a transaction cost is a cost incurred in making an economic exchange. A number of different kinds of transaction costs exist. Search and information costs are costs such as those incurred in determining that the required good is available on the market‚ who has the lowest price‚ etc. Bargaining costs are the costs required to come to an acceptable agreement with the other party to the transaction‚ drawing up an appropriate contract‚ etc.. Policing and enforcement costs are the costs of making sure
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Cost Leadership: Any organization in order to survive in a highly competitive market should be able to achieve sustainable growth and profitability. Companies that have managed to reduce costs and understand the cost technology can obtain sustainable advantage as a cost leader. In order for any company to become a cost leader is important that the cost technology is understood and the five constituent steps are implemented and followed by the management. The five steps towards obtaining
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each purpose discuss whether information about current or future product costs is required. What implication does your answer have for developing a product costing system? L-S‚ T & H‚ page 131. Purpose Current / Future Product Costs Short-term decisions: product mix‚ pricing Future Longer-term strategic decisions Future Long-term pricing Future Plan future product-related costs Future Control of product costs Current Reimbursement contracts Current External reporting (inventory
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‚ Rose Perez‚ noticed that while small retail customers flocked to the bank‚ the number of business customers was declined. Columbia City Bank’s costing system‚ develop back in 1988‚ is straightforward. No costs are traced directly to customers. The bank simply assigns the total indirect costs to customer lines (retail customer line or business customer line) based on the total number of checks processed. The definition of a retail customer is basically any customer other than an institutional customer
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Transportation Cost & Pricing Transportation Cost & Pricing Compare and contrast the cost structures of rail‚ motor carriers‚ and air. When you compare the rail cost structure to that of the cost structures of the motor‚ and air carriers‚ you will see that the rail carriers have a high structure cost. “One of the characteristics of railroads as previously noted is the level of fixed costs present in their cost structures.” (Coyle‚ 2011) These fixed cost exists because the ownership of
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(EVM) will be used to perform the measuring and controlling of the project costs. The Project Manager and Project Sponsor will review the following earned value measurements: 1. Schedule Variance (SV) 2. Cost Variance (CV) 3. Schedule Performance Index (SPI) 4. Cost Performance Index (CPI) 5. To Complete Cost Performance Index (TCPI) 6. Estimated Actual Cost at Completion (EAC) Schedule Variance (SV) is a measurement of the schedule performance for a project‚ and is calculated by subtracting the
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long-lived assets generally include those expenditures that: 1) are made for normal repairs to maintain the usefulness of the asset over a number of years. 2) are for items that have a physical life of more than a year‚ regardless of their cost. 3) are material and that have an economic benefit to the entity only in the current year. 4) are material and that have an economic benefit to the entity that extends beyond the current year. Question 11 0 / 1 point Cassady‚ Inc.
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that incurs cost when producing a product or providing a service” (Kimmel‚ 2009‚ pg. 867). Very important detailed information on how these costs are processed through the company’s work flow. The activity-based costing system shows the company management all the deficiencies‚ where cost improvements are needed‚ and where prices need to be increase for future production or location planning. The other reasons that activity-based costing can be used are that these are variable costs. Under variable
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have a sound knowledge of cost behaviour ie fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ semi-variable costs and sunk costs. Answer: Understanding cost behaviour helps manager in anticipation of changes in cost when there is a change in their activities like production‚ sales‚ inventory pile up etc. It provides good assistance in planning‚ cost management and decision making. A number of behaviour patterns exist ranging from fixed to variable and from linear to curvilinear. Many cost predictions techniques are
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statements. b. analyzing data. c. performance reports. *d. economic events. 4. _______________ is devoted to providing information for external users. a. Management accounting *b. Financial accounting c. Internal accounting d. Cost accounting 5. Financial accounting information is used for a. investment decisions. b. regulatory measures. c. stewardship evaluation. *d. all of these. 6. Which of the following is NOT part of the financial accounting information
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