CHAPTER 11 DECISION MAKING AND RELEVANT INFORMATION SHORT‐ANSWER QUESTIONS 11‐1 The five steps in the decision process outlined in Exhibit 11‐1 of the text are 1. Identify the problem and uncertainties 2. Obtain information 3. Make predictions about the future 4. Make decisions by choosing among alternatives 5. Implement the decision‚ evaluate performance‚ and learn An example of interdependencies include absenteeism/low employee morale and increased labour costs. 11‐2
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Question 1: Define accounting. Answer : Accounting is a process of identifying the events of financial nature‚ recording them in Journal‚ classifying in their respective ledgers‚ summarising them in Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet and communicating the results to the users of such information‚ viz. owner/s‚ government‚ creditors‚ investors etc. According to the American Institute of Certified Accountants‚ 1941‚ “Accounting is an art of recording‚ classifying and summarising in a significant
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2 Company Operations Tutorial Solutions Chapter 3 Company operations Review Questions 11. When do dividends become a legal debt of the company? When are they to be recognised as liabilities? Where a company has a constitution that provides for directors to declare a dividend‚ then a dividend becomes a debt of the company once the dividend is declared. Where no such statement exists in a company’s constitution‚ then the debt will only arise when the time for payment of the dividend arrives. However
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affected by pandemics such HIV/AIDS and malaria. A basket of consumer goods were launched to this effect which included Product Red- American express card‚ vintage t-shirts‚ Motorola handsets‚ converse wear‚ apple iPod‚ Emperio Armani and also an edition of the Independent. The Red manifesto‚ clearly outlined the core reason as‚ “we believe that when consumers are offered this choice and the products meet their needs they will choose red…when they choose red over non-red‚ then more brands will choose
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Accountancy AC5521 Cost and Management Accounting Semester B‚ 2012-2013 Instructor: Dr. Hao ZHANG Tel: Office: Email: Office Hours: Time Venue 3442-8546 G7752 haozhang@cityu.edu.hk Wed 3:00 pm to 6: pm Thursdays (9:00 am – 11:50 am) AC1 P4701 Course Aims This course aims to provide students with: 1. 2. 3. 4. an introduction to cost and management accounting for internal reporting and decision making purposes; familiarity with cost terminology‚ and management accounting reports; the ability to apply
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Chapter 5: Cost Behavior: Analysis and Use As we shall see in later chapters‚ the ability to predict how costs respond to changes in activity is critical for making decisions‚ controlling operations‚ and evaluating performance. Three major classifications of costs were discussed in this chapter—variable‚ fixed‚ and mixed. Mixed costs consist of variable and fixed elements and can be expressed in equation form as Y = a + bX‚ where X is the activity‚ Y is the cost‚ a is the fixed cost element‚ and
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Solutions to Problems and Exercises TABLE OF CONTENTS * Chapter 1 1 Concepts for Analysis 1-5 1 Concepts for Analysis 1-6 2 Concepts for Analysis 1-10 3 Concepts for Analysis 1-11 3 * Chapter 2 4 Brief Exercise 2-3 4 Brief Exercise 2-4 4 Brief Exercise 2-5 4 Exercise 2-3 5 * Chapter 3 6 Exercise 3-6 6 Exercise 3-9 6 Exercise 3-11 8 Exercise 3-14 10 Exercise 3-15 10 Exercise 3-16 10 * chapter 4 12 Exercise 4-2 12 Exercise 4-4 13 Exercise 4-5 16 Exercise 4-12 17
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hello‚ welcome everyone... today i have come here to talk about the topic "every roses has its thorns" the topic symbolically denotes that ‚" to enjoy any beautiful or pleasant thing‚you must endure something difficult or painful " if we are doing something and getting it wrong is atleast ten times more productive than doing nothing.every success has a trail of failures behind it‚ and every failure is leading towards success.we end up regretting the things we did not do far ‚ more than the things
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SEMESTER: MEI 2013 BBAP 2103 COURSE: BACHELOR (HONS) MANAGEMENT (BIM) (A7470) COURSE TITLE: MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING MATRICULATION NO : RF179118001 IDENTITY CARD NO : RF179118 TELEPHONE NO : 0167386906 E-MAIL : vnod_86@yahoo.com LEARNING CENTRE : SEAMEO RECSAM LEARNING CENTRE Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction of the company 2.0 Explanation on the purposes of product cost information is
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Although these works exist within the framework of two distinctive realities‚ the nature of the possible and the impossible in Alphabet of Thorn versus Year of Our War their treatment of the nature of impossibility is fundamentally defined by the notion of perception. In order for a distinction between impossible and possible to be effectively conveyed‚ the novel must first establish a reality. Both books work within the constraints of an unexplained but clearly defined internal logic. The reality
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