GIBSON INSURANCE COMPANY Activity-Based Costing; Allocating Corporate Costs DATE OCT 22‚ 2012 CASE ANALYSIS Gibson Insurance Company sells two types of financial products: annuities and life insurance‚ all sales are done by in-house agents. The annuities are tax deferred investments that offer scheduled payout options and lump sums to their investors. The life insurance policies pay benefits to the designated beneficiaries in the event the policyholder passes away. At the end of
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Critically discuss to what extent Porter’s Diamond is a useful concept in explaining home and host location strategies of international business? Illustrate your answer with reference to at least two case companies. The main aim of International business is to build and sustain competitiveness for economic value creation in both domestic and overseas markets (Besanko et al. 2007). Internalization business theory however has a variety of models that can identify the environmental analysis of specific
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Introduction What Is A Budget? "A budget is a plan." More specifically‚ a budget is a plan of action matched by resources required to implement the plan. Budgets generally divide between two broad categories: the operating budget‚ sometimes known as the "expense" budget and the capital budget. Budget in simple word means a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose. Budget is there in everyone’s life‚ it may be a small or a big one. Budget is a tool which helps in controlling and planning the
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Hogle Company – Job Order Costing Example Hogle Company is a manufacturing firm that uses job-order costing. On January 1‚ the beginning of its fiscal year‚ the company’s inventory balances were as follows: Raw materials $20‚000 Work in process 15‚000 Finished goods 30‚000 Prepaid Insurance 10‚000 The company applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours worked. For the current year‚ the company estimated that it would work 75‚000 machine hours and incur $450
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Literature Review A literature review • Provides an overview and a critical evaluation of a body of literature relating to a research topic or research problem. • Analyzes a body of literature in order to classify it by themes or categories‚ rather than simply discussing individual works one after another. • Presents the research and ideas of the field rather than each individual work or author by itself. A literature review often forms part of a larger research project‚ such as within
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Colin Drury‚ Management and Cost Accounting - Dumbellow Ltd Dumbellow Ltd Stan Brignall‚ Aston Business School The Board of Dumbellow Ltd are meeting on the 23rd January to discuss the draft budget for 2000/1‚ some two months before the start of that year. The company produces three industrial valves which are incorporated into equipment used in the Oil and Gas industry. The draft income statement is as follows: Product X £k Sales 100k units at £15 80k units at £25 120k units at £10 Materials
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MAC II Dakota Office Products Q1) Why was Dakota’s existing pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? The existing policies being followed by Dakota regarding Accounts receivables are a major issue‚ which is affecting its payment of working capital line of credit (@10%). Customer A pays its bill within 30 days‚ whereas B takes up 90 days or more. Dakota can achieve sufficient liquidity‚ if it tightens its credit policy. | | | | | 2) Develop an activity
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Chapter 1. 5. What does the statement “costs can be assets or expenses” mean? 6. Why are the salaries of production workers accumulated in an inventory account instead of being expensed on the income statement? 7. How do product costs affect the financial statements? How does the classification of product cost (as an asset vs. an expense) affect net income? ATC 1-1 | Business Applications Case | Financial versus managerial accounting | The following information was taken from the 2008
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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 of ABC and ABCM principles in a budgetary control setting" (Williamson 1996). ABB is based on products planning to produce and sales that haven’t finished. It is activities that bring out costs and is products that create demands
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Chapter 2 Job Order Costing Learning Objectives After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: [1] Explain the characteristics and purposes of cost accounting. [2] Describe the flow of costs in a job order cost system. [3] Explain the nature and importance of a job cost sheet. [4] Indicate how the predetermined overhead rate is determined and used. [5] Prepare entries for jobs completed and sold. [6] Distinguish between under- and overapplied manufacturing overhead. 2-1 Preview of Chapter
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