Question 2 Cost Volume Profit Analysis 1.0 Introduction According to Jon Scheumann “a successful organizations need a culture that is attuned to cost management and pay attention to cost structure” From that statement manager must pay attention and carefully thinking when do decision making to the cost. For example when manager want to target the profit. They must take every cost that related in production such as variable cost and fix costs. Cost Volume profit analysis is used in decisions
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product costing systems. Be sure to address the following: Professor and class‚ * How do the two systems differ? The two alternatives for product costing systems are job and process. The two differ in that with job costs these are specified for a particular job. Process costs go by each process that is done (Kinney & Raiborn‚ 2013‚ p 150). * What are the characteristics of the companies that would use each? The characteristics of the companies that would use either a job-related system
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Cost Accounting of Nursing Home Introduction Cost accounting is traditionally viewed as manufacturing support system so it is usually used for product related systems. Nursing homes are the entities that provide healthcare services to patients seeking special treatments. The cost accounting for nursing homes will revolve around the services provided by them and we considered them as our major ‘cost objects’. It offers the most extensive care a person can get outside a hospital. Nursing
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Cost of Quality In current context same meaning: Quality Costs‚ Cost of Quality‚ Cost of Poor Quality Impact of Costs Price Erosion Sales Profit +Warranty Cost +Material allowance Ideal $ Variable Cost Spread of break-even zone Fixed Cost Quantity Yield -> Waste -> (from design‚ defects‚ efficiency) -> impact costs Why Focus on Cost of Poor Quality? Price Erosion Profit Profit Profit Profit Total Cost to manufacture and deliver products Cost of Poor Quality COPQ Cost of Poor Quality
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you recommend that G.G. Toys change its existing cost system in the Chicago plant? In the Springfield plant? Why or why not? G.G. Toys should change its existing cost accounting system from traditional costing to activity-based costing (ABC) in the Chicago plant as it is allocating its entire manufacturing overhead on the basis of just one cost driver: production run direct labor cost. Since overhead at the Chicago plant is high‚ accurate cost accounting system is required. Different types of
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considerations are measurement issues. Financial measures‚ in particular‚ cost measures‚ are needed to evaluate alternate strategies on whether to introduce a new product or service line‚ to determine the appropriate sale price and the consequent market position for the firm’s product. Question 1) “Contribution” represents the portion of sales revenue that is not consumed by variable costs and so contributes to the coverage of fixed costs. To compute profit contribution that can be earned by carrying 1
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Tooling Business Unit (TBU) Choice of Cost System Huge Company ’s tooling business unit manufactures metal and carbon fiber parts for the company ’s major products. They currently use the Functional-Based Costing system or FBC. In this costing system they compute a combined labor and overhead cost per labor hour and charges each job based on the number of labor hours used. This labor-based charge is added to the materials cost to calculate the total job cost. TBU works for internal customers
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Economics Luis D. Maymí Romero University of Phoenix ECO/212 Prof. Mayra Malpica Rivera April 27‚ 2015 Economics There are four principals of decision making: People face trade-off The cost of something is what you give up to get it Rational people think at the margin People respond to incentives The first principle can be summarized with the following phrase “There’s never a free lunch” every time that you need something you have to give something in return. One example is an employee that needs
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Assignment: Fixed Costs‚ Variable Costs‚ and Break-Even Point Exercise 10.1 During the sixth month of the fiscal year‚ the program director of the Westchester Home-Delivered Meals (WHDM) program decides to again recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP using the high–low method. Here are the number of meals served and the total costs of the program for each of the first six months: Month Meals Served Total Costs July 3‚500 $20‚500. August 4‚000 $22‚600. September 4‚200 $23
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fully allocating all costs to products‚ customers‚ and other costing objects in an activity-based costing system. This results in overstated costs. More accurate product costs may result in increasing the selling prices of some products. 3. Matt Company uses activity-based costing. The company has two products: A and B. The annual production and sales of Product A is 8‚000 units and of Product B is 6‚000 units. There are three activity cost pools‚ with total cost and total activity as
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