Case Study – Activity – Based Management in Shell Gabon Case Requirements 1. SG TOTAL UOC per barrel = $140‚640‚200/(120‚000 barrels/day * 365 days/year) = $3.21/barrel Barrels of oil produced is a cost driver for some of the activities in RDS‚ but not all are driven by production of oil. UOC = Total Operating Expense (OPEX) excluding exploration‚ depreciation‚ and depletion therefore there are other activities like exploration‚ new capital equipment for exploration‚ research and development
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all the activities that go on within RDS? Comment on why RDS chooses to monitor costs per barrel. The UOC per barrel for SG is $3.21. OPEX | $140‚640‚200 | 120‚000 | barrels/day | | | 365 | days/year | Total | $140‚640‚200 | 43‚800‚000 | barrels/year | Unit Operating Cost (UOC) | $3.21 | | | *UOC = (Total Operating Expense – Exploration – Depreciation & Depletion) / Barrels Produced Barrels of oils produced may be a cost driver for some activities in RDS‚ but not all activities are driven
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ISSN 1940-204X Activity-Based Management in Shell Gabon* Shahid Ansari Babson College Jan Bell Babson College Background Table 1 SG’s 2000 OPEX Cost Forecast 2 During the 1990s‚ world events‚ such as Russia’s increased oil production and Asia’s economic meltdown‚ caused excess oil supply. In fact‚ by mid-2002‚ there was over 6 million barrels per day of excess production capacity. Oil prices‚ much like any other commodity prices‚ respond to supply conditions with wide price
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Shell Gabon 11/6/2014 Cost Accounting Case Study 1. The UOC is calculated by dividing the total operating cost‚ excluding exploration‚ depreciation‚ and depletion by the barrels produced. In the case of RDS not all activities can be traced directly to a barrel of oil. There are departments such as Human Resource Management and Business Management that are not directly related to this measure. It makes sense for RDS to use barrels as the primary cost driver due to the large cost of the Production
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TOPIC: ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Activity based management (ABM) is an approach to management that aims to maximize the value adding activities to the customers while minimizing or eliminating non-value adding activities. The objective of ABM is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization in securing its markets. It draws on activity based-costing (ABC) as its major source of information and focuses on managing activities to (1) reduce costs‚ (2) create performance
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Cost Management is a combination of philosophy‚ an attitude and a set of techniques to create more customer value and to achieve lower cost. It goes beyond historical measurements and reporting to assess the impacts of current and proposed decisions. Activity Based Management (ABM) is one of the major disciplines of cost management that focuses on the management of activities as a way to improve customer value and profit. The Basics Concept of Activity Based Management The battle to sustain
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DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING STRATEGY Activity-based Management – An Overview IN THIS BRIEFING… ctivity-based management and activity-based costing (ABM/ABC) have brought about radical change in cost management systems. ABM has grown largely out of the work of the Texas-based Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing-International (CAM-I). No longer is ABM’s applicability limited to manufacturing organisations. The principles and philosophies of activity-based thinking apply equally to service companies
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Activity Based Management A Summary Managerial Accounting Abstract Activity-based management (ABM) is an approach to management that directs the focus of cost managers towards activities analysis. Theoretically by concentrating on activities‚ this will increase the ability of management to control costs be improving efficiencies. Activity-based management (ABM) uses activity-based costing (ABC) information. ABM/ABC has been around for over 25 years and has
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1.0 Introduction Activity based management (ABM) is a method of identifying and evaluating activities that a business performs using activity based costing (ABC) to carry out a value chain analysis or a re-engineering initiative to improve strategic and operational decisions in an organization. ABM can be divided into operational and strategic. Operational ABM is about “doing thing right”‚ using ABC information to improve efficiency. Those activities which add value to remain in business can
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Date: July 29‚ 2013 To: Rubrics Corporation From: Group 1 RE: Activity-Based Costing and Management Objective and Purpose It is said that Rubrics Corporation is no longer satisfied with single direct cost driver‚ which is also called Traditional Volume-Based Product-Costing System‚ because it is not accurate. A shortcoming or overloading of cost occurs when they use Traditional Volume-Based Product-Costing System to calculate cost of producing four products: Widgets‚ Gadgets‚ Smidgets‚ and Smadgets
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