SYLLABUS FOR MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING – ACCT 5100/7100 PROFESSOR LINDA BAMBER Fall 2012 Date 8/14 Tue. Topic Introduction to Management Accounting and Professionalism Chapter and Reading Course Outline Syllabus eLC Student Orientation: http://elc.uga.edu/student_orientation /index.html Assignment Due Today 1) Hand in your ACCT 5100/7100 profile. 2) Form teams of four with no more than one MBA student per team (I will try to fill out teams of two or three). One team member should email
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Activity-Based Costing in the Service Sector: The East Penn Bank ABSTRACT: This case illustrates why a major segment of the service sector banks - needs accurate cost information to make strategic decisions‚ and how more refined accounting systems help fulfill this need. East Penn Bank is a hypothetical bank that has suffered falling profits despite a shift in customer base toward retail customers‚ which the current information system reports are more profitable than business customers. Following
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Accounting‚ Organizations and Society 33 (2008) 1–19 www.elsevier.com/locate/aos The role of manufacturing practices in mediating the impact of activity-based costing on plant performance Rajiv D. Banker a‚ Indranil R. Bardhan b b‚* ‚ Tai-Yuan Chen c a Fox School of Business‚ Temple University‚ 1810 N. 13th Street‚ Philadelphia‚ PA 19122‚ USA The University of Texas at Dallas‚ School of Management‚ SM 41‚ 2601 N. Floyd Road‚ Richardson
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c M t y - B a s e d Costing (ABC)‚ Just-in-Time (JIT)‚ T otal Quality M anagement (TQM)‚ a nd Quality Costs b I . .ITY-BASED COSTING Many companies use a traditional cost system such as job-order costing or process costing‚ or some hybrid of t he two. Using the traditional methods of assigning overhead costs to products using a single predetermined overhead rate based on any single activity measure can produce distorted product costs. The growth in the automation of manufacturing
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MANAGEMENT LENDS ITS SUPPORT‚ EMPLOYEES UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE MODELS ARE TESTED‚ AND COSTS/BENEFITS ARE DETERMINED‚ IMPLEMENTATIONS COULD FAIL. ABC‚ ABC EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Few authors have explored the implementation of activity-based costing (ABC) in East Asian companies. This study investigates factors that led to the failure of an ABC implementation at a major Chinese financial institution—the Bank of China. Interviews with 18 employees at one branch revealed six factors that blocked
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ch05 Student: 1. The major limitation of volume-based costing systems is the use of volume-based: A. Criteria. B. Standards. C. Rates. D. Variances. E. Restrictions. 2. Volume-based rates produce inaccurate product cost when: A. A large share of factory overhead cost is not volume-based. B. Firms produce a diverse mix of products. C. Large volumes of a product are manufactured. D. Both answer A and answer B are correct. E. None of the answers above is correct. 3. If the
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JET Task 5 A1. Key Points Banks are concerned with Custom Snowboards liabilities and assets. They are interested in assets as this is what Customer Snowboards will use to generate funds to repay the loan. Banks are interested in liabilities as this is what Custom Snowboards currently owes other creditors. Custom Snowboard‚ Inc. showed a small decrease of 3.40% in net sales from Year 13 to Year 14. This slight reduction can be attributed to the decline in the current economic situation
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Activity-Based Systems: Measuring the Costs of Resource Usage Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan Robin Cooper is a Professor at the Claremont Graduate School and Robert S. Kaplan is a Professor at the Harvard Business School. This paper describes the conceptual basis for the design and use of newly emerging activity-based cost (ABC) systems. TVaditional cost systems use volume-driven allocation bases‚ such as direct labor dollars‚ machine hours‚ and sales dollars‚ to assign organizational expenses
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of current systems. Keywords: ABC; RCA; TDABC; costing systems. INTRODUCTION I n Part 1 of this paper‚ we developed a common terminology and platform to characterize four well-known approaches for computing product costs as they have evolved over time. In particular‚ we described traditional volume-based allocation systems‚ activity-based costing (ABC) systems‚ resource consumption accounting (RCA)‚ and time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) systems. In this second part‚ we evaluate
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CMA Part 1 – Financial Planning‚ Performance‚ & Control Examination Practice Questions © Copyright 2013 Institute of Certified Management Accountants CMA Part 1 – Financial Planning‚ Performance and Control Examination Practice Questions 1. A company is preparing the sales budget for two potential products. Both products require the use of the same manufacturing equipment‚ which is only available for 60 hours each month. The contribution margin of product A is $95 per unit and the contribution
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