Bibliography: 1. Bellis-Jones Hill Group‚ customer case:’DHL-customer profitability in action’ (www.bellisjoneshill.com). 2. CIMA Official Terminology 2005 edition; CIMA publishing. 3. Chutchian-Ferranti‚ Joyce: Activity based Costing‚ Journal: Computerworld; (AUT database). 4. Cleland‚ Alan S :Balancing customer and shareholder value; Financial Executive 1987(AUT database) 5. Colin Drury :Management Accounting for Business (4th edition;) pages 162‚163‚164 & 202. 6. Criag Deegan/Grant
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Activity-Based Costing System A presentation by Ahmad Tariq Bhatti FCMA‚ FPA‚ MA (Economics)‚ BSc Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates Activity-Based Costing Activity-Based Costing System 2 The Concept Activity-Based Costing In contrast to traditional/absorption costing system‚ ABC system first accumulates overheads costs for each organizational activity‚ and then assigns the costs of the activities to the products‚ services‚ or customers (cost objects) causing that activity. Activity-Based Costing System
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helped me to coordinate in every problem especially in writing this report. 2 Report on the Reason of Why the Companies Should Implement ABC Rather than Traditional Cost System Executive Summary Activity-based costing provides a more accurate method of product/service costing‚ leading to more accurate pricing decisions. It increases understanding of overheads and cost drivers; and makes costly and non-value adding activities more visible‚ allowing managers to reduce or eliminate them. ABC
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Question 1: Compute the full production cost (per gallon) of the Polynesian Fantasy and Vanilla products using a) Will’s old costing method; b) The new costing method. 1 1a) Based on Will’s old costing method (Volume Based Costing): • California Creamery has a budgeted manufacturing overhead of $600‚000 and a budgeted direct labour cost of $300‚000 • Overhead rate per direct labour cost => $600‚000/$300‚000 = $2 From Exhibit 2 CALIFORNIA CREAMERY‚ INC. Two Product Examples (2004 Data) Polynesian
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Q2. Distinguish between management accounting and financial accounting. | | Financial Accounting | Management Accounting | Format: | Financial accounts are supposed to be in accordance with a specific format by IAS so that financial accounts of different organizations can be easily compared. | No specific format is designed for management accounting systems. | Planning and control: | Financial accounting helps in making investment decision‚ in credit rating. | Management Accounting helps
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Broadening Your Prospective 17-2 “Manager Perspective” ACC/561 July 9‚ 2013 Broadening Your Prospective 17-2 “Managerial Perspective” Activity Cost Pool Annual Cost Market analysis $1‚050‚000 Product design 2‚350‚000 Product development 3‚600‚000 Prototype testing 1‚400‚000 Activities Cost Drivers Estimated Drivers Market analysis Hours of analysis 15‚000 hours Product design Number of designs 2‚500 designs Product development Number of products 90
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Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) addresses internal operating concerns and is an augmentation to the traditional cost management system. It is not a replacement for traditional accounting‚ but makes use of the source documents provided from standard job costing systems. ABC looks at a business unit’s events as cost drivers and assigns all company resources and accumulated costs against those events in a time-phased sequence. Revenue tracking provides management with a different point
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benefits and limitations of using target costing and life-cycle costing systems over the costing and performance measures currently being utilised by the company. The techniques currently being used by the company are useful for keeping costs under control‚ but they do not give an indication of the maximum costs the company can allow for designing new product features or profits over the total life cycle of a product. Target costing. Target costing is a pricing method used by companies as
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Inventories management. Cost allocation‚ pricing and budgeting process. From the report‚ improvements of each firms could be discussed as well as suggestions of merging or not.Basically‚ using bugeting process‚ JIT methods‚ activity-based costing‚ absorption costing analysis to provide disadvantages and advantages in separate companies. Main Body CoolSchool is a manufacturer responsible for delivering fixed number of school uniforms for settled schools‚ they prefer to
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between Variable & Absorption Costing When it comes to managerial accounting‚ the way that information is presented can affect decision-making for a business. In a manufacturing environment‚ companies can use absorption costing or variable costing when accounting for the costs of products produced. While these methods are similar‚ they have some key differences that can impact the company. Absorption Costing * Absorption costing‚ also known as full costing is a method by which all of the
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