CASE ANALYSIS ABC STEEL COMPANY (for Human Behavior in Organization) VIEWPOINT: a) Mr. Robert Cruz‚ newly appointed Shop Manager of ABC Steel Company. The company had placed Mr. Robert in charge of all shop operations; OR b) Top Management TIME CONTEXT: At present I. PROBLEM STATEMENT: How can ABC Steel Company avoid delays in the production and delivery of the products to the customer? II. STATEMENT OF THE OBJECTIVE To strictly comply with the stated delivery schedule requirement
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Int. J. Production Economics 63 (2000) 1}17 A comparative analysis of utilizing activity-based costing and the theory of constraints for making product-mix decisions Robert Kee*‚ Charles Schmidt University of Alabama‚ Culverhouse School of Accountancy‚ Tuscaloosa‚ AL 35487-0220‚ USA Received 3 July 1997; accepted 6 September 1998 Abstract Activity-based costing (ABC) and the theory of constraints (TOC) represent alternative paradigms for evaluating the economic consequences of production-related
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Historical Development of Marginal Costing Marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced has an increment by unit. That is‚ it is the cost of producing one more unit of a good. In general terms‚ marginal cost at each level of production includes any additional costs required to produce the next unit. The concept of marginal utility grew out of attempts by economists to explain the determination of price. The term “marginal utility”‚ credited to the Austrian
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Process Costing Characteristics of Process Manufacturing • Since each product within a product line passing through the processes would receive similar ‘‘doses’’ of materials‚ labor‚ and overhead‚ costs are accumulated by process. • Process costing works well whenever relatively homogeneous products pass through a series of processes and receive similar amounts of manufacturing costs Units are homogeneous and subjected to the same operations for a given process and each unit produced in a
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Accounting‚ Organizations and Society 33 (2008) 1–19 www.elsevier.com/locate/aos The role of manufacturing practices in mediating the impact of activity-based costing on plant performance Rajiv D. Banker a‚ Indranil R. Bardhan b b‚* ‚ Tai-Yuan Chen c a Fox School of Business‚ Temple University‚ 1810 N. 13th Street‚ Philadelphia‚ PA 19122‚ USA The University of Texas at Dallas‚ School of Management‚ SM 41‚ 2601 N. Floyd Road‚ Richardson
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Executive Summary PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational food‚ snack‚ and beverage corporation that divided its products into five categories: Pepsi-Cola‚ Frito-Lay‚ Tropicana‚ Quaker‚ and Gatorade‚ and each category have plenty of brands. In fact‚ according to PepsiCo’s official website‚ PepsiCo leads food and beverage leader portfolio that includes 22 brands. The company reported sales of $510 million and has 19‚000 employees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo). Moreover‚ the company employed
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PepsiCo’s corporate strategy? Briefly identify the business strategies that PepsiCo is using in each of its consumer business segments in 2008. PepsiCo’s corporate strategy had diversified‚ in 2008‚ the company into salty and sweet snacks‚ soft drinks‚ orange juice‚ bottled water‚ and ready-to-eat drink teas and coffees‚ purified and functional waters‚ isotonic beverages‚ hot and ready-to-eat breakfast cereals‚ grain-based products‚ and breakfast condiments. Strategies that kept their brands at
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PROJECT REPORT FOR BUSINESS STRATEGY-1 EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS STRATEGIES AT PEPSICO Submitted to: Submitted By: Prof. Sanjany Sharan Prashant Sharma Parul Kapoor Mohit Madan Prerna Gupta Murali Krishna (Section-A) (Group – 10) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We take this opportunity to express our gratitude towards Mr. Sanjay Sharan‚ Department of Marketing‚ IBS‚ Hyderabad. We are indebted to him for the expertise and invaluable
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Contract closing a method of costing large projects‚ where the contracted work will run over several accounting periods Every organisation will have its own costing system with characteristics which are unique to that particular system. However‚ although each system might be different‚ the basic costing method used by the organisation is likely to depend on the type of activity that the organisation is engaged in. The costing system would have the same basic characteristics as the systems
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------------------------------------------------- Case Details: | ------------------------------------------------- | Case Code | : | BECG122 | | Case Length | : | 17 Pages | | Period | : | 2006-2011 | | Organization | : | PepsiCo | | Pub Date | : | 2012 | | Teaching Note | : | Available | | Countries | : | Global | | Industry | : | Food and Beverages | | * This case was a Runner-up in the 2012 oikos Global Case Writing Competition (Corporate Sustainability track)‚ organized
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