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    between principles-based accounting and rules-based accounting? Almost all companies are required to prepare their financial statements as set out by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)‚ whose standards are generally principles-based. Recently‚ there has been much debate on whether principle-based accounting would be more efficient than the popular rules-based accounting - especially in response to accounting scandals‚ such as Enron and Worldcom‚ the current way of accounting has been under

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    compare it with traditional budget method‚ so that it could give us a general survey about the characters and benefits ABB has. What is Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) Definition of ABB Brimson says ABB is a managing process that based on the activity level‚ in order to get lasting improvement on cost and operation (Brimson 1991). It presents a budget in terms of the cost of a company’s products and services (NDMA 2006). Background of ABB ABB‚ evolved from ABC (Activity-Based Costing)‚ is the "application

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    MODULE 1 Management Accounting Module 1 Management Accounting Objectives Aim To provide an understanding of the nature of management accounting and its role in the process of managing and controlling the enterprise. Key Concepts ▪ Management accountingManagement control ▪ Decision making Learning Outcomes By the end of this section you should be able to understand: ▪ The purpose of management accounting ▪ The concepts and processes of control. The

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    Question 1: Sassu is online based accounting software which enables users to remotely access their business transactions from anyplace they want. All one is in need to be wired to the internet and login to their sassu account and start inputting or manipulating their business transactions (“What is Cloud Accounting‚” n.d.‚ parra. 1). Sassu is a market leader in the Asia Pacific software as a Service Accounting industry‚ thriving with millions of transaction worth billions of dollars with a reach

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    INTERNATIONAL B-SCHOOL SUBJECT: FINANCIAL & COST ACCOUNTING Total Marks: 80 N.B.: 1)Allquestionsarecompulsory 2) All questions carry equal marks. Q1) ABC Ltd. Produces room coolers. The company is considering whether it should continue to manufacture air circulating fans itself or purchase them from outside. Its annual requirement is 25000 units. An outsider vendor is prepared to supply fans for Rs 285 each. In addition‚ ABC Ltd will have to incur costs of Rs 1.50 per unit for freight and Rs 10‚000

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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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    CHAPTER 6 Joint Product and By-Product Costing LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Identify the characteristics of the joint production process. 2. Allocate joint product costs according to the benefits-received approaches and the relative market value approaches. 3. Describe methods of accounting for by-products. 4. Explain why joint cost allocations may be misleading in management decision making. 5. Discuss why joint production is seldom found in

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    help you get familiar with the numbers. Pay particular attention to question 6. 1. The overhead allocation rate used in the 1987 model year strategy study at the Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant (ACF) was 435% of direct labor dollar cost. Calculate the overhead allocation rate using the 1987 model year budget. Calculate the overhead allocation rate for each of the model years 1988 through 1990. Are the changes since

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    a I/A Accounting Management Accounting 1. Management accounting – Its nature‚ purposes‚ place in general accounting theory‚ role in general and strategic decision making process of management‚ comparisons with other areas of accounting 2. Definitions of costcost classification‚ cost behaviour 3. Costing issues – Cost accumulation; cost allocation‚ apportionment‚ absorption; overheads‚ overhead absorption rates‚ under and over-recovery of overheads‚ normal and actual costing 4. Absorption

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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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