Phase 2 Assignment Brief Individual Task - Costing Assignment - Fairview Manor An activity on apportionment of costs and breakeven analysis. Learning Objectives At the end of this activity you should be able to:- Apportion fixed costs to several products Use breakeven analysis to help to determine the effects of different prices Outline For this activity you will be working in your groups during the Pod session in week 3. There is an individual task which
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CHAPTER 13 SHORT-RUN DECISION MAKING: RELEVaNT COSTING 1 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Tactical decisions are short run in nature; they involve choosing among alternatives with an immediate or limited end in view. Strategic decisions involve selecting strategies that yield a long-term competitive advantage. 2. Depreciation is an allocation of a sunk cost. This cost is a past cost and will never differ across alternatives. 3. The salary of the supervisor of an assembly line with excess capacity
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Activity based costing Activity based costing is an accounting method that is created to provide manager with cost information and other that potentially affect capacity. Activity based costing is used to determine product costs for management report. This method is commonly use as a complete to the company costing system. There are two activity based costing system that most organization use. The two are the official costing system that used for preparing external financial reports and activity
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Is Shakespeare Relevant or not Relevant that is the Question? The works of William Shakespeare are world renowned and thought to high school students around the globe. William Shakespeare was a 16 century poet and play write; because of this many people argue that his works are not relevant in today’s modern society. Elements such as‚ young loves at the ages of 13 are used in his plays. These themes were realistic in the context of the time but are much unknown in today’s society. I believe that
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though “ABC has emerged as a tremendously useful guide to management action that can translate directly into higher profit” (Kaplan and Copper1991) It is not fair to say that Absorption costing is no longer relevant. In fact ABC does not conform to GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles). Absorption costing is conventionally used for external reports‚ filings and other statutory compliances; where all of the manufacturing costs and only manufacturing costs are needed. For example auditors
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Absorption Costing vs. Variable (Direct) Costing Absorption cost systems are widely used to prepare financial accounts. These systems are designed to absorb all production costs (variable or fixed) into costs of units produced. Absorption costs techniques allow manufacturing costs to be traced and allocated into product costs. There are different types of absorption costing systems: job order costing‚ process costing‚ and ABC costing. In job order costing‚ costs are assigned to products in batches
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LIFE CYCLE COSTING Life cycle costing (LCC) is the process of collecting‚ interpreting and analyzing data and using quantitative tools and techniques to predict the future resources that will be required in any life cycle of a system of interest. LCC can also be defined as a technique to establish the total cost of ownership. It is a structured approach addresses all the elements of this cost and can used to produce a spend profile of a product over its life span. The result of LCC usually
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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 accurate
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Staying Relevant The role of Information Technology in Creating Economic Sustainability Kip Garland‚ founder - innovationSEED Sustaining an organization‚ be it a business‚ a government‚ or other groupings of people‚ requires the ability to create new growth. When organizations stop growing - they lose their relevancy. Economic studies show that sustaining growth in productive sectors is increasingly difficult. From 1950 to 2005 the average time that top company could sustain its relevancy
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MARGINAL AND ABSORPTION COSTING Marginal costing is a technique in which production units are valued at marginal cost of production and fixed costs are written off as period costs. It follows that‚ stocks are valued using only the variable cost of production whereas fixed costs are treated as relating to the period and must be taken off in total. Management accounting is based on marginal costing. TERMINOLOGY USED. Gross contribution: Is the difference between sales value and variable costs
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