Activity-Based Costing in Banking Jessica Phinney ACC522: Budgeting and Cost Accounting Professor Guenther April 15‚ 2013 Activity-based costing (“ABC”) is considered one of the best and most popular tools for allocating costs by identifying individual activities as cost objects. Originally‚ activity-based costing was mainly used in manufacturing industries but‚ due to its preciseness‚ this system has recently grown popular in the service industries as well‚ including banking
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I. Food Manufacturing Industry in Philippines Food manufacturing‚ which includes food and beverage processing‚ remains the Philippines most dominant primary industry. The industry is worth a gross added value of more than $2 billion and grew by 3.2 percent. The Philippines Bureau of Food and Drugs Statistical Report of Establishments lists a total number of 11601 food processing establishments nationwide. Most of the companies are owned by a single proprietor that is common among micro‚ cottage
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profits reported under variable and absorption costing differ? How can we reconcile the profits reported under the two approaches? Profits reported under variable and absorption costing will differ when inventory increases or decreases during the year. The difference involves the timing with which fixed manufacturing overhead becomes an expense. Under variable costing‚ fixed overhead is expensed immediately as it is incurred. Under absorption costing‚ fixed overhead is inventoried until the manufactured
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standard costs in a departmentalized factory. Distinguish between actual and applied factory overhead. Standard Costing •The purpose of standard cost accounting is to control costs and promote efficiency. •It is not another accounting method for accumulating manufacturing costs‚ but is used in conjunction with such methods as job order‚ process‚ or backflush costing. •Standard costing is based on predetermination of what it should cost to manufacture a product‚ and the inventory accounts are debited
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Case Study – Activity – Based Management in Shell Gabon Case Requirements 1. SG TOTAL UOC per barrel = $140‚640‚200/(120‚000 barrels/day * 365 days/year) = $3.21/barrel Barrels of oil produced is a cost driver for some of the activities in RDS‚ but not all are driven by production of oil. UOC = Total Operating Expense (OPEX) excluding exploration‚ depreciation‚ and depletion therefore there are other activities like exploration‚ new capital equipment for exploration‚ research and development
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KAIZEN COSTING FOR A RESTAURANT ABSTRACT Kaizen is a Japanese term for “continuous improvement” or “continual improvement”. A philosophy that involves making the work environment more efficient and effective. Kaizen aims to eliminate waste such as “activities that adds cost but does not add value”. It also means “to take it apart and put it back together in a better way”. This is then followed by standardization of this ‘better way’ with others‚ through standardized work. The key objectives
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Process costing is used for homogenous products (continuous flow processes such as producing cans of soda). Job-order costing is used in situations where the organization offers many different products or services‚ such as in furniture manufacturing‚ hospitals‚ and legal firms. Process costing is used where units of product are homogeneous‚ such as in flour milling or cement production. The purpose of a job order cost accounting system is to assign and accumulate costs for each job‚ i.e
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Costing Methods Paper Nikkei Crowder Acc/561 Ena Wu January 30‚ 2012 Costing Methods Paper Former Steelers’ running back Franco Harris created Super Bakery Inc.‚ in 1990. “Super Bakery is a virtual corporation‚ in which only the core‚ strategic functions of the business are performed inside the company. The remaining activities—selling‚ manufacturing‚ warehousing‚ and shipping—are outsourced to a network of external companies”. When management suspected that the established
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Future Earnings Management Activities at Maynard Manufacturing Company (Page 54) Examples | GAAP-based | Latitude by GAAP | Fraud? | 1 | Yes | Yes (Gray Area) | No | 2 | Yes | Yes (Gray Area) | No | 3 | Yes | Yes (Black Area) | No | 4 | Yes | Yes (White Area) | No | 5 | Yes | Yes (Gray Area) | No | 6 | Yes | Yes (Black Area) | No | 7 | Yes | Yes (Black Area) | Yes | 8 | Yes | Yes (White Area) | No | 9 | No | Black Area | Yes | 10 | Yes | Yes (White Area) | No | 11 | Yes |
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Generally‚ they are unsure of the strategic benefits a senior management accountant would bring and particularly they have concerns with which costs are most relevant to decision making and of any methods by which they can accurately cost their activities. You are required to produce a report to the directors which addresses the following three questions: Question 1: What are the key roles which a strategic management accountant would undertake in an organisation such as Jessup? Question
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