Todd Schueler Week 2 Assignment 1: Wilkerson Company Case Analysis Questions 3, 4, and 6 Saturday, April 05, 2014 3.) The estimated product costs for valves, pumps, and flow controllers using ABC for overhead activities (primarily Ex. 1 & 4) and direct cost data from the Exhibits are: * The Valves total product variable costs are $195,000, the Valves total fixed costs are $149,990.31 and the Activity Based Costing Valve cost per unit it $46. * The Pumps total product variable
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James Whittle Salem Telephone Company Case Study 9/29/2014 1.) The variable costs in Exhibit 2 are Power and Hourly Personnel Wages as the costs fluctuate from month to month and are driven by the revenue hours for the company. The fixed costs in Exhibit 2 are Rent, Custodial Services, Computer Equipment Leases, Computer Maintenance, Computer Depreciation, Office Equipment and Fixtures Depreciation, Salaried Staff Wages, Systems Development and Maintenance, Administrative Wages, Sales Wages
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Accounting Equation Paper The accounting equation is quite simply expressed as: Assets = Liabilities + Shareholder Equity or the accounting equation can also appear as the following: Liabilities = Assets – Shareholder Equity and also Shareholder Equity = Assets – Liabilities. The common theme is balance, no matter how the accounting equation is written it must reflect the total number of company assets are equal to the total number of liabilities the company has and those numbers are equal to
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questioned the company’s accounting. According the Diamond Foods Inc, they conducted an internal investigation and ultimately restated its finances for the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years. The restated numbers showed the stock price per shared dropped from $90 a share to $13 a share. The fraud also had a negative impact on acquiring the Pringles snack brand. Diamond fired Mendes and Neil in early 2012 and restated its earnings after an internal probe concluded that the accounting was improper. (Hamilton
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Section 1, Group 11 Group Members: Alex Schaefer, Shilpa Sitaram and Tushar Bhandari Assignment #1: Wilkerson Company Case 1) The existing cost system allocates overhead based on each product’s proportion of direct labor costs. The rate per unit of direct labor cost is 300% for all product groups. This results in the following cost breakdowns: 2) When you use an activity based cost model the allocations are as follows: Product Profitablity analysis | | | | | Valves | Pumps | Flow
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COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION A (Chapters 1 - 4) Problem A - I — Multiple Choice (20 points) Circle the one best answer. 1. Cost of goods manufactured during a period is obtained by taking the total manufacturing costs incurred during the period and adding and subtracting the following inventories: Adding Subtracting a. Beginning finished goods inventory Ending finished goods inventory b. Beginning work in process inventory Ending finished goods inventory c. Beginning raw materials
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เรียงเรียงโดย ศูนย์การลดต้นทุน Cost Reduction Center บทสรุป เอกสารฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ในการศึกษาต้นทุนโลจิสติกส์ของบริษัทกาวอุตสาหกรรม โดยมีการนำระบบต้นทุนฐานกิจกรรม (Activity-based Costing) เข้ามาเป็นเครื่องมือในการวิเคราะห์ต้นทุน โลจิสติกส์ของบริษัทกรณีศึกษา ในการศึกษาวิจัยครั้งนี้ ผู้วิจัยได้เก็บข้อมูลต้นทุนเบื้องต้นในทุกแผนกที่เกี่ยวข้องกับกิจกรรมโลจิสติกส์ รวมไปถึงสัมภาษณ์เจ้าหน้าที่เกี่ยวข้อง จากนั้นจึงนำข้อมูลที่ได้มาทำการวิเคราะห์ต้นทุน และทำการคำนวณต้นทุนทรัพยากรทั้งหมดที่ใช้ไปในทุกกิจกรรม
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from the dot com bubble collapse, and the onset of the economic recession. This major loss in revenue, current market conditions, and a large amount of liabilities from all the companies they had been acquiring led WorldCom to their involvement in accounting fraud. 2. What is the boundary between earnings smoothing or earning management and fraudulent reporting? The boundary between income smoothing and fraudulent reporting seems to be more of a blurred line than a distinct one. Both actions
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Materials Materials are the principle component in production and transform into finished goods. The basic substances used in the process of production and from which a product is made are termed as materials. The term material is fairly comprehensive. It in includes not merely raw materials but work-in-process or semi finished goods, finished goods and consumable stores also because they may use to the process of production. Types of Materials Direct Materials: Materials that became a
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* What is mental accounting and how does it impact consumer decision making? Mental accounting is an economic term penned by Richard Thaler that describes how people code, categorize , and evaluate economic outcomes. The result is that consumers place their money into mental buckets based on how they got it (i.e. work, lottery winnings, or other windfalls) and the intent for each bucket such as current income, current wealth, and future income. According to Thaler’s theory, these assets are
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