Financial statements are a necessity when it comes to businesses. They are used by both internal managers as well as outside users and provide information about the entire company. Managerial accounting is primarily used by individuals within a company or organization. The main purpose of financial accounting is to prepare financial reports that provide information about an organization’s performance to external parties like creditors‚ investors and tax authorities (Hilton‚ 2006). There are several
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Welcome to Managerial Accounting. In this module‚ we will provide a general overview of activity based costing‚ specifically: What is activity based costing? Welcome to Managerial Accounting Instructor: O Martin Email Instructor __________________________ ACTIVITY BASED COSTING SYSTEM Two stage process Activity pools Activity categories With & Without ABC example What is Activity based costing (ABC)? Activity based costing (ABC) assigns manufacturing overhead costs to products in a more logical
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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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Benedictine University MBA 601 Managerial Accounting Final Project (paper) Outsourcing In today’s business environment‚ outsourcing becomes more and more popular and important for all kind of companies because more and more companies realized the benefits of outsourcing. Outsourcing is the process by which the company contracts to another one to supply some goods and services. Outsourcing is not only used in the domestic business‚ but also used in the international business that is the offshoring
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partners as well. In terms of operations‚ business enterprise runs smooth given the cross-functional systems. This saves times and dramatically improves the efficiency of total operation. it can act strategically #3. Which of the 13 tools for accounting information systems summarized in Figure 7.18 do you feel are essential for any business to have today? Which of them do you feel are optional‚ depending on the type of business or other factor? Explain. Essential : 1) Sales Order Processing-
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“Lecture Preparation Instructions” tab in Vista prior to each class for detailed instructions and reading assignments. Each lecture will require 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
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charges apply to his/her department. This possibly can be minimized by explaining the facility level costs are not directly associated with a specific product or service‚ but incurred to support the facility as a whole. 16. What is the relationship between activity-based management and just-in-time inventory? Activity-based costing involves two allocation stages and includes a multitude of cost drivers. The ABC assigns costs to pools; and during the second stage the cost pools are allocated to products
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ACT 5733 – Advanced Managerial Accounting Fall 2012 HW #3 Question #1 Consider the following potential investment‚ which has the same risk as the firm’s other projects: Time Cash Flow 0 -$95‚000 1 $20‚000 2 $24‚000 3 $24‚000 4 $24‚000 5 $24‚000 6 $32‚000 a) What are the investment’s payback period‚ IRR‚ and NPV‚ assuming the firm’s WACC is 10%. b) If the firm requires a payback period of less than 5 years‚ should this project be accepted? Answer: Yes it should accept
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TEST BANK CHAPTER 1 Intercorporate Investments: An Overview MULTIPLE CHOICE Use the following information on a company’s investments in equity securities to answer questions 1- 4 below. The company’s accounting year ends December 31. | |Date of acquisition|Cost |Fair value |Date sold |Selling price | |Investment | | |12/31/10 | |
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Key Figures for the Exercises‚ Problems and Cases To Accompany Managerial Accounting Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment 9th Edition McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2011 by Ronald W. Hilton CHAPTER 1 No key figures. CHAPTER 2 E 2-24 Beginning inventory of finished goods‚ case I: $84‚000 E 2-25 1. Total compensation: $720 E 2-26 2. Total overtime premium: $20 E 2-29 2. Cost of goods sold: $820‚000 E 2-30 (f) $77‚000 (o) $110 E 2-31 2. Cost per call
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