of Accounting‚ Bayero University‚ Kano-Nigeria December 15‚ 2009 Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the healthcare systems‚ in particular the blood transfusion
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opportunities connected with assessing the profitability of the different services offered by the airport to the airlines and their customers. You are‚ among other things‚ asked to consider whether you would recommend the use of Full Cost‚ Activity Based Costing‚ or Contribution Margin Concept to the company and state the reasons for your recommendation. Problems * Costs are not sufficiently adjusted to the income‚ specifically; management finds it difficult to get an overview of how the various
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Declaration Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Method Of Costing 5 What drive them to use that method 6 Short Term Strategy 7 Long Term Strategy 8 Future Plans 9 Important Issues 10 Conclusion 11 Bibliography 12 Declaration We declare that this assignment is result of our own hard work‚ understanding and research based on activities of BOC Gases Fiji Limited and the notes received during our course.
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2.4 Problems face in implementing Activity Based Costing During the process of implementing the ABC in one firm may face a lot of problems such as technical factor and behavioral factor. As for behavioral factor‚ the implementation of ABC may cause the employee job to be duplicated due to the differences between ABC and GAAP system that need separate operation. This may lead to the unsatisfied behavior of the employee that need to work more as the ABC is implied‚ this will also cause the decrease
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within a full cost pricing policy. The discussion centred around the traditional method currently in use‚ compared and contrasted with ABC‚ Activity Based Costing a technique which re-examines the problem that has faced accountants for decades – that of allocation and absorption of overhead. Traditional pricing method has been based upon absorption costing and the treatment of overhead usually followed a set procedure. • Cost centres are identified and established within the organisation.
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Activity Based Costing Analysis for Band-aid Introduction Band-aid (BA) is a worldwide renowned wound care brand which has been produced in two manufacturing plants—Brazil and China. This analysis is for the factory in Shanghai‚ China‚ which mainly supports the sales in Japan‚ North America‚ Australia and China. On July‚ 2009‚ the operation team was asked to do the business plan for 2010‚ including the annual volume‚ the total production hours and the overall operation cost. Based on the unique
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Super Bakery’s Costing Methods Assigning cost can be a tedious process‚ and traditional costing methods such as job order and process order costing systems will not accurately assign cost. Super Bakery‚ Inc.‚ a company that produces nutrient enriched doughnuts‚ had to restructure their costing system in order to appropriately price their products. It was eventually decided to use activity based costing (ABC). The virtual nature of the company made this costing method a more accurate tool for
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Traditional costing versus Activity-based costing Advantages and disadvantages Costing systems are the programs that supply information about the value of direct labor hours and numbers of units produced. With the help of data such as product cost‚ the managers can generate estimation of cost associated with different activity carried in the organization. The costs systems operate by taking total cost as basic for calculation. Costing is essential for every organization‚ as every manufacturing and
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Super Bakery‚ Inc. is a “nationwide supplier of mineral‚ vitamin‚ and protein enriched doughnuts and other baked goods to the institutional food market‚ primarily school systems.” This corporation is what is known as a virtual corporation. A virtual corporation is one that outsources most of its operations and only keeps the core strategic parts of the business in house. The following will describe the strategies Super Bakery‚ Inc. used to help grow its sales by an estimated 20% annually‚ why
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