Cost allocation for indirect costs Cost Pool – Set of costs that are added together before being allocated to cost objects on some common basis Cost Driver/ Allocation base Cost Object Cost Driver Rate = Total Costs in Pool/ Total Quantity of Driver Where total quantity of driver = practical capacity of driver Cost of excess capacity = Cost Driver Rate * Excess capacity Predetermined overhead rate - cost per unit of the allocation base used to charge overhead to products. Predetermined
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Topic 6: Management Accounting and Cost Case: Shelter Partnership a. My main learning outcomes from Topic 6 and the Case Study; 1) Firstly‚ I realize management accounting has much to offer. Somehow I can handle physics but not accounting. Now thanks to this course I can appreciate and make sense of it. The bit that really caught my attention was seeing how management accounting can be really useful for business planning‚ cost management‚ budgeting and performance measurement. It offers
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2 Economic Systems for Resource Allocation Decisions about resource allocation are necessary because we live in a world of scarcity. A review of the ideas listed at Key Points 1.1 and 1.2 should remind you of how central this basic premise is to the study of any branch of economics. To take a surreal example‚ when you open your front door in the early morning there are not millions of bottles of milk covering the neighbour’s lawn; nor is there no milk. There is just enough bottled milk to meet
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Memory Allocation Now we will discuss about the various memory allocation schemes. Single Partition Allocation In this scheme Operating system is residing in low memory and user processes are executing in higher memory. Advantages * It is simple. * It is easy to understand and use. Disadvantages * It leads to poor utilization of processor and memory. * Users job is limited to the size of available memory. Multiple-partition Allocation One of the simplest methods
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Neither CAPM nor APT stipulate E. No pricing model has found Both models attempt to explain asset pricing based on risk/return relationships. Difficulty: Easy 2. ___________ a relationship between expected return and risk. A. APT stipulates B. CAPM stipulates C. CCAPM stipulates D. APT‚ CAPM‚ and CCAPM stipulate E. No pricing model has found APT‚ CAPM‚ and CCAPM models attempt to explain asset pricing based on risk/return relationships. Difficulty: Easy 3. In a multi-factor APT
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returned from an ABC seminar and has been asked to assist in the development of an ABC system in the organization. The following data are as follows: |ACTIVITY |Estimated indirect activity cost|Allocation base |Estimated quantity of allocation| | |(cost pool) |(cost driver) |base | |Materials handling |RM200‚000 |kg
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since the evidence is very mixed. So the debate on the validity of the CAPM remains a questionable issue. keywords: CAPM‚ CAPM’s variants‚ Assumptions‚ Literature Survey. JEL Classification: G11. 1. Introduction The traditional capital assets pricing model (CAPM)‚ always the most widespread model of the financial theory‚ was prone to harsh criticisms not only by the academicians but also by the experts in finance. Indeed‚ in the last few decades an enormous body of empirical researches
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-1 steps. In contrast‚ many array data structures allow access to any element with a constant number of operations‚ independent of the number of entries. General Disadvantages Linked data structures also may also incur in substantial memory allocation overhead (if nodes are allocated individually) and frustrate
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single indirect cost allocation rate: total indirect costs/total amount of checks processed $2‚850‚000/$95‚000‚000 = $0.03 per dollar processed b) total annual indirect cost assigned to the retail customer line and the business customer line: amount of checks processed x allocation rate = total indirect costs $9‚500‚000 x $0.03 = $285‚000 (retail customers) $85‚500‚000 x $0.03 = $2‚565‚000 (business customers) $95‚000‚000 x $0.03 = $2‚850‚000 (total) The allocations are driven by the
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size but the order size do not confirm with the minimum order size requirements of the plants in Hong Kong and China. We therefore need to drop the orders of those products as they are risky and may result in loss. We can make order allocations as: 1. Allocation 1 : Dropping of ISIS‚ STEPHANIE‚ TERI. Total Remaining order size =
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