Activity-Based Costing (ABC) is when you figure out the cost of activities to then discover the cost of products and services. ABC occurs in in four stages. These steps are as follows: identify activities and calculate their estimated total costs‚ identify the allocation base for each activity and estimate the total quantity of each allocation base‚ compute the predetermined overhead allocation rate for every activity‚ and allocate indirect costs to the cost object. I will use the production of a
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1. The Wilkerson Company is in the business of manufacturing valves‚ pumps and flow controllers. The company has been experiencing profit losses due to price reductions as a result of heavy competition in the pump category‚ which is considered a commodity product. In the valves category‚ Wilkerson seems to be a market leader with a loyal customer base. The valve business is less competitive‚ with no price reductions‚ and therefore the company has maintained its gross margin target while not compromising
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1. According to the case‚ if using ABC‚ Wilkerson should pool overheads into five activities: machine-related expenses‚ setup labor cost‚ receiving and production control cost‚ engineering cost‚ and packaging and shipping cost. The cost pool/cost driver information for an Activity Based Costing (ABC) system for Wilkerson has already provided by table 1. Based on the information on table 1 and four exhibit in case‚ we can figure out that the total cost per unit of valves‚ pumps and flow controllers
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Activity based costing in manufacturing: two case studies on implementation The Authors Amrik S. Sohal‚ Department of Management‚ Monash University‚ Australia Walter W.C. Chung‚ Department of Manufacturing Engineering‚ Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the Financial Controller at MelCo and to Mr Richard Siu‚ now Deputy General Manager of Ciba Specialty Chemicals (China) Ltd. They are also thankful to the Hong Kong Government Industry
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1. Describe in words how costs are assigned in the Wilkerson’s current costing system. Discuss the pros and cons of this system. Wilkerson uses a simple traditional cost accounting system in which each unit of product is charged for direct material‚ direct labor and overhead costs. Material cost is based on the prices paid for component under annual purchasing agreements. Labor cost is charged to products based on the standard run times for each product. Labor rates‚ including fringe benefits
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AIM 6202 – Wilkerson Company Everything you need is in the case and in the requirements provided below. I will not provide any interim feedback on this case so please do not send me any preliminary analysis to check whether you are “on track.” Address the issues/questions provided below in your case report. The format of the write up can be either in the form of detailed answers to each of the questions below or as a comprehensive‚ smooth-flowing case analysis. No page limits and you
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Assessment 2 – Individual By – Andrew Chan WILKERSON COMPANY Overview Wilkerson Company is facing a decline in profits and has attributed this to a severe price cutting exercise in their Pumps line of products‚ dropping the company’s pre-tax margin to less than 3%‚ far below the historically healthy 10% margins. It appears that gross margins on pump sales in the latest month had fallen below 20%‚ well below the budgeted gross margin of 35%. Although a recent increase to Flow Controllers
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Activity-Based Costing: a Case Study on a Taiwanese Hot Spring Country Inn’s Cost Calculations Wen-Hsien Tsai Department of Business Administration National Central University‚ Chung-Li‚ Taiwan‚ ROC Jui-Ling Hsu Department of Business Administration National Central University‚ Chung-Li‚ Taiwan‚ ROC Department of International Trade Ta-Hwa Institute of Technology‚ Hsin-Chu‚ Taiwan‚ ROC Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze the operational costs of a hot spring inn in the
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Differences between Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Cost Strategy Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies overhead activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity resource to all products and services according to the actual consumption‚ while traditional costing equally distributes all overhead expenses. Thus‚ an organization employing ABC‚ can precisely estimate the cost of its individual products and services for the purposes of identifying and
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Web-Based Application Development implications for project management and development processes The unique nature of many web-based applications broadens the role of traditional project management and adds a new dimension to the software development process.In addition to the participation and contribution of analysts‚ designers‚ programmers‚ architects‚ managers‚ domain experts and so on‚ web-based applications often contain significant multimedia content (images‚ movie clips‚ sound clips and
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