demand to improve levels of service in cost‚ quality‚ reliability‚ delivery and the choice of new products; and the emergence of e-business and so on. As a result of the defects of traditional accounting have been unable to meet these changes new management themes have evolved which in turn has resulted in the development of strategic management accounting. Strategic management accounting aims to provide relevant information to an organization’s management to enable them to make strategic plans
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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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COST ACCOUNTING-MMS FORMAT OF COST SHEET Opening stock of Raw Material XX Add: Raw material purchased XX Less: Closing Stock of Raw Material XX Raw Material Consumed ZZ Direct Labor XX Direct Expenses. XX PRIME COST ZZ Add: Factory Overheads: Indirect Material XX Indirect Labor XX Indirect Expenses XX GROSS WORKS COST/FACTORY COST ZZ Add: Opening WIP XX Less: Closing WIP XX COST OF GOODS MANUFACTURED
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2 Company Operations Tutorial Solutions Chapter 3 Company operations Review Questions 11. When do dividends become a legal debt of the company? When are they to be recognised as liabilities? Where a company has a constitution that provides for directors to declare a dividend‚ then a dividend becomes a debt of the company once the dividend is declared. Where no such statement exists in a company’s constitution‚ then the debt will only arise when the time for payment of the dividend arrives. However
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this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0951-3574.htm AAAJ 21‚2 Strategic management accounting: how far have we come in 25 years? Kim Langfield-Smith Monash University‚ Melbourne‚ Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the origins of strategic management accounting and to assess the extent of adoption and “success” of strategic management accounting (SMA). Design/methodology/approach – Empirical papers which have directly researched SMA
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Activity-Based Budgeting: Creating a Nexus between Workload and Costs By Jon M. Shane INTRODUCTION At some point in an executive’s career they will be required to develop a budget for something. Indeed it is a prime responsibility. A budget is merely a plan described in financial terms. Knowing which budget plan to choose is a matter of what needs to be conveyed. There are many different budget styles‚ each with a different purpose. For example‚ the most common government budget is the line-item
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Matthew Ponzurick Accounting 305-001 Spring 2013 Chapter 21 Summary Leasing Environment Many companies these days choose to lease buildings or certain structures rather than owning them because there is more money involved in leasing a property. In 2010 521 billion dollars were made through leasing properties. The question to answer is what type of equipment may be leased‚ and the answer is any type of equipment is allowed to be leased. For example; railcars‚ helicopters‚ bulldozers‚ barges
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Intermediate Accounting Review Exam 3 Chapter 4 Statement of Cash Flows (SCF): is an essential component within the set of basic financial statements. Is presented for each period for which results of operations are provided. Operating Activities: inflows and outflows of cash related to the transactions entering into the determination of net operating income. Cash inflows include cash received from: 1. Customers from the sale of goods or services. Ex./ collection of cash from customers
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What was the Kanthal president‚ Ridderstrale‚ attempting to accomplish with the Account Management System? Are these sensible goals? Why or why not? The motivation for Carl-Erik Ridderstrale‚ president of Kanthal‚ to develop an Account Management System was to find a process of determining the profitability of individual customer orders. An accurate account measurement system was needed in order to achieve a strategy for increasing growth and profitability without adding a significant amount of sales
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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
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