Grading Summary These are the automatically computed results of your exam. Grades for essay questions‚ and comments from your instructor‚ are in the "Details" section below. Date Taken: 2/1/2015 Time Spent: 1 h ‚ 22 min ‚ 27 secs Points Received: 190 / 190 (100%) Question Type: # Of Questions: # Correct: Multiple Choice 10 10 Short 4 4 Grade Details - All Questions Page: 1 of 2 Question 1. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following is NOT a difference between Financial Accounting and Managerial
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Critical review of the Traditional Paradigm of Management Accounting Arnold and Hope (1983) defined that management accounting is considered to provide the information to managers to assist them to make decisions about the ways in which an organisation’s resources should be allocated. Puxty (1998) said that a framework should be provided because of many different approaches that can be taken to define a subject. Also‚ in order to understand management accounting‚ it is necessary to study the assumptions
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1. Activity Based Costing benefits businesses that are more complex in nature. In this case‚ Greetings. INC has added a new product line‚ Wall Decor‚ which permits them to grow without expanding their physical stores; however‚ they have significantly raised their overhead costs by multiplying their cost drivers. Not to mention the fact that they have incorporated a largely automated system into their product line‚ which we know calls for an ABC system. The main reason to move to ABC though‚ would
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Managerial accounting is for internal users (managers ) who plan‚ control‚ and make decision. 2.Why do you need Managerial Accounting? The three objectives of a management accounting information system are: 1.To provide information for costing
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NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (1202) HANDBOOK OF EXERCISES 2014 / 2015 Page 1 / 69 NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (1202) HANDBOOK OF EXERCISES 2014-20151 I - Introduction to Management Accounting Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 - The MA Company - The Alimentar Company - The Alfa Company - The Metalex Company - The Reparadora Company - The DoceAroma Company II - Inventory Valuation and Profit Measurement
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PAPER F5 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT P R A C T I C E & R E V I S I O N K I T In this January 2010 new edition We discuss the best strategies for revising and taking your ACCA exams We show you how to be well prepared for your exam We give you lots of great guidance on tackling questions We show you how you can build your own exams We provide you with three mock exams including the December 2009 exam We provide the ACCA examiner ’s answers as well as our own to the June and December 2009 exams as
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cost management system called COMEX (cost management expert system). The article offers an explanation of what the system is designed to do and how it assists billing departments within a company in particular. The system assists in the gathering of costing data pertaining to products‚ services and customers (Grahovac & Devedzic‚ 2010). Cost management is vital to the success of any business thus this article is very useful. Beyond that‚ the article is very detailed and descriptive so as to not leave
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using activity based costing to allocate operating expenses to products and customers. The overall process is important to the ultimate success of the bank‚ so it needs to be logical and transparent. The bank’s project team came up with 3 questions for the activity-based costing: “How should it define resource pools? What activities should it define? Should it analyze costs by product or by customer?” These questions seem very logical in helping implement the activity based costing. By writing the parts
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those products that were more costly to produce were priced lower than their actual cost price. 2. Provide a brief analysis of the attached (page 2 of this document) activity-based costing system. Do you agree with the activities and/or cost drivers identified for each activity? Why or why not? The activity based costing divides the operating costs into five different areas and allocates the overheads based on the actual costs incurred by each activity. In this case the operating costs are divided
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greater differences between relative proportions of indirect resources used by cost objects because traditional cost assignments based on volume-related measures do not accurately reflect these differences. 5-2 Volume-based traditional product costing systems that use only drivers that vary directly with the volume of products produced—such as direct labor dollars‚ direct labor hours‚ or machine hours—are most likely to distort product costs under the following two conditions: (1) Indirect and
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