ACC307 #32 1) Professional Labor Hours Indirect Costs Direct Costs Legal Support Indirect-Cost Pool Cost-Allocation Base Cost Object: Direct Labor Job for clients Direct Costs 2) 2008 budgeted direct-cost rate per hour of professional labor $104‚000 / 1600 hours = $65 per professional labor hour 3) 2008 budgeted indirect-cost rate per hour of professional labor $2‚200‚000 / (25 x 1600 hours) = $55 per professional
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Health Care Cost Accounting A capitation payment arrangement can be an effective means to control healthcare costs because it allows both the insurer and the employer to predict costs for healthcare services more accurately. When a capitation payment method is used‚ the financial risk of caring for the patient is transferred to the medical delivery system. If the healthcare delivery system does not have a cost accounting system or the ability to develop cost information on each payer and service
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Economies of scale are the advantages in average cost reductions that can be achieved through the growth of a plant‚ firm‚ or an entire industry. There are various different types of economies of scale‚ all of which can be grouped together into either internal or external. Internal economies occur within a plant or firm‚ and external economies are the consequence of the growth of the entire industry or region. Economies of scale are therefore the advantages of a growth. However‚ we must also consider
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summary of the contents of the document.] compaq [Type the company name] [Pick the date] Contents Concept of Cost Accounting……………………………………………………………………03 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………..03 Traditional costing v/s activity based costing…………………………………………………..04 Need for an Activity Based Costing……………………………………………………………06 Stages in Activity Based Costing……………………………………………………………....08 Cost Drivers…………………………………………………………………………………….09 Classification of activities………………………………………………………………...……10 Steps
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Criticism on historical cost accounting 1. Inability to provide useful information in times of rising prices * Assumes that money holds a constant purchasing power‚ so the result become irrelevance in times of rising prices * Received much criticism during high inflation periods of 1970s and 1980s. * Obvious flaw in time of rising prices. 2. Real problem of additivity * Some countries allowed revaluation of non-current assets and the different assets are revaluing
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I. Cost behavior defined Module 4 Review Questions The left column lists several cost classifications. The right column presents short definitions of those costs. In the blank space beside each of the numbers in the right column‚ write the letter of the cost best described by the definition. A. Curvilinear cost B. Step-wise cost C. Fixed cost D. Mixed cost E. Variable cost F. Total Cost ___E_1. This cost increases in direct proportion to increases in volume; its amount is constant for each unit
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Sippican’s cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? 2. Calculate the practical capacity and the capacity cost rates for each of Sippican’s resources: production and setup employees‚ machines‚ receiving and production control employees‚ shipping and packaging employees‚ and engineers. 3. Use these capacity cost rates and
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allocate service department costs to “production” or user departments‚ and ultimately to the products and services that they provide. For example‚ hospitals use sophisticated methods for allocating costs of service departments such as Housekeeping‚ Patient Admissions‚ and Medical Records to patient wards and outpatient services‚ and then to individual patients. Historically‚ these allocations were important to hospitals because Medicare reimbursement was based on actual costs. To the extent that the
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Was the existing system adequate in the past? Why or why not? Why is it no longer adequate? The existing system was adequate in the past due to heavy reliance on direct labor hours. The ETO served as a central cost center‚ and transferred the costs to other divisions at direct costs plus allocated burden. Being in the late 1970s and early 1980s‚ technology testing of components required fewer cycles‚ and less complicated structures. Hence‚ such testing on products could be carried out by direct
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Best Practices in Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis Robert F. Bruner‚ Kenneth M. Eades‚ Robert S. Harris‚ and Robert C. Higgins This paper pn ^ents ihns‚ Wn Itujjlini; finunaal advtsi-i’s. lUic -M-ven‚ best selling texlho(>k.\ and trade hooks. The re.sulls show close aligninvn! ainuu-^:‚ all lh< M S‚ y’i’jps an ihc use of common theoreliva! frameworks and on many aspects of estimation. We Jin a ’’an.>( •arunhtn. however‚ for the joint choices oflhe nsk-free rate. heia.
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