preparation. Identify Issues Analyze Data Build Model Run Model Make Decision Management Accounting: Decision-making The Corporate Environment: Corporations are a conglomeration of people with a common purpose. The individuals seek to attain goals for the corporation‚ with the ultimate goal being profitability. In order to achieve this goal‚ management performs a variety of activities. 1) 2) 3) Planning: strategically deciding how‚ where and when to use the firm’s limited resources Directing
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Chapter 10 Study Notes Standard: a benchmark or ‘norm’ for measuring performance (what we expect to happen).Using these standards we have Quantity and Price Standards. Quantity Standards: how much of an input should be used in manufacturing a unit of product or in providing a unit of service (similar to a cook recipe: list of items and how much to use) Cost (Price) Standards: the cost (purchase price) of the units should be (how much we expect to pay for a particular item) Management
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Q1: There are two different types of cost accounting systems: Job order cost systems and process cost systems. How does management decide whether to use a job order cost system or a process cost system in any given manufacturing situation? Explain. Job order cost system is used in situations where many different products are produced each period. For example‚ a Levi Strauss clothing factory would typically make many different types of jeans for both men and women during a month. A particular order
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Chapter 9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objective 1 9-2 Learning objective 1 • List and explain five purposes of budgeting systems. Purposes of Budgeting Systems Budget Budget a detailed plan‚ expressed in quantitative terms‚ that specifies how resources will be acquired and used during a specified period of time. 1. Planning 2. Facilitating Communication and Coordination 3
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is better. Q2. Assume that you have given a choice between incurring an immediate outlay of Rs 10‚000 and having to pay Rs 2310 a year for 5 years (first payment due one year from now) the discount rate is 11%. What would be your choice? Will your answer change if Rs 2310 is paid in the beginning of each year for 5 years? Ans Option 1: Annuity Deferred: 2310*3.6959 = 8537.5 Option 2: Annuity Due 2310*3.6959 *1.11 = 9477 Both the options are better than paying lumpsum of Rs
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Chapter 1 Managerial Accounting: Tools for Decision Making Discussion QUESTIONS Q1-1. Financial accounting is oriented toward external users and is concerned with general-purpose financial statements. These financial accounting statements are highly aggregated‚ report on relatively long time periods‚ are oriented toward the past‚ and must conform to external standards. These standards emphasize the use of objective data. Management accounting is oriented toward internal users and is
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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 1. A mixed cost function has a constant component of $20‚000. If the total cost is $60‚000 and the independent variable has the value 200‚ what is the value of the slope coefficient? a. $200 b. $400 c. $600 d. $40‚000 2. [CMA Adapted] Of the following methods‚ the one that would not be appropriate for analyzing how a specific cost behaves is a. the scattergraph method. b. the industrial engineering approach. c. linear programming. d. statistical regression analysis.
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Econ Answers Chapter 3 The price of train travel increases by 10% and the demand for train travel falls by 12.5%. The price elasticity of demand for train travel is – -1.25 The short run (retail) supply of freshly cut flowers is much less elastic than that of pot plants because: -florists cannot keep freshly cut flowers as long as pot plants If demand drops to zero at the slightest increase in price‚ demand is: - Perfectly elastic Price elasticity of supply will be greater when: - firms hold large
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year. 3. Compute the cost of goods sold for the year. (Do not include any underapplied or overapplied overhead in your cost of goods sold figure.) What options are available for disposing of underapplied or overapplied overhead? 4. Job 137 was started and completed during the year. What price would have been charged to the customer if the job required $3‚200 in materials and $4‚200 in direct labor cost‚ and the company priced its jobs at 40% above the job’s cost according to the accounting system
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Chapter 3 Solutions‚ 3rd day Exercise 3-13 (15 minutes) 1. | Actual manufacturing overhead costs | | $ 48‚000 | | Manufacturing overhead applied: 10‚000 MH × $5 per MH | | 50‚000 | | Overapplied overhead cost | | $ 2‚000 | | | | | 2. | Direct materials: | | | | Raw materials inventory‚ beginning | $ 8‚000 | | | Add: Purchases of raw materials | 32‚000 | | | Raw materials available for use | 40‚000 | | | Deduct: Raw materials inventory
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