Key Learning Points: Money Measurement Concept - Only that information that are expressed in monetary terms are being recorded. Entity Concept - A unit‚ which controls & prepares reports that is related to money or accounting reports. Costs A.) Nonmonetary Assets- Cash value not fixed by contract; Ex. Land. B.) Monetary Assets- Cash value is fixed by contract. Ex. money Fair Value - An amount at which the asset could be exchanged in a present transaction between agreed parties. A.) Liabilities-
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How significant is the concept of time as a way that we classify society? Explain some different cultural notions of time. The concept of time is not universally defined; it is a socially constructed entity‚ as different cultures in the world interpret time in different ways. So‚ do we share time? We all live in the present‚ but do all cultures in the world view the past and the future as holding the same level of importance? In a globalised world it is easy to synchronize clocks‚ but is synchronizing
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Summary paper Callioni et al. (2005) Inventory driven costs (IDC) This case considers the firm HP‚ which is active in the PC industry. This example deals with an industry‚ which is highly dynamic‚ short product life cycles‚ high completion‚ low margins Mismatching of demand and supply could lead to excess inventory. The most traditional inventory cost item is: holding cost of inventory‚ which covers both capital cost of money and physical costs of having inventory (warehouse space‚ storage taxes
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Just in Time Inventory System Just in Time (JIT) manufacturing is a production and inventory control system in which materials are purchased and units are produced only as needed to meet actual customer demand (Steyn‚ 2010). The basic principle of JIT is that every component needed in the manufacturing system arrives just in time for it to be used. Stock holding facilities are not required with this system because the needed products arrive when needed. Automobile industries‚ like Toyota Motor
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of Robert Ocampo‚ the inventory manager of Mabuhay Products Incorporated. Case of Context_______________________ Mabuhay Company Incorporated owns 50 grocery outlets scattered around the metro but has only one main warehouse where all the goods are stored prior to delivery. The current inventory policy of the company had been practiced for the past 15 years. It mandates the monthly reorder of stocks by the main warehouse‚ and charging the branches with the delivery cost and a 3% financing charge
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The “value of time” according to transport economics refers to the opportunity cost of the time that voyager spend on their journey. In other words‚ it is the amount that a traveler would be willing to pay in order to save time‚ or the amount they would accept as compensation for lost time. It’s a known fact that one of the main reasons behind the transport improvements is the amount of time that travelers can save. Using a set of values of time‚ the economic benefits of a transport project can be
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VALUE FOR MONEY It could be defined as a concept that evaluates the use of resources at the disposal of an organization with the view to ensuring that the resources have been properly utilized. VFM frequently makes extensive use of performance indicators in the form of ratios and other statistics to sign post VFM through trends over time‚ in comparison to two operating units etc. Under this concept‚ we have three test ways to know if the firms resources have been properly utilized and it includes;
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ASSIGNMENT 1 : BASIC COST CONCEPT NAME : MATRICS NUMBER : ANSWER Q1 : Product cost is a cost related to the goods that were purchased in order to produce the certain product. Product cost is important to value the inventory of manufactured goods until the goods are sold. The cost of manufactured inventory are product cost. All cost incurred in manufacturing finished goods are stored in inventory until the product are sold. The product cost of the inventory sold become cost of goods sold
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COST CONCEPTS AND COST ACCOUNTING By: Aman Jawahar Sarika Deepak Muneer CONTENTS Concept of Cost Cost Accounting Terms in Cost Accounting Elements of Cost Meaning of Overheads Classification of Costs Methods of Costing Types of Costing MEANING: Cost Concept: The term ‘cost’ means the amount of expenses [actual or notional] incurred on or attributable to specified thing or activity. Cost means ‘the price paid for something’. Cost Accounting: Cost Accounting is concerned with recording
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understand by Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI)? Answer : Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material‚ usually at the buyer’s consumption location (usually a store). A third-party logistics provider can also be involved to make sure that the buyer has the required level of inventory by adjusting the demand
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