Case 4: Dakota Office Products Summary The general manager of Dakota Office Products (DOP), John Malone was concerned about the financial results for the fiscal year 2000. The company had suffered a historic first loss in spite of sales increase from its prior year as noted in the income statement in (Exhibit 1). DOP distributes office supplies and offers a comprehensive product line. DOP had an excellent reputation for customer service and response time. It had operated
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commercial freight shipping, personal delivery of orders under the Desktop Delivery program, warehouse handling and space, and several product ordering and entry activities. In this paper, the cost drivers were utilized to establish activity-based costing for DOP. Profitability for two current DOP customers was also analyzed for behavior patterns that might lead to or suggest improved pricing. Specific assignment questions were detailed and answered on the topic of relative profitability of the two
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Chapter 8 Activity-based costing Problems with conventional product costing systems General features of conventional product costing systems Direct material and direct labour costs are traced to products Manufacturing overhead costs are allocated to products using a predetermined overhead rate Manufacturing overhead rate is calculated using some measure of production volume Non-manufacturing costs are not assigned to products
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This company was use the simple method of costing system for classic pens. All indirect costs were aggregated at factory level and allocated to products based upon the direct labour cost. At this time, the overhead rate was 300% of the direct labour cost. Before the new types of pens were introduced the overhead rate was only 200% of direct labour cost. Sales cost is allocated in proportion with sales. Product Costing Calculated with Traditional Full Costing Method. | BLUE | BLACK | RED | PURPLE
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Technical Briefing APRIL 2001 DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING STRATEGY Activity-based Management – An Overview IN THIS BRIEFING… ctivity-based management and activity-based costing (ABM/ABC) have brought about radical change in cost management systems. ABM has grown largely out of the work of the Texas-based Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing-International (CAM-I). No longer is ABM’s applicability limited to manufacturing organisations. The principles and philosophies of activity-based thinking
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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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AN ESSAY ON ACTIVITY BASED MANAGEMENT (ABM) HOW DOES 21ST CENTURY MAKES PROFIT HAPPEN? COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING :BX2012 ASSIGNMENT DONE BY: EVA LOVELIN-12765541 WILSON HOW DOES 21ST CENTURY MAKES PROFIT IT IS TRUE THAT WE AS HUMANS HAVE EVOLVED GREATLY IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE. STARTED FROM THE STONE AGE AND NOW WE HAVE MADE OUR LIVES SO MUCH BETTER AND YET THE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE, GROWTH AND TO ACHIEVE MORE IS EVER LASTING. WE JUST CANNOT GET ENOUGH AND NOTHING WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH AS
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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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as they are introduced throughout the course. LEARNING OUTCOMES Students should be able to: 1. Identify the various costs that are part of a business environment and the three elements of product cost 2. Differentiate between the different costing systems 3. Illustrate business transactions using T-account analysis 4. Prepare the statement of cost of goods manufactured and an income statement 5. Calculate the break-even point in units and dollars, and target sales in units and dollars K&J
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is inadequate regarding to following points: The current pricing system use cost-plus method, it determines the mark-ups at the start of each year, based on actual expenses in prior years, the general industry condition and competitive trends. Costs continue to rise for customers at normal circumstances which may due to various external reasons like inflations, economic situations etc. The current costing system could not cope with the highly competitive market, and the inflation will cause the
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