opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone‚ in a situation in which a choice needs to be made between several mutually exclusive alternatives given limited resources. Assuming the best choice is made‚ it is the "cost" incurred by not enjoying the benefit that would be had by taking the second best choice available.[1] The New Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen". Opportunity cost is a key
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Current Issues with Health Care Costs Truly Benton Atlanta‚ Georgia Current Issues with Health Care Costs Health care spending in the U.S. continues to soar to unsustainable levels. There are many strategies and views on ways to contain health care costs‚ while improving the efficiency and quality of health care. Hospital services‚ physician services‚ prescription drugs and technology/medical innovation and the aging population are areas that drive the high cost of health care creating an
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2-22 Variable costs and fixed costs. Consolidated Minerals (CM) owns the rights to extract minerals from beach sands on Fraser Island. CM has costs in three areas: a. Payment to a mining subcontractor who charges $80 per ton of beach sand mined and returned to the beach (after being processed on the mainland to extract three minerals: ilmenite‚ rutile‚ and zircon). b. Payment of a government mining and environmental tax of $50 per ton of beach sand mined. c. Payment to a barge operator. This
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Costs associated with two alternatives‚ code-named Q and R‚ being considered by Lang Corporation are listed below: | | Alternative Q | Alternative R | Supplies costs | $ 64‚500 | $ 64‚500 | Power costs | $ 36‚500 | $ 21‚500 | Inspection costs | $ 11‚400 | $ 26‚300 | Assembly costs | $ 38‚600 | $ 28‚000 | | Required: | a. | Which costs are relevant and which are not relevant in the choice between these two alternatives? |
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Placement Paper Held on 28th January 2010 1) APTITUDE TEST: Questions = 82 ; time limit = 90 minutes. no negative marking. Offline (paper & pen) test and a PSYCHOMETRY TEST also. Section 1: VERBAL ( 32 Questions ‚20 minutes ) Directions for questions 1-10:Find the synonyms of the following words 1. Depreciation A. appreciation B. Deflation C. rise D. None of these Ans: B 2. Circumspect A Condition B Inspect C. Cautious D Reckless Ans: C 3. Abysmal A
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In my opinion chocolate chip cookies are the best cookies out there. I mean you can’t go wrong with them. Its just chocolate‚ more chocolate‚ and love all baked into one. If you don’t like chocolate chip cookies then you need to go to the hospital and get checked out for craziness. There is no other cookie like it. They are one of a kind delicious. Do you like chocolate chip cookies as much as I do? If I had a chance to change anything about chocolate chip cookies I would change nothing. Because
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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis Fourteenth Edition Charles T. Horngren Stanford University Srikant M. Datar Harvard University Madhav V. Rajan Stanford University Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montréal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Donna Battista AVP/Executive Editor: Stephanie
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LABOUR COST ACCOUNTING. It is concerned with identifying the amount of labour costs to be changed to jobs and overhead accounts. Where a manufacturing organization operates a job costing system‚ information on the labour costs should be properly captured from the following documents:- i) Job Cards: This is open for each job‚ when the job is started‚ the time of starting is entered on the job card and when it is completed‚ the completion time is also entered. The difference between the two
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product costs are the direct materials‚ and manufacturing overhead that are involved in acquiring or making products. Products costs are assigned to an inventory account on the balance sheet and considered to be assets. When the goods are sold‚ the costs are released from inventory and are recognized as expenses in the income statement. Period costs are all the costs that are not included in product cost‚ such as advertising‚ executive salaries‚ and other nonmanufacturing costs. These costs are expenses
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STANDARD COSTS Setting a budget is never easy as it involves predicting the future and therefore uncertainty. The process is not about getting the budget absolutely right; it is about not getting it too wrong. This budget process may be applied to most revenue budgets that deal with income and costs‚ but there is also a requirement to produce a capital budget that covers the purchase‚ sale and replacement of fixed assets. There is normally an investment limit dictated by funding availability and
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