add value and/or save costs for the organisation. Our overall aim is to introduce an efficient cost allocation method to improve pricing accuracy of products. This can be done by first; adopting activity based costing (ABC) method as suggested by Hampton instead of the existing simple costing method in the company. ABC recognizes the relationship between activities‚ cost and products which helps to allocate cost per unit to products more accurately. The main activities that run the business must be
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Test Bank for Cost Management A Strategic Emphasis 5th Edition Multiple Choice Questions The Institute of Management Accountants’ standards of ethical conduct for management accountants includes the elements of: Mark - incorrect Answers 1. A.Competence‚ confidentiality‚ integrity‚ and relevance. - Given 2. B. Competence‚ confidentiality‚ integrity‚ and credibility. 3. C. Competence‚ confidentiality‚ independence‚ and objectivity. 4. D. Competence‚ accuracy‚ integrity‚ and independence. According
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peace and social unity are most successfully established through a commonwealth by a social contract. Hobbes portrays the perfect governing figure over the commonwealth to be the “Leviathan”. Throughout Leviathan he is demonstrating the necessary attributes that the perfect Leviathan would require to maintain civil peace and social unity. To understand Leviathan‚ one must understand Hobbes’ definition of the state of nature as violent‚ his opinion on human nature to be selfish‚ a social contract to
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both relevant and irrelevant costs and it is important to identify them separately. So here the meanings of relevant and irrelevant costs have been discussed. Activity based costing is another method in cost accounting and it contains both benefits and problems. Here in this report benefits and problems of activity based costing have also been mentioned. As per (Norton and Hughes‚ 2009:p.3) strategy can be defined as a course of action‚ set to achieve a specific objective which includes specification
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Description In ACC 301‚ you discussed the Dakota Office Products (DOP) case and were asked to design the ABC system. For this assignment in BCOM 250‚ you will take what you learned in ACC 301 and write a report recommending that DOP use activity-based costing to determine its pricing to customers. You do not need to go into deep detail about how you would design the ABC system. You will work with a team of 4-5 people to produce this deliverable. Assume that your group is part of the accounting staff at
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ACCOUNTING TOOLS FOR BUSINESS DECISION MAKING SIXTH EDITION MANAGERIAL This page intentionally left blank Jerry J. Weygandt PhD‚ CPA University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison‚ Wisconsin Paul D. Kimmel PhD‚ CPA University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Donald E. Kieso PhD‚ CPA Northern Illinois University DeKalb‚ Illinois Dedicated to the Wiley sales representatives who sell our books and service our adopters in a professional and ethical
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$500‚000 $520‚000 Direct Labor Hours 300‚000 hrs. 290‚000 hrs. The factory uses a predetermined overhead rate per direct labor hour to apply factory overhead. During the year jobs which cost $1‚200‚000 were completed‚ and finished goods costing $1‚000‚000 were sold. No inventories were on hand at the beginning of the year. Determine the ending balance of Work-In-Process: a. $400‚000 b. $425‚000 c. $480‚000 d. $580‚000 2. At the beginning of 2013‚ Sparky Company had direct
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The Four Key Attributes of Strategic Management Strategic Management must firstly be directed towards a company’s goals and objectives. Typically the company will be organized with a mission and vision developed‚ stating a purpose and direction of the overall organization. The goals and objectives set by the manager’s act as stepping stones to maintain that vision. These goals need to be transparent throughout the organization to allow the key players to achieve buy-in as the team moves towards
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1. If Wilkerson were to cut prices‚ based on contribution margin‚ to just cover short-term variable costs‚ what consequences could it experience? (5 marks) Several break-even-point assumptions are made in calculation: 1) Total fixed costs do not change with volume‚ and will exist regardless if the products are sold or not. 2) Sales mix will be constant. The contribution-margin percentage is 66.1%‚ which means 66.1 percent of each sales dollar is available for covering fixed costs and making
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Sippican Corporation According to the activity based costing‚ the manufacturing overhead should be apportioned in the following method The Direct Material cost per unit and the direct labour cost per unit for the valves‚ pumps and the flow controller is given below. Direct Material Direct Labour Total Units Cost/unit cost/unit Valves 7500 16 12.35 Pumps 12500 20 16.25 Flow Controller 4000 22 13 The total manufacturing overhead of $654600 should be apportioned based on the activity required for
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