- Assignment 8 Leadership 372 Trumpy Ultimate Office Products Successfully implementing a large system change in an organization can be very challenging. It also requires a unique set of leadership qualities to do it well. Richard Kelley‚ the newly hired Director of Information Systems for Ultimate Office Products‚ was called to this challenge. Richard needed to replace the obsolete order processing system company-wide to improve their customer service and deliver products more quickly. This
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cost determination for individual customers - wrong cost determination for new services provided by DOP (to small charges for the “desktop” delivery‚ then the actual cost of it) 2. Develop an activity-base cost system for Dakota Office Products based on Year 200 data. Calculate the activity cost-driver rate for each DOP activity in 2000. Activity cost-driver rates: Activity One: process cartons in and out of the facility Rate=(90% of Warehouse Personnel Expense + Cost o Items
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assigned and allocated to products and services delivered to clients. This system has proven beneficial for companies where production operations are high labor intensive and overhead costs are smaller part of total costs. Nowadays‚ when automation and technology are ubiquitous overhead costs make up much higher percentage and are often lumped together with direct labor costs. An ABC approach would be much more appropriate for the DOP’s business as it will calculate costs of products and services based
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Description In ACC 301‚ you discussed the Dakota Office Products (DOP) case and were asked to design the ABC system. For this assignment in BCOM 250‚ you will take what you learned in ACC 301 and write a report recommending that DOP use activity-based costing to determine its pricing to customers. You do not need to go into deep detail about how you would design the ABC system. You will work with a team of 4-5 people to produce this deliverable. Assume that your group is part of the accounting staff
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Case: Allied Office Products Company A costs Allied less money to service‚ they are also a much smaller source of potential growth for the company. Company B on the other hand utilizes far more services and has the potential to earn Allied much greater revenue. With the information we have from the new ABC costing scheme we now know that Allied should be charging far more for the services rendered to company B‚ and less for the services used by company A. Current information shows that company
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Question 1 Activity Based Service Cost for the TFC business Activity | Total Activity Cost (’000) | Activity Driver | Usage | Actual Cost | Storage | $ 1‚550 | Number of Cartons | 350‚000 | $ 4.43 | Requisition Handling | $ 1‚801 | Number of Requisition | 310‚000 | $ 5.81 | Basic Warehouse stock selection | $ 761 | Number of Requisition × 2.5 lines | 775‚000 | $
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Case: Allied Office Products Company A costs Allied less money to service‚ they are also a much smaller source of potential growth for the company. Company B on the other hand utilizes far more services and has the potential to earn Allied much greater revenue. With the information we have from the new ABC costing scheme we now know that Allied should be charging far more for the services rendered to company B‚ and less for the services used by company A. Current information shows that company B
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Allied Office Products Case Objective: This case provides practice in Activity-Based- Analysis (ABC) calculations for a service company. It also highlights the important considerations in moving from ABC to Activity-Based Management (ABM) and further into Strategic Cost Management (SCM) so as to influence customer behavior and profitability. Q1. Using the information in Exhibit 2 calculate ABC based service costs for the TFC distribution/warehouse services. These are some broad steps that
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1 Dakota current allocates warehousing‚ distribution and order entry cost equally to each customer. DOP’s pricing system is generally independent of the specific level of service provided for customers. They just chose a single cost drive. However‚ it’s not believable and proper to use this simple method to analyze costs when costs are more complex. So we need to use activity-based cost system to chose different cost drives and allocate costs based on the activity. 2 We identify four different activities
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Office Dakota Products Case Analysis Course: BUSA 5061 Managerial Accounting Students Name: Teresa Willette Professors Name: Dr. Conner/Dr. Pollard Date 3/20/2011 Executive Summary The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In the analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate
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