products shows how profitable the products are after deducting all cost. However‚ it is important to find the appropriate method of overhead cost allocation. In Sippican’s case the traditional accounting method is used‚ which does not reflect the real resource usage of the different product lines. The correct method in this case would be to apply the time-driven ABC approach for cost allocation. Such method apart from showing the actual profitability after all cost deductions also depicts the differences
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Sippican Corporation According to the activity based costing‚ the manufacturing overhead should be apportioned in the following method The Direct Material cost per unit and the direct labour cost per unit for the valves‚ pumps and the flow controller is given below. Direct Material Direct Labour Total Units Cost/unit cost/unit Valves 7500 16 12.35 Pumps 12500 20 16.25 Flow Controller 4000 22 13 The total manufacturing overhead of $654600 should be apportioned based on the activity required for
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1 SIPPICAN CORPORATION CASE ANALYSYS 20229 Cost Management System 2 Executive Summary Company Overview Accounting method Production process Activities performed Q1. Should Sippican use a contribution margin approach? Explanation Q2. Capacity cost rates for resources Q3. a. Revised costs and profits b. Product costs and profitability analysis with the new allocation method. Cause of the shifts in values. Q4. What actions should the management take to improve
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The Sippican Corporation Cost System Analysis We were tasked with analyzing Sippican’s costing structure to determine if activity based costing can give a clearer picture of the company’s true costs. Currently‚ Sippican assigns overhead costs at a flat rate across all three products. (4-54c) Our analysis of cost and profitability reveals a dramatic difference between the cost to produce each product as reported using Sippican’s traditional costing structure and the detailed analysis
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Sippican Corporation Sippican Corporation Questions: 1. Given some of the apparent problems with Sippican’s cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? Answer: Consider Sippican is a manufacturer company with multiple products‚ using simple cost accounting system that directly allocate factory overhead to unit of product entirely through
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Review Paper Case IH MX 305 Jon Hansen When you see a Case IH 305 plowing in the field there is more than what meets the eye. First off most people just notice the red color and never give it a second look‚ but there are so many things that you are overlooking. The Case IH MX 305 Magnum is a powerful machine. It is the second biggest front wheel assist tractor in the Case IH line up. It has right around three hundred horsepower. It is a nice sized tractor that can do just about everything
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the number of units produced per production run- it is 375 for valves and 18 for flow controllers per production run. This shows the reason for high overheads cost too. Hence it calls for checking the cost allocation system of the company. Since Sippican produces three different products which comprise of different components‚ processes for all three need to be customised and refined to bring in any kind of standards. Variations in batch size owing to the machining constraints etc. are brought in
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CASE 14-2: TRIGO EXPORT CO.‚ LTD. The pricing of products for export sale is covered here‚ with logistics practices and costs having considerable influence. Question 1: Ziola’s export packaging materials consisted of at least 40% recycled contents. Should this be mentioned in the quotation given to the potential Brazilian buyer? It would not hurt in case somebody reviewing the bid happened also to be interested in environmental protection. However‚ note that they are buying tractors to use in
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Strategic Management (Spring 2013) Case Analyses—Schedule‚ Format‚ and Required Items Per the syllabus‚ p. 4-5‚ you must submit three (3) written Case Analyses. Each of these case analyses (papers) is worth a maximum of 100 points. Below the cases are grouped into UNIT 1‚ UNIT 2‚ and UNIT 3 case options. You must complete one (1) case paper from EACH of these Units (3 case papers total). No late cases will be accepted for a grade. NOTE: The first case appearing on the Course Schedule (Feb
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to identify whether there is common agreement in the literature on warehouse design approaches and thus whether some basic steps could be used as an overall framework in the warehouse design process. III. Objectives The main issue regarding the case company of this study is to find ways to improve warehouse cycle times through reorganization of order processing and materials handling activities. The primary objective of this study is to construct a warehouse design framework for cycle time
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