Cost allocation is a method to determine the cost of services provided to users of that service. It does not determine the price of the service‚ but rather determines what the service costs to provide. It is important to determine the cost allocation of the services‚ in order to determine a justifiable fee/charge/tax for those services. Included in cost allocation are direct‚ indirect‚ and incremental costs. Direct costs‚ or separable costs‚ are costs that are related to a single type of service
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PROBLEM 4–14 Comprehensive Problem—Weighted-Average Method [LO2‚ LO3‚ LO4‚ LO5] Honeybutter‚ Inc.‚ manufactures a product that goes through two departments prior to completion—the Mixing Department followed by the Packaging Department. The following information is available about work in the first department‚ the Mixing Department‚ during June. Required: Assume that the company uses the weighted-average method. 1.Determine the equivalent units for June for the Mixing Department.
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Cost of Capital Jenny Lopez-Guerrero‚ Malika Hobheidar‚ Phyllis Hebert and Sierra Harkness FIN571 February 23‚ 2015 William Stokes Cost of Capital In the Wiley plus simulation (2012)‚ we are introduced to Pfizer‚ the world ’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company‚ Pfizer develops their own pharmaceutical products. Ahmed Singh‚ a consultant accountant who works for the Pfizer Treasury Department‚ explains that his role in the company is "to think and plan
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The costs for services that are provided in each department of a medical facility must be analyzed and allocated. These costs are indirect and are usually allocated by using two common methods known as the direct method and step-down method. The direct method is used “ to allocate costs from the general services departments to each patient service department in one step” (Smith‚ 2014). The direct method calls for financial accounting to document the immediate movable expenses that is in each
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does Mortensen estimate Midland’s cost of capital? What would be the potential consequences of a too high estimate compared to the firm’s “true” cost of capital? What about a too low estimate? The purpose is that the cost capital will be used for capital budgeting‚ financial accounting‚ performance assessment‚ stock repurchases estimations. Also the cost of capital is a necessary basis for the expected growth and forecasted demand. The too high estimated cost of capital means that Midland may miss
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ARTICLE RESEARCH ON ABC COST METHODOLOGY Factors influencing the performance of activity based costing teams: a field study of ABC model development time in the automobile industry 1- What is the research objective of the article? The main objective of this article is to study how the different variables explained by the text affect the final outcome of the company. This study is in charge of demonstrating how can the ABC implementation; used by a large group of companies‚ could make the main
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Illustrate with example of demand for households refrigerator or television set. 3. Analyse the method by which a firm can allocate the given advertising budget between different media of advertisement. 4. What kind of relationship would you postulate between short-run and long-run average cost curves when these are not U-shaped as suggested by the modern theories? 5. How do demand forecasting methods for new products vary from those for established products? AMITY SCHOOL OF DISTANCE LEARNING Post
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Chapter 04 Demand 10. The long-run price elasticity of demand for a product is generally _________ the short-run elasticity for the same product. A. lower than B. equal to C. higher than D. not comparable to 11. Assume the demand function for skin care products is given by Q = 1‚000 – 20 P + 5I. If P=$25 and I=$1‚000 currently‚ then: A. skin care products are a normal good. B. the elasticity of demand is equal to 11. C. skin care products are inferior. D. The price is too high
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Determining the Cost of Capital Can One Size Fit All? 1. Why do you think Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate? Is it justifiable to use the firm’s weighted average cost of capital as the divisional cost of capital? Please explain. Larry wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate because it would provide him with a standard with which to measure feasibility of future investment proposal. The firm had thus far been using a ‘gut feel’ approach and although most of
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If the price of Pepsi increases‚ people realize they must give up more of other goods when they buy another Pepsi. * Scarcity = finite resources and infinite wants‚ we must make choices. Scarce resources have positive opportunity costs. * Opportunity Cost = highest valued alternative use of any resource (what we give up). * Production Possibilities Curve: On the line is efficient‚ using all of our productive resources. At points A or B‚ we must give up some of one to make more of the
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