Explain the following: (a) Financial accounting Is concerned with the provision of information to external parties outside the organization and also concerned with the classification and recording of financial transaction in monetary terms in accordance with the established concepts‚ principles‚ accounting standards and legal requirements and presents the effects of the transactions on the performance and financial position of the business. (b) Cost accounting Is concerned with the ascertainment
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and whether to expand or close manufacturing facilities. 11 Decision Making and Relevant Information C h a p t e r Working Working with managers to make decisions is one of the main functions of the management accountant and an important thrust of this book. The use of accounting information for decision making has been a consistent theme in earlier chapters. In this chapter‚ we focus on specific and common decisions such as accepting or rejecting a one-time-only special order‚ insourcing
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Bibliography: * Fundamentals of Cost and Management Accounting. Niemand‚ AA et al. 5th Edition. LexisNexis Butterworth‚ Durban 2004. * Advanced Cost Accounting. Directorate of Distance Education. Maharshi Dayanand University. 2004. * Managerial Finance. 2nd Edition. 2002. * ACCA Study Texts and Handouts. Kaplan Business Analysis. 2008 – 2010. * The
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Table of contents Introduction 2 Discussion 2 Costing method & purpose of variance analysis 2 Key findings 3 Material price variance 3 Material usage variance 3 Labour rate variance 4 Labour efficiency variance 5 Variable overhead variance 5 Fixed overhead expenditure variance 6 Fixed overhead volume variance 6 Variable selling and distribution variance 6 Sales variance 7 Responding to publicity 7 Conclusion 8 Appendix 1: Key findings of variance analysis 9 Appendix
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Managing Virtual Team in Projects University: Athabasca University Abstract Due to advanced communication technologies‚ globalization and outsourcing most of the project management teams are based on groups of individuals called virtual teams who work across time and space using communication technologies. Members of virtual teams may be employees of same company from same country‚ or they can be contractors‚ suppliers and company employees around the globe. Managing
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Management Accounting ACC107 Individual Assignment Asma Moosa 30624 Diploma In Business Sem 4 c) Overhead absorption rate= OAR/ ORR Smoothing= 12663.5/10000 = $1.27 Shaping = 31362.5/25000 = $ 1.25 Fixing = 20471.75/5000 = $ 4.09 Question 2 a)Total Selling Overheads Variable selling overhead= 6000*18.75 =112500 Fixed selling overhead = 100000 Total selling overhead = 100000+112500= 212500 b) i) Marginal Costing Revenue (200*10000) 2000000 Opening Inventory(84*2000) 168000 COST OF PRODUCTION
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Environmental management accounting is a new technique to identify environmental cost flows of a company. Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) also can defined as the identification‚ collection‚ estimation‚ analysis‚ internal reporting and use of material and energy flow information‚ environmental cost information and other cost information for both conventional and environmental decision-making within an organization (Tellus Institutes). EMA simply defines as management accounting with a focus
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to managerial accounting (n.d.) has shown that the Institute of Management Accountants describes managerial accounting supports the decision making process through planning and controlling operations. Planning primarily appears in the budgeting process and Controlling occurs when managers compare actual performance with budgeted amounts to identify differences and then act upon differences that appear to be significant. For example‚ manufacturing companies use management accounting techniques to
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MULTICULTURAL MANAGEMENT IN THE VIRTUAL PROJECT SETTING Carlos Galamba‚ University of Liverpool Introduction The Virtual Project Setting In today’s globalisation era‚ effective cross-cultural management of virtual teams is an emerging subject in international business literature and practice. Virtual teaming has a number of potential benefits; not only in terms of human resources flexibility but it can also reduce the operating costs of one organisation. On the other hand‚ the challenges
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Problem 1 A. Overhead: Department Rates Production Departments Assembly Packaging Total Overhead $216000 $50400 $720000 Direct labor hours Deluxe 10000 10000 20000 Regular 150000 10000 160000 Total DL 160000 20000 180000 Machine hours Deluxe 2000 8000 10000 Regular 8000 72000 80000 Total machine
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