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    periods. In calculating the cost of a product‚ both direct labor and direct materials are often easy to identify and allocate to each product. For instance‚ the materials used in making product X are allocated directly to the cost of that product. These are not the only costs involved. Overheads‚ or indirect costs‚ cannot be allocated directly to each product but must be ‘shared’ between all of the items produced by a business. There is more than one costing method that can be used to apportion these costs

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    KAIZEN COSTING FOR A RESTAURANT ABSTRACT Kaizen is a Japanese term for “continuous improvement” or “continual improvement”. A philosophy that involves making the work environment more efficient and effective. Kaizen aims to eliminate waste such as “activities that adds cost but does not add value”. It also means “to take it apart and put it back together in a better way”. This is then followed by standardization of this ‘better way’ with others‚ through standardized work. The key objectives

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    Greeting Inc. has operated for many years as a nationally recoginzed retailer of greeting cards and small gift items. It has 1500 stores throughout the united States located in high-traffic malls. as the stock price of many other companies soared‚ Greeting’s stock price remained flat. as a result of a heated 2013 shareholders’meeting ‚ the president of Greetings‚ Robert Burns‚ came under pressure from shareholders to grow Greeting’s stock value. As a consequence of this pressure‚ in 2014 Mr. Burns

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    MARGINAL AND ABSORPTION COSTING Marginal costing is a technique in which production units are valued at marginal cost of production and fixed costs are written off as period costs. It follows that‚ stocks are valued using only the variable cost of production whereas fixed costs are treated as relating to the period and must be taken off in total. Management accounting is based on marginal costing. TERMINOLOGY USED. Gross contribution: Is the difference between sales value and variable costs

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    Marginal Costing Vs. Absorption Costing 1. During the current period‚ ABC Ltd sold 60‚000 units of product at Rs. 30 per unit. At the beginning for the period‚ there were 10‚000 units in inventory and ABC Ltd manufactured 50‚000 units during the period. The manufacturing costs and selling and administrative expenses were as follows: Total cost Rs. Beginning inventory: Direct materials Direct labour Variable factory overhead Fixed factory overhead Total Current period costs: Direct materials Direct labour

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    Process costing is used for homogenous products (continuous flow processes such as producing cans of soda). Job-order costing is used in situations where the organization offers many different products or services‚ such as in furniture manufacturing‚ hospitals‚ and legal firms. Process costing is used where units of product are homogeneous‚ such as in flour milling or cement production. The purpose of a job order cost accounting system is to assign and accumulate costs for each job‚ i.e

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    Absorption and Variable Costing‚ Inventory Management Absorption and Variable costing are very important tools for cost accounting. Both of these costing methods allow you to see the cost of your inventory‚ in a different way. For example the absorption method allows you to assign all costs to the product‚ while variable costing allows only variable costs to be assigned to the product. Inventory management is extremely important as well because it ties into efficiency and lowering your costs

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    Variable costing and absorption costing are the two most commonly used methods of inventory costing for manufacturing companies. The inventory method of variable costing takes place when total direct and indirect variable manufacturing costs are included within inventoriable costs. Fixed manufacturing costs however‚ are considered costs of the period under variable costing. The next method of inventory costing‚ absorption costing‚ includes all variable manufacturing costs as well as fixed manufacturing

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    & Service costing Service Costing   Unit costing is the method of costing used when the cost units are identical. Identical cost units should have identical costs and this concept of equality of costs is the basic feature of unit costing.   It may be noted that process costs‚ output costing and service costing are the sub-divisions of unit costing method.   Service Costing – Nature and Problem:   Service or operating cost is the cost of providing services. Service costing is the term

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    Direct selling is the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers away from a fixed retail location. Peddling is the oldest form of direct selling. Modern direct selling includes sales made through the party plan‚ one-on-one demonstrations‚ and other personal contact arrangements as well as internet sales. A textbook definition is: "The direct personal presentation‚ demonstration‚ and sale of products and services to consumers‚ usually in their homes or at their jobs." Advantages/Benefits

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