planning and estimating future expenditure. * It establishes a link between decision-making and cost behavior. * It encourages a critical review of processes related to activities by exposing true cost, and facilitates cost cutting. * It is likely to give a more accurate estimate of product costs especially in multi-product, diverse organizations. * It utilizes unit cost rather than just total cost. * It integrates well with Six Sigma and other continuous improvement programs. Disadvantages
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Accounting management Case Study: WINDCATCHER LTD tufitri AIT ALI Case Study: WINDCATCHER LTD QUESTION N°1: Establish the essential cost of the order and state any assumptions that you have made in calculating this figure. To calculate the total cost of the order, we have to measure direct labor cost, direct materials cost and manufacturing overhead cost related to the job order so: First step: Measuring Labor cost: The manufacturing process was divided for supervisory purposes into
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Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS 3-1 (a) Use in financial accounting: In financial accounting, product costs are needed to determine the value of inventory on the balance sheet and to compute the cost-of-goods-sold expense on the income statement. b) Use in managerial accounting: In managerial accounting, product costs are needed for planning, for cost control, and for decision making. c) Use in cost management:
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COST ACCOUNTING VS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING http://www.tutorialspoint.com/accounting_basics/cost_accounting_vs_financial_accounting.htm Copyright © tutorialspoint.com Both cost accounting and financial accounting help the management formulate and control organization policies. Financial management gives an overall picture of profit or loss and costing provides detailed product-wise analysis. No doubt, the purpose of both is same; but still there is a lot of difference in financial accounting and cost
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in? o Maintenance Cost Allocation and Quality Concerns: Managers are complaining that they are being overcharged by the in-house maintenance group for poorly-performed, nonroutine jobs. • After doing the SWOT in Appendix A, list by scope area the key problems and/or concerns. (These problems will be placed in Part I of the formal case report) o Quality of Work: ▪ Unsatisfactory Performance: Jobs have to be redone at extra cost because they are not performed
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Running head: Independent The Independent Government Cost Estimate and the Statement of Work Regina M. Grant Strayer University Overpayment, poorly written cost estimates, unreliable cost estimate, inadequate or no IGCE, and inadequate payments for goods and services contracted seems to be the theme throughout recent Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General Audits of its various VA departments’ acquisition program offices (VA OIG AUDITS 2009). These
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business accounting strategies as a way of determining the cost of manufacturing a product in relation to the revenue generated by that product. Costing systems determine the overhead of production and then allocate those overhead costs to a business’ products. There are two common methods for allocating these indirect costs to products. Both of these methods assess overhead costs and then attach these costs to products based on certain cost drivers. A cost driver is any component that costs money
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The differences in the reported cost estimates calculated under each of the two costing systems are significant. This is especially the case with regard to Job order 973. The management accountant’s calculations for the cost estimates produce the following increase/ (decrease) in reported costs: Job order 973 Job order 974 $ $ Unit cost per job under existing system 1,172·00 620·00 Unit cost per job under activity based costing
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CMA Exam Support Package Examination Essay Questions For Practice © Copyright 2010 By Institute of Certified Management Accountants Introduction The Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA) is publishing this book of practice questions with answers to help you prepare for the CMA examination. Each question is referenced to the Content Specification Outline (CSO) and the Learning Outcome Statements (LOS). These questions are actual “retired” questions from the CMA exams
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DATE: Jan 25 2015 SUBJECT: Seligram Corporation Analysis ETO’s existing cost system contains only one cost pool, which is the entire facility. All manufacturing overhead is collected into this pool, and the total overhead cost uses total number of direct labor dollars as its cost allocation base. These labor hours are consumed to give a single direct labor dollar burden rate. Failure of the Existing System: The major flaw in ETO’s existing system is that it assumes that all products consume
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