COMPARISON ON TRADITIONAL AND ACTIVITY-BASED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER TITLE PAGE LIST OF TABLES i LIST OF FIGURES ii CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Understanding of Traditional and Activity-Based Costing System 1 1.2 Company Background 3 1.3 Company History 3 1.4 Company Operation
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CASE 5-69 (60 minutes) 1. Standard Model Deluxe Model Heavy-Duty Model Product costs based on traditional, volume- based costing system $105.00 $215.00 $232.00 × 110% × 110% × 110% × 110% Target price $115.50 $236.50 $255.20 2. Product costs based on activity-based costing system: Regular Model Standard Model Deluxe Model Direct material $10.00 $ 25.00 $ 42.00 Direct labor 10.00 20.00 20.00 Machinery depreciation
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COSTING METHODS Costing methods for Super Bakery University of Phoenix ACC/561 December 19, 2011 Timothy W. Williams, Ph.D. Costing methods for Super Bakery Super Bakery is a virtual corporation created in 1990 by Franco Harris, developing a network of supply for “donuts and other baked goods aimed for the institutional food market” (Kimmel, et al, 2009, pg 867). According to Kimmel, et al (2009), “only the cores, strategic functions of the business are performed
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DBS Consulting Services, using the Activity-Based Costing system (ABC) and the conventional costing system based on computing hours. ABC provides more detailed and accurate information than the conventional costing system because ABC is based on consumption of resources by production of a product or service line and focuses on the activities that drive costs, recognising that activities consume resources. The conventional method allocates overhead costs based on hours consumed (in this case computing
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strategies they used and why management found necessary to use Activity-Based-Cost system. The opinion of this writer will explain if agrees or disagrees the implementation. This paper will recommend a costing system and will explain if it will work or not. Super Bakery is a virtual corporation which according to Kimmel, (2008), “a virtual corporation [is] one that consist of a core unit that is supported by a network of outsource activities. A virtual corporation minimizes investments in human resources
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Business Costing Technique Chosen PROCESS COSTING 1 2 2 2 Assumptions Processes of Manufacturing Beer DEPARTMENT ONE: STAGE 1 - MIXING DEPARTMENT ONE: STAGE 2 - BREWING DEPARTMENT TWO: PACKAGING 3 4 4 4 5 Process Costing DETERMINING FIGURES CALCULATING COST PER EU 6 7 8 Cost Reconciliation Recommendations CAPPING & LABELLING BOTTLES & UTILITIES TRANSPORTATION 9 10 10 11 11 Introduction of Outpatient Business Costing Technique Chosen ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC)
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CHAPTER 5: ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS 5-1 Product costs are likely distorted when a firm uses a volume-based rate if the plant has more than one activity in its operations and not all activities consume overhead in the same proportion. The more diverse the product mixes of the plant are in volume, sizes, manufacturing processes, or product complexities, the greater the cost distortions are likely to be in using a volume-based rate. Undercosting a product may appear to have increased
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Bronson Shrimp Farms 1. Budgeted cost per package – Original costing system Using the original costing system that used total direct labor hours as the indirect cost allocation base, the total projected indirect costs will be allocated by first determining the allocation rate. Since we will be producing 10,000 packages of headless shrimps at 0.01 labor hours per package, the total number of hours worked would be 10,000 x 0.01 = 100 hours. Similarly, for the 50,000 packages of peeled and deveined
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Update Product Marketing Concept & Refine Corporate Strategy - Long Term • Perform a market/competitive analysis of the US market to inform future decisions • Improve accuracy of forecasting • Consider changing product mix based on market/customer demand • Contract with additional customers to purchase the RC1 unit • Expand RC2 wholesale distribution to online channels • Invest profits into additional R&D COMPANY OVERVIEW Breeden
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content I. Introduction 4 II. Three systems to measure product costs 4 1. Variable costing: 4 2. Absorption costing: 5 3. Activity-based costing approach 7 III. Standard costing 9 1. Use of iterative operations for standard costing 9 2. Defining the standards 9 3. Purposes and advantages of standard costing and variance analysis 11 4. Limits of standard costing 12 IV. Conclusion 13 Reference list 14 Glossary 15 Appendix 1 16 Appendix 2 19 Appendix 3 21 Appendix
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