Latasha Thomas January 20‚ 2013 HSM 260 Jerome Anderson Exercise 10.1 Recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP. What are the variable costs? What are the fixed costs? How many meals will the WHDM program need to provide during the fiscal year to reach the BEP? How much profit will the program earn if it completes its 45‚000-meal contract with the City of Westchester? The variable cost of service is $3.93 during the fiscal year the WHDM should provide 1‚011 meals to reach their
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The Cost of College THE PROBLEM: The cost to attend college is high‚ and has been rising for many years. The cost of college is too high‚ a lot of people can’t afford it‚ and unemployment rates are sky high. Why is the cost of college so much? The best answer would be our economy. Our economy has a great effect on the rising prices of everything‚ including college tuition. Another factor influencing the price of college is the demand for a higher education‚ for a well-paying job is more than ever
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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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Opportunity cost Have you ever been in the situation deciding which cloth to buy? Have you ever facing the dilemma of to study or to play? Have you ever consider as a seller and choose to lower the price or raise it? In the field of economics‚ here’s a solution for you. The magic word is “opportunity cost”. Opportunity cost in terms of economy is the highest-value alternative one has to give up to engage in an activity. In other words‚ using the same resources such as money and time‚ the best
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Cost of debt When individuals use the cost of debt‚ they should know the measurement of the interest rate‚ or the yield paid to the bondholders. When analyzing the cost of debt‚ people should know that it ’s an effective rate that businesses are willing to pay on the current debt that they have accrued. The cost of debt is a measurement of the before or after tax returns. Considering the case that individuals can deduct the interest‚ makes the tax after cost more popular than the before tax. A business
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Medical Costs and the Impact on Us Professor Robert Hudson from the London School of Economics define the indifference curve as a graph showing different bundles of goods between which a consumer is indifferent. That is‚ at each point on the curve‚ the consumer has no preference for one bundle over another. One can equivalently refer to each point on the indifference curve as rendering the same level of utility (satisfaction) for the consumer. Utility is then a device to represent preferences
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Cost leadership Strategy Strategy used by businesses to create a low cost of operation within their niche. The use of this strategy is primarily to gain an advantage over competitors by reducing operation costs below that of others in the same industry. For example‚ The Swedish furniture retailer Ikea revolutionized the furniture industry by offering cheap but stylish furniture. Ikea is able to keep its prices low by sourcing its products in low-wage countries and by offering a very basic level
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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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2-22 Variable costs and fixed costs. Consolidated Minerals (CM) owns the rights to extract minerals from beach sands on Fraser Island. CM has costs in three areas: a. Payment to a mining subcontractor who charges $80 per ton of beach sand mined and returned to the beach (after being processed on the mainland to extract three minerals: ilmenite‚ rutile‚ and zircon). b. Payment of a government mining and environmental tax of $50 per ton of beach sand mined. c. Payment to a barge operator. This
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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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