Case: Allied Office Products Company A costs Allied less money to service‚ they are also a much smaller source of potential growth for the company. Company B on the other hand utilizes far more services and has the potential to earn Allied much greater revenue. With the information we have from the new ABC costing scheme we now know that Allied should be charging far more for the services rendered to company B‚ and less for the services used by company A. Current information shows that company B
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Allied Office Products Case Objective: This case provides practice in Activity-Based- Analysis (ABC) calculations for a service company. It also highlights the important considerations in moving from ABC to Activity-Based Management (ABM) and further into Strategic Cost Management (SCM) so as to influence customer behavior and profitability. Q1. Using the information in Exhibit 2 calculate ABC based service costs for the TFC distribution/warehouse services. These are some broad steps that
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Decision at Applied Office Product Company ’s Background In 1992‚ Allied Office Products was a corporation with annual sales of $900 million. It deals with manufacturing of following forms : * Business Forms * Specialty paper product such as writing paper‚ envelopes‚ note cards‚ and greeting cards In 1988‚ as form manufacturing business matures‚ Allied Office Product had expanded into business form inventory management system and put a step ahead to attain a competitive advantage by embarking
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Case: Allied Office Products Company A costs Allied less money to service‚ they are also a much smaller source of potential growth for the company. Company B on the other hand utilizes far more services and has the potential to earn Allied much greater revenue. With the information we have from the new ABC costing scheme we now know that Allied should be charging far more for the services rendered to company B‚ and less for the services used by company A. Current information shows that company
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Question 1 Activity Based Service Cost for the TFC business Activity | Total Activity Cost (’000) | Activity Driver | Usage | Actual Cost | Storage | $ 1‚550 | Number of Cartons | 350‚000 | $ 4.43 | Requisition Handling | $ 1‚801 | Number of Requisition | 310‚000 | $ 5.81 | Basic Warehouse stock selection | $ 761 | Number of Requisition × 2.5 lines | 775‚000 | $
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entry 0.79 910 718.61 2‚500 1‚974.19 Desk top delivery 29.41 - - 26 764.71 Inventory handling 1‚950.00 6‚815.00 Freight - 52 2‚250 156 7‚500 Cost of distribution 10‚434.51 29‚829.21 Cost of product 50‚000 50‚000 Total cost 60‚434.51 79‚829.21 Sales income 79‚320 79‚320 Profit 18‚885.49 -509.21 3. What inference do you draw about the profitability of these two customers? I assume customer A has a much
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Allied Products Assignment Allied Products‚ Inc.‚ has recently won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS). This system is designed to give airplane pilots additional warning of approaching ground danger and thus help prevent crashes. Allied Products has spent $10 million in research and development the past four years developing GPWS. The GPWS will be put on the market beginning this year and Allied Products expects it
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| 2012 | | Capella University MBA 6008; Global Economics LYNETTE E. DZWIELEWSKI | [aLLIED HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS‚ INC.] | | Health economics is a subdivision of economics central to issues correlated with the effectiveness‚ significance and performance in the structure‚ production and utilization of the healthcare industry—and the evaluation of numerous categories of calculated financial information including: measured value‚ consumer costs and industry expenditures
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1 Dakota current allocates warehousing‚ distribution and order entry cost equally to each customer. DOP’s pricing system is generally independent of the specific level of service provided for customers. They just chose a single cost drive. However‚ it’s not believable and proper to use this simple method to analyze costs when costs are more complex. So we need to use activity-based cost system to chose different cost drives and allocate costs based on the activity. 2 We identify four different activities
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Office Dakota Products Case Analysis Course: BUSA 5061 Managerial Accounting Students Name: Teresa Willette Professors Name: Dr. Conner/Dr. Pollard Date 3/20/2011 Executive Summary The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In the analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate
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