What is Just in Time (JIT)? Solution: Just in Time can be defined as an inventory strategy that is employed by an organization to increase the efficiency and also reduce the waste by receiving the goods only when they are actually required. This can help in reducing the inventory costs. This method will be most useful when the management is able to accurately forecast the demand. JIT stands for just in time‚ and this is an approach which is used in inventory valuation. It is a system which ensures
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article relevant to activity-based costing (ABC)‚ job costing‚ or process costing. Prepare a 125-word summary of the article. Briefly summarize the major topics of the article‚ and explain what you learned as a result of your reading. Be sure to properly cite the article in your summary and be prepared to present your summary to the entire class. Using activity-based costing in surgery AORN Journal‚ Jan‚ 2004 by Cheryl Grandlich Article “Using activity-based costing in surgery” covers how ABC is
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Activity based costing in manufacturing: two case studies on implementation The Authors Amrik S. Sohal‚ Department of Management‚ Monash University‚ Australia Walter W.C. Chung‚ Department of Manufacturing Engineering‚ Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the Financial Controller at MelCo and to Mr Richard Siu‚ now Deputy General Manager of Ciba Specialty Chemicals (China) Ltd. They are also thankful to the Hong Kong Government Industry
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Activity-based Costing (ABC) An activity-based approach refines a costing system by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost objects. It uses the cost of these activities as the basis for assigning costs to other cost objects such as products or services. There are four levels of a cost hierarchy: 1- Output unit-level costs: costs of activities performed on each individual unit of a product or service. 2- Batch-level costs: costs of activities related to a group of
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PROCESS COSTING DR. ALOK DIXIT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT LUCKNOW COSTING SYSTEMS USED TO DETERMINE PRODUCT COSTS Costing Systems Process Costing Job-order Costing Mass production of identical or similar products (at process-level). For example‚ Sugar‚ food‚ chemical industry. Many units of a single‚ homogeneous product flow evenly through continuous production process(s). One unit of product is indistinguishable (at process-level) from any other unit of product. Each unit
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Super Bakery‚ Inc. – Costing Methods Norman Thompson ACC/561 July 24‚ 2010 In today’s economy the business world has changed tremendously with the advances of computer systems‚ global competition‚ and innovation in technology. Because of these changes businesses compete to keep their products and services profitable as well as keeping a strong customer base. The main challenges for keeping a business successful are managing the cost of services and products while keeping the company
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Defining‚ Modeling & Costing IT Services Integrating Service Level‚ Configuration & Financial Management Processes In our cost driven economy IT is facing increasing pressure to account for and reduce cost wherever possible. The old axiom “You must do more with less” has never had such an impact on IT operations and support as it does today. Thousands of IT managers are being placed in a situation which forces them to defend their staffing levels against both internal as well as external threats
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Technical Briefing APRIL 2001 DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING STRATEGY Activity-based Management – An Overview IN THIS BRIEFING… ctivity-based management and activity-based costing (ABM/ABC) have brought about radical change in cost management systems. ABM has grown largely out of the work of the Texas-based Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing-International (CAM-I). No longer is ABM’s applicability limited to manufacturing organisations. The principles and philosophies of activity-based thinking
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1.0 Life cycle costing (LCC) 1.1 Definition Life cycle costing is a cost management approach which includes all costs and ensures that all those costs are managed over the life cycle of the product. Product life cycle begins from conception of the product until its abandonment which can be referred as ‘from cradle to grave‘. Product life cycle has four stages: 1) Product planning and initial concept design It involves process of identifying any underlying conditions‚ assumption‚ limitations and
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Product Costing Module in ERP for L&T Kansbahal Works‚ Kansbhal‚ Orissa : A Case Study 1 Seema G. Bhol‚ 2Arun Mishra & 3Srikanta Patnaik Sambalpur University‚ Burla‚ Orissa‚ India‚ 2Head (IT Services)‚ L&T‚ Kansbhal‚ Orissa‚ India‚ 3 Department of Computer Science ITER ‚ SOA University ‚ Bhubaneswar‚ Orissa‚ India E-mail : guptaseema@hotmail.com‚ arun-kbl@kbl.ltindia.com‚ patnaik_srikanta@yahoo.co.in 1 Abstract - One need to be very accurate in what the products and services are costing. Inaccurate
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