PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING TECHNIQUES MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING ‘In the broadest sense‚ all accounting is management accounting. All financial and cost information generated by accountants is of some interest to management. But‚ in practice‚ where management accounting differs from financial accounting ...’ (from An Insight into Management Accounting by John Sizer) Required: (a) (b) Give a brief definition of management accounting. (6 marks) Give a discussion of
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understand exactly where the boundaries lie between the departments (Brennan & Blades‚ 2008). The following is a job description for a cost accountant position which I worked several years ago. Cortec Coated Products |Job Title: Cost Accountant |Job Code: | |Department: Accounting |Job Grade: 8 | |Revision Date:
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_____ 1. Cost accounting systems are used to supply cost data information on costs incurred by a manufacturing process or department. True False 2. A manufacturer may employ a job order cost system for some of its products and a process cost system for others. True False 3. A job order cost accounting system provides for a separate record of the cost of each particular quantity of product that passes through the factory. True False 4. A process cost accounting system provides
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overhead costs to the products shows how profitable the products are after deducting all cost. However‚ it is important to find the appropriate method of overhead cost allocation. In Sippican’s case the traditional accounting method is used‚ which does not reflect the real resource usage of the different product lines. The correct method in this case would be to apply the time-driven ABC approach for cost allocation. Such method apart from showing the actual profitability after all cost deductions
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lower product cost). However‚ the increased profit is‚ at best‚ a twist in truth. Costs of the product not charged to the product itself are borne by other products of the firm. Worse‚ undercosting a product may result in managers erroneously believing the product to be more profitable than other products and shifting the limited resource the firm has into manufacturing‚ promotion‚ and sales of the product when‚ in fact‚ other products are more profitable to the firm. Severe cost distortions may
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these issues‚ which are: ▪ Cost pool volume. The advantage of an ABC system is the high quality of information that it produces‚ but this comes at the cost of using a large number of cost pools – and the more cost pools there are‚ the greater the cost of managing the system. To reduce this cost‚ run an ongoing analysis of the cost to maintain each cost pool‚ in comparison to the utility of the resulting information. Doing so should keep the number of cost pools down to manageable proportions
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Management Accounting Approach Jordi Carenys Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School EADA‚ c/o Aragó 204‚ 08011 Barcelona‚ Spain E-mail: jcarenys@eada.edu Tel: 934 520 844; Fax: 933 237 317 Web: www.eada.edu Xavier Sales Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School E-mail: xsales@eada.edu Abstract The present study aims to outline the characteristics of the cost systems used in banking institutions. It does so by describing the partial costs and full
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11 Service Department and Joint Cost Allocation Solutions to Review Questions 1. Companies allocate costs to estimate or assess the costs of their activities (products‚ processes‚ etc.). It is an estimate and subject to the problem that cost allocation contains an arbitrary element. Not allocating costs‚ however‚ is also an estimate—an estimate of zero. This may be appropriate for some decisions‚ but not for others. Some of the disadvantages (costs) include: (1) Additional bookkeeping;
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Introduction MEANING OF STANDARD COST AND STANDARD COSTING Standard Cost The word "Standard" means a "Yardstick" or "Bench Mark." The term "Standard Costs" refers to Pre-determined costs. Brown and Howard define Standard Cost as a Pre-determined Cost which determines what each product or service should cost under given circumstances. This definition states that standard costs represent planned cost of a product. Standard Cost as defined by the Institute of Cost and Management Accountant‚ London
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Master Review open production orders Work in Process Raw materials release Cost analysis Production Cycle Problem The first step in the production cycle is product design. Poor product design drives up the costs in several ways. Using to many unique components when producing similar products increases the costs associating with material inventory. 65%-80% of the cost of a product is set at the design stage. Design decisions will affect every part of production cycle
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