Individual Assignment: Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Paper By: Stacy Munns ACC/ 491 Professor Richard Cochran Due: December 3‚ 2012 Introduction: History of Auditing It is stated that “Auditing is based on the assumption that financial statement data are verifiable.” (Boynton & Johnson‚ 2006) The real reason of auditing didn’t really come until “the advent of the Industrial Revolution‚ from 1750 to 1850‚ that auditing began its evolution into a field of fraud detection and financial
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Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ Quiz 2 1) Cost-volume-profit analysis is used primarily by management: A) as a planning tool B) for control purposes C) to prepare external financial statements D) to attain accurate financial results Answer: A Diff: 1 Terms: cost-volume-profit (CVP) Objective: 1 AACSB: Communication 2) One of the first steps to take when using CVP analysis to help make decisions is: A) finding out where the total costs line intersects
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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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ACC 307: Cost Accounting Winter 2013 Practice Problems Chapter 8 Problem 1: Different management levels in Bates‚ Inc.‚ require varying degrees of managerial accounting information. Because of the need to comply with the managers’ requests‚ four different variances for manufacturing overhead are computed each month. The information for the September overhead expenditures is as follows: Budgeted output units 3‚200 units Budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead $20‚000 Budgeted
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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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Journal of Money‚ Investment and Banking ISSN 1450-288X Issue 6 (2008) © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2008 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Costing the Banking Services: A Management Accounting Approach Jordi Carenys Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School EADA‚ c/o Aragó 204‚ 08011 Barcelona‚ Spain E-mail: jcarenys@eada.edu Tel: 934 520 844; Fax: 933 237 317 Web: www.eada.edu Xavier Sales Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School
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Chapter 4-1 Activity-Based Costing Managerial Accounting Fifth Edition Weygandt Kimmel Kieso Chapter 4-2 study objectives Chapter 4-3 1. Recognize the difference between traditional costing and activity-based costing. 2. Identify the steps in the development of an activity-based costing system. 3. Know how companies identify the activity cost pools used in activity-based costing. 4. Know how companies identify and use cost drivers in activitybased costing. 5. Understand the benefits
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Product costing systems in modern manufacturing organisations Product costing refers to the process of assigning shared direct and indirect costs to individual products‚ customers‚ branches or other cost items. (USAID‚ 2007) Product costing is also referred to as assigning costs to inventory and production based on the expenses that go into producing or buying inventory. It is an important process for manufacturers that helps improves management information on products and helps managers and the
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Based Costing can be defined as an accounting methodology that assigns costs to activities based on their use of resources‚ rather than products or services. This enables resources and other associated costs to be more accurately attributed to the products and the services which they use. It doesn’t change or eliminate any costs; it provides detailed information about how costs are consumed. (Online manager-net.com). Traditional cost accounting looks at what is spent‚ while ABC methods look at
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ENTERPRENEUR Financial Accounting - ACC 557 ENTERPRENEUR Describe the type of business you have created including: a. The product or service‚ and general staffing plan. Provide a rationale for your plan. b. The form of your business and the benefits it offers your particular business‚ Introduction We decided to initiate a Bakery with the name and style of LadyDi’s First Class Bakery‚ Our bakery will provide freshly prepared bakery and pastry products at all times during business
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