Chapter 1 Basic Cost Concepts Learning Objectives • To understand the meaning of different costing terms to understand different costing methods • To have a basic idea of different costing techniques • To understand the meaning of cost sheet In order to determine and take a dispassionate view about what lies beneath the surface of accounting figures‚ a financial analyst has to make use of different management accounting techniques. Cost techniques have a precedence over the other
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ACCT2201 CORPORATE ACCOUNTING Tutorial 8 – Week beginning 5th of May REVIEW QUESTIONS Chapter 15 8. When are potential voting rights considered when deciding if one entity controls another? Potential voting rights are rights to obtain voting rights of an investee‚ such as within an option or convertible instrument. Potential voting rights are only considered if the rights are substantive ie practical or utilitarian. This depends on the terms and conditions associated with the options.
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SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM SET A PROBLEM SET A 2.1 (b) Service Revenue $19‚000 Expenses: Salaries Expense $1‚200 Rent Expense 400 Advertising Expense 1‚300 2‚900 Profit $16‚100 OR Increase in Retained Earnings ($15‚700 - $0) $15‚700 Add: Dividends 400 Profit $16‚100 PROBLEM SET A 2.2 (a) Bell Consulting Pty Ltd Assets Liabilities Equity Date Cash + Accounts Receivable + Supplies + Office Equipment
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Activity-Based Costing Success: A Research Framework Zhang Yi Fei and Che Ruhana Isa becoming more and more popular [3-7] ABC aims to provide accurate costing information to managers to allocate activity costs to products and services by applying cost drivers [8]. Academics who advocate ABC‚ such as‚ Cooper and Kaplan [9]‚ and Swenson [10] argue that it provides more accurate cost data needed to make appropriate strategic decisions about product mix‚ sourcing‚ pricing‚ process improvement‚ and evaluation
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Cost Allocation Paper Cost Accounting Abstract This article’s focus is how cost accounting allocates costs of a manufacturing plant. All things are hypothetical. The conclusions of this report regarding costing of commercial services provided by Goodyear Tire should be recognized as a theory of the way Goodyear Tire conducts business activities‚ rather than suggestions of how Goodyear Tire should conduct business. Goodyear Tire is a publically traded company‚ which has many different
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Cost Classifications and Estimation 2.0 Introduction Cost classification may be defined as ‘the arrangement of cost items in a logical sequence having regard to their nature and purpose to be fulfilled’. The term cost must be qualified when in use in order that its precise meaning is established in a particular situation; however‚ cost refers to the amount of resources that have been diverted from other uses or sacrificed so as to achieve the desired objective. But the term is used to refer to
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Chapter 2 Recording Business Transactions √ Quick Check Answers: 1. a 3. b 5. d 7. d 9. c 2. c 4. c 6. a 8. a 10. b Explanations: 3. b. Owner’s equity is $130‚000 ($50‚000 + $60‚000 + $200‚000 – $80‚000 – $100‚000). 7. d. Supplies balance is $1‚200 ($500 + $700). The payment of accounts payable does not affect supplies. 9. c. Ending equity is $70‚000‚ computed as follows: Beginning owner’s equity…….. $ 50‚000 Add: Net income: Revenues……………….. $110‚000
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Assignment: Cost Accounting Applied By Professor Bryan Womack Course Title ACC 350012VA016-1122-001 Cost Accounting February 26‚ 2012 Companies that are successful financially know what their costs are and how those costs are being spent. The company I have chosen wants to change from a general accounting system where costs are put in general categories and they currently do not have any allocation
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CHAPTER 3 COST-VOLUME-PROFIT ANALYSIS TRUE/FALSE 1. To perform cost-volume-profit analysis‚ a company must be able to separate costs into fixed and variable components. Answer: True Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis 2. Cost-volume-profit analysis may be used for multi-product analysis when the proportion of different products remains constant. Answer: True Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: cost-volume-profit
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1. Introduction The term experiment is defined as the systematic procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order to discover an unknown effect‚ to test or establish a hypothesis‚ or to illustrate a known effect. When analyzing a process‚ experiments are often used to evaluate which process inputs have a significant impact on the process output‚ and what the target level of those inputs should be to achieve a desired result (output). Experiments can be designed in many different ways to
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