Services Costing Solution Value Driver: Helps in identifying correct adoption of costing method which facilitates a transparent cost chargeback to Business Units (recipient of shared services) with granular insight of the cost constituents. Introduction: In today’s highly cost conscious environment‚ enterprise wide cost savings can be achieved by consolidating common work and infrastructure by using Shared Services units. But Business units often complain that Shared Services end up costing more
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Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a methodology that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. By using ABC to assign the overhead costs to each activity‚ the following steps should be followed: 1. Identify and define activities using interviews and surveys. Then build a list of activities. • Activity name-usually consists of an action verb and an object.
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AN IDEAL APPROACH TO STANDARD COSTING By Jitesh Chandak INTRODUCTION Before you start your study on standard costing you must be clear in your mind that you are going to study a chapter which wants more practice and hard work to develop a strong and sound concept. Costing can be defined as “The technique and process of ascertaining costs.” Standard costing is a technique‚ which uses standards for cost and revenue for the purpose of control through
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1a) Activity based costing is a relatively new type of procedure that can be used as an inventory valuation method. The technique was developed to provide more accurate product costs. This improved accuracy is accomplished by tracing costs to products through activities. In other words‚ costs are traced to activities (activity costing) and then these costs are traced‚ in a second stage‚ to the products that use the activities. Another way to express the idea is to say that activities consume resources
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of this report is to identify whether a relationship exists between macroeconomic variables and stock exchange returns in the Pakistani capital market. The techniques of multiple linear regression will be applied to understand if there is indeed a link between the two. The time series data being analyzed is on a monthly basis and spans from January 2003 to January 2009. The indicators taken as the independent variables are manufacturing production index‚ consumer price index‚ discount rate‚ broad money
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minicomputer. The DC6900-X would sell for $ 3900‚ 3 with unit variable costs of $ 1‚800. Projections made by an independent marketing research firm indicate that the DC6900-X 4 would achieve a sales volume of 500‚000 units next year‚ in its first year of commercialization. One-half of the first year’s 5 volume would come from competitors minicomputers and market growth. However‚ a consumer research study indicates 6 that 30% of the DC6900-X sales volume would come
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Chapter 4 Activity-Based Costing 4-1 4-2 Traditional Costing and Activity-Based Costing Traditional Costing Systems Allocates overhead using a single predetermined rate. ► Job order costing: direct labor cost may be the relevant activity base. ► Process costing: machine hours may be the relevant activity base. Assumption was satisfactory when direct labor was a major portion of total manufacturing costs. ► Wide acceptance of a high correlation between
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that will change as a result of accepting the order. In this case‚ full product costs will rarely be relevant. It is more likely that full product costs will be relevant costs for long-run pricing decisions. 12-3 Two examples of pricing decisions with a short-run focus: 1. Pricing for a one-time-only special order with no long-term implications. 2. Adjusting product mix and volume in a competitive market. 12-4 Activity-based costing helps managers in pricing decisions in two ways. 1. It gives
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Identifying Dependent and Independent Variables Instructions: For each of the following research designs‚ identify the dependent and independent variables. 1. To investigate the effects of exercise on mathematical problem-solving ability‚ a researcher assigned subjects to one of two groups. One group did 50 jumping jacks and the other group did 200. After exercising‚ both groups did a set of math problems. 2. A researcher hypothesized that talking to plants enhances their growth. To test her hypothesis
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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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