Costing Methods Paper Amy Buckley University of Phoenix Bellevue Campus ACC561 April 2012 Instructor: Solomon Seyoum Costing Methods Paper Understanding and selecting the optimum method of cost accounting is vital to a company’s success and sustainability. Two types of costing methods are available: the traditional cost accounting method or the activity based cost system. Each delivers pros and cons; therefore each company may choose one or the other. The traditional method matches
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“Is Activity-Based Costing (ABC) superior to “traditional” costing in which only one overhead pool is used? Response: I believe Activity-Based Costing is superior to “traditional” costing methods. It has a better way of facilitates the delegation of the decision making for a company. It also helps the management set goals that all the mangers agree on. According to Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, “Activity-based costing (ABC) is a two-stage product costing method that assigns costs first
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information management systems, and give one logistics application for each one that you’ve named. Chapter 13: Question 2: What is activity-based costing (ABC)? What are the five steps of the ABC process? Question 17: Describe the two issues that managers face with respect to computer and data security. Chapter 14: Question 3: What are the differences between a centralized and a decentralized logistics department? Question 20: Name the seven types of comprehensive logistics systems audits that should
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problems facing Strategic Marketing Unit Two (SMU2) were: 1) the product costing system allocated cost unfairly; 2) operating profit did not reflect true performance of the unit. It was obvious that Fine Foods needs to change the cost allocating system. They could either improve the current cost system or change to a new cost allocating system. My recommendations for Find Foods are to: 1) change to activity-based system; 2) use contribution margin 1 to evaluate performance. INTRODUCTION Fine
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Managerial Decision Making, Case 2, Greetings Inc. Activity Based Costing |Case 2 | | Greetings Inc.: Activity-Based Costing | |This case is from the book: Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision | |Making, 5th Edition | |Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso | |©2010 | |And was answered by some students. | | | | | 1. Activity Based Costing benefits businesses that are more complex in nature. In this case, Greetings. INC has added a new product
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Descriptions of activity-based-costing (ABC) systems have become a standard part of managerial accounting texts. While ABC implementation issues are the focus of a number of articles, these issues are often not addressed in a typical textbook. This case is designed to familiarize you with the behavioral and technical variables that can aid or impede successful ABC implementation. Anderson's (1995) factor-stage model provides a template to organize the discussion of ABC success factors. In this case
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about time-driven activity-based costing The straight facts about traditional and time-driven costing methodologies After decades of proven success, activity-based costing (ABC) has come under fire from its earliest and most active proponents. Robert S. Kaplan and others are promoting a “new, innovative, time-driven methodology” that presumably “delivers great improvements to the older systems of 15 years ago.”1 Companies are replacing their current costing solutions to try to get strategic
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costs computed under the company’s new activity-based costing system with the unit costs computed under its traditional costing system. Printware’s traditional costing system assigned overhead costs at a rate of 240 percent of direct labor cost. Data for the Hawes order are as follows: direct materials, $17,552; purchased parts, $14,856; direct labor hours, 140; and average direct labor pay rate per hour, $17. Data for activity-based costing related to processing direct materials and purchased parts
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of Costing Plan Trident University Businesses must choose the most appropriate costing plan for their particular business by taking into account various aspects that are potentially impacted. For the cast of the Farm Financial Standards Council, certain allocations are considered in each department of the farming process in order to better manage financial aspects of the farm. Although some of these allocations may prove logical and assist in determining costing, some
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