though “ABC has emerged as a tremendously useful guide to management action that can translate directly into higher profit” (Kaplan and Copper1991) It is not fair to say that Absorption costing is no longer relevant. In fact ABC does not conform to GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles). Absorption costing is conventionally used for external reports‚ filings and other statutory compliances; where all of the manufacturing costs and only manufacturing costs are needed. For example auditors
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Chapter 3 – Question 28 (a) Develop a decision table for this decision? Decision Alternatives | Market (‘000) | | Good | Fair | Poor | Small | 50 | 20 | –10 | Medium | 80 | 30 | –20 | Large | 100 | 30 | –40 | Very Large | 300 | 25 | –160 | (b) What is the maximax decision? Decision Alternatives | Market (‘000) | Maximax decision shall be the maximum value of a row/decision alternatives | Maximax Decision Alternative | | Good | Fair | Poor | | | Small
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CREATE Research Archive Published Articles & Papers 1-1-1980 Structuring Decision Problems for Decision Analysis Detlof von Winterfeldt University of Southern California‚ winterfe@usc.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://research.create.usc.edu/published_papers Recommended Citation von Winterfeldt‚ Detlof‚ "Structuring Decision Problems for Decision Analysis" (1980). Published Articles & Papers. Paper 35. http://research.create.usc.edu/published_papers/35 This Article
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Activity Based Costing The major strength of activity based costing is the ability to estimate the cost of individual products and services precisely. By transferring overhead costs to individual units of products or services‚ ABC helps identify inefficient or non-profitable products or activities that help into the profitability of efficient processes or highly profitable products. 1. More accurate costing of products/services Product cost determination under activity-based costing is more accurate
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Part 3 Case Analysis Report – DBS Consulting Services Executive Summary This report provides an analysis of Activity Based Costing systems and Conventional Costing systems to determine whether the application of Activity Based Costing concepts would be useful at DBS Consulting Services. A profitability analysis of the two consulting services offered by DBS Consulting Services (e-Commerce Consulting and Information Systems Consulting) was performed using Activity Based Costing and Conventional
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Case Problem RC Coleman Activity Description Immediate Predecessor A Determine equipment needs - B Obtain vendor proposals - C Select vendor A‚ B D Order System C E Design new warehouse layout C F Design warehouse E G Design computer interface C H Interface computer D‚F‚G I Install system D‚F J Train system operators H K Test system I‚J (a) (m) (b) Time Activity Optimistic Most Probable Pessimistic A 4 6 8
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VARIABLE COSTING Learning Objectives 1. Explain the accounting treatment of fixed manufacturing overhead under absorption and variable costing. 2. Prepare an income statement under absorption costing. 3. Prepare an income statement under variable costing. 4. Reconcile reported income under absorption and variable costing. 5. Explain the implications of absorption and variable costing for cost-volume-profit analysis. 6. Evaluate absorption and variable costing. 7
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Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a methodology that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. By using ABC to assign the overhead costs to each activity‚ the following steps should be followed: 1. Identify and define activities using interviews and surveys. Then build a list of activities. • Activity name-usually consists of an action verb and an object.
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LIFE CYCLE COSTING Life cycle costing (LCC) is the process of collecting‚ interpreting and analyzing data and using quantitative tools and techniques to predict the future resources that will be required in any life cycle of a system of interest. LCC can also be defined as a technique to establish the total cost of ownership. It is a structured approach addresses all the elements of this cost and can used to produce a spend profile of a product over its life span. The result of LCC usually
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profits reported under variable and absorption costing differ? How can we reconcile the profits reported under the two approaches? Profits reported under variable and absorption costing will differ when inventory increases or decreases during the year. The difference involves the timing with which fixed manufacturing overhead becomes an expense. Under variable costing‚ fixed overhead is expensed immediately as it is incurred. Under absorption costing‚ fixed overhead is inventoried until the manufactured
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