predetermined costs with actual costs as they are incurred. Management Accounting 2 What is Variance? The difference between a cost’s actual amount and its budgeted or planned amount Unfavorable cost variance Actual cost > Budgeted Amount Favorable cost variance Actual cost < Budgeted Amount Management Accounting 3 RESEARCH ARTICLE Purpose:- This study aims to provide evidence on the extent to which companies in Malaysia use standard costing. It also examines the differences in the use of such techniques
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13. Variance and Standard Deviation (expected). Using the data from problem 13‚ calculate the variance and standard deviation of the three investments‚ stock‚ corporate bond‚ and government bond. If the estimates for both the probabilities of the economy and the returns in each state of the economy are correct‚ which investment would you choose considering both risk and return? Why? ANSWER Variance of Stock = 0.10 x (0.25 – 0.033)2 + 0.15 x (0.12 – 0.033)2 + 0.50 x (0.04 – 0.033)2 + 0
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Journal Entry 3 Alpha – Beta Exercise Beta Group BACKGROUND The name of this negotiation exercise is ALPHA-BETA. The goal of this negotiation is to stay within character and gain as much information from the other side as possible. The uncertainties confronted were how to lead the negotiation as a Betan. The skills that we will try to exhibit are trying to embody the style and culture of the Betans. Our opponents‚ Alpha Inc.‚ were prepared with their demands. They seemed to have researched
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In PBM managed contracts among retail pharmacies such as‚ Bob’s Pharmacy‚ the PBM often in most instances will reimburse the pharmacy a flat rate dispensing fee for each prescription filled in addition to an added reimbursement amount for the actual product dispensed that can be based upon a percentage of the Average Wholesale Price (AWP). This price reimbursed for a drug may be different than the initial price that the retail pharmacy paid the drug wholesaler who supplied the drug to be dispensed
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Assignment 7: Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1 . Consider‚ as in Lecture 7.1‚ a portfolio of two risky assets‚ with expected returns rˉ1‚rˉ2‚ variances σ21‚σ22 and covariance σ1‚2. No other assets are available. You have to allocate $1 mln of investment in the portfolio of the two assets in order to minimize total portfolio variance. What is the optimal amount of investment in asset 1 (in mln dollars)? Assume expected returns are
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PROBLEM ON VARIANCE ANALYSIS [pic] Submitted to: PROF. ROSFE CORLAE D. BADUY Submitted by: ADRIAN ERWIN M. PEGASON ERWIN S. FLORES BETA COMPANY Beta Company produces two products‚ A and B‚ each of which uses materials X and Y. The following unit standard costs apply: | |Material X |Material Y |Direct Labor | |Product A |4 lbs @ $15 |1 lb @
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One-way Analysis of Variance (Abbreviated one-way ANOVA) is a technique used to compare means of two or more samples (using the F distribution). This technique can be used only for numerical data. It consists of a single factor with several levels and multiple observations at each level. With this kind of layout we can calculate the mean of the observations within each level of our factor. The residuals will tell about the variation within each level. It can also average the means of each level
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and Estimation for Population Variances Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach‚ 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall‚ Inc. Chap 11-1 Chapter Goals After completing this chapter‚ you should be able to: Formulate and complete hypothesis tests for a single population variance Find critical chi-square distribution values from the chi-square table Formulate and complete hypothesis tests for the difference between two population variances Use the F table to find critical
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LABOR COST VARIANCE CAN BE SPLIT INTO • Direct labor rate variance (P) Calculation: actual total labor costs - (total actual labor hours worked x budgeted labor hour rate) Interpretation: calculates the portion of labor costs variance driven by the changed labor rate per hour Possible reasons for variances: changes in staff qualification and skills‚ general increase of wages in economy‚ premiums paid to finish a job quickly‚ poor budgeting • Direct labor quantity (efficiency) variance (P) Calculation:
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Multivariate analysis of variance Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) is a generalized form of univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA). It is used when there are two or more dependent variables. It helps to answer : 1. do changes in the independent variable(s) have significant effects on the dependent variables; 2. what are the interactions among the dependent variables and 3. among the independent variables.[1] Where sums of squares appear in univariate analysis of variance‚ in multivariate
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