Activity Based Costing in the Service Sector: The Buckeye National Bank 1. a) single indirect cost allocation rate: total indirect costs/total amount of checks processed $2‚850‚000/$95‚000‚000 = $0.03 per dollar processed b) total annual indirect cost assigned to the retail customer line and the business customer line: amount of checks processed x allocation rate = total indirect costs $9‚500‚000 x $0.03 = $285‚000 (retail customers) $85‚500‚000 x $0.03 = $2‚565‚000 (business customers)
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Buckeye National Bank 1. Under the traditional (old) cost system: a. Compute the single indirect cost allocation rate that the bank would use to allocate the total indirect costs presented in Exhibit B. (Total indirect costs/total value of checks processed‚ in thousands) $2‚850 / $95‚000 = $0.03 b. Use your answer to part A to determine the total annual indirect cost assigned to: i. The retail customer line (Value of checks processed X cost per dollar processed‚ in thousands)‚ and $9‚500 * $0.03
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Buckeye National Bank 1. a) PDOR- Est. MOH/Est. Act. (Total indirect costs/total value of checks processed) $2‚850‚000/$95‚000‚000= $0.03 per dollar processed. b) (i) Retail Line—(Value of checks processed X cost per dollar processed) $9‚500‚000 X $0.03= $285‚000 (ii) Business Line $85‚500‚000 X $0.03= $2‚565‚000 The allocations are driven by the dollar value of the checks processed. c) (i) Total indirect cost proportion for Retail Line (Allocation amount/Est. MOH) $285‚000/$2
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Accounting Activity-Based Costing Instructor Bradley Johnson December 17‚ 2012 Activity-Based Costing In business‚ there are two separate costing methods that a firm can use. One of those methods is called traditional costing system and the other is activity-based costing. Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing method that focuses on identifying activities which allocates the costs of each activity a firm uses. From our text‚ it identifies Activity-based Costing as “a two-stage product costing method
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Navigate * Activity-Based Costing (Encyclopedia of Management) * Activity-Based Costing (Encyclopedia of Small Business) Activity-Based Costing * Print * PDF * Cite * Activity-based costing (ABC) is an accounting method that allows businesses to gather data about their operating costs. Costs are assigned to specific activitiesuch as planning‚ engineering‚ or manufacturingnd then the activities are associated with different products or services. In this way‚ the
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Analyse the evolution of ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC). What Factors led to its emergence. Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Activity Based Costing (ABC)……………………………………………………..…. 5 * What is ABC * Development Of ABC Terms Involved in ABC & Stages of ABC………………………………………… 6 Evolution Of ABC………………………………………………………………………… 7 Phases of development of ABC……………………………………………………… 8 What led to the emergence of ABC………………………………………………
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– DBS Consulting Services Executive Summary This report provides an analysis of Activity Based Costing systems and Conventional Costing systems to determine whether the application of Activity Based Costing concepts would be useful at DBS Consulting Services. A profitability analysis of the two consulting services offered by DBS Consulting Services (e-Commerce Consulting and Information Systems Consulting) was performed using Activity Based Costing and Conventional Costing. Using the conventional
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Chapter 4-1 Activity-Based Costing Managerial Accounting Fifth Edition Weygandt Kimmel Kieso Chapter 4-2 study objectives Chapter 4-3 1. Recognize the difference between traditional costing and activity-based costing. 2. Identify the steps in the development of an activity-based costing system. 3. Know how companies identify the activity cost pools used in activity-based costing. 4. Know how companies identify and use cost drivers in activitybased costing. 5. Understand the benefits
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Strength of Activity Based Costing The major strength of activity based costing is the ability to estimate the cost of individual products and services precisely. By transferring overhead costs to individual units of products or services‚ ABC helps identify inefficient or non-profitable products or activities that help into the profitability of efficient processes or highly profitable products. 1. More accurate costing of products/services Product cost determination under activity-based costing is more
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Chapter 4 Activity-Based Costing 4-1 4-2 Traditional Costing and Activity-Based Costing Traditional Costing Systems Allocates overhead using a single predetermined rate. ► Job order costing: direct labor cost may be the relevant activity base. ► Process costing: machine hours may be the relevant activity base. Assumption was satisfactory when direct labor was a major portion of total manufacturing costs. ► Wide acceptance of a high correlation between
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