Office Dakota Products Case Analysis Course: BUSA 5061 Managerial Accounting Students Name: Teresa Willette Professors Name: Dr. Conner/Dr. Pollard Date 3/20/2011 Executive Summary The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In the analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate
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Differences between Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Cost Strategy Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies overhead activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity resource to all products and services according to the actual consumption‚ while traditional costing equally distributes all overhead expenses. Thus‚ an organization employing ABC‚ can precisely estimate the cost of its individual products and services for the purposes of identifying and
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Costing a Garment Costing is the deciding factor for fixing of prices and the important thing to follow in all stages like purchase‚ production‚ marketing‚ sales‚ etc. Also updated knowledge about everything related to garments‚ is essential to make perfect costing. Costing includes all the activities like purchase of fabrics and accessories‚ processing and finishing of fabrics‚ sewing and packing of garments‚ transport and conveyance‚ shipping‚ over heads‚ banking charges and commissions‚ etc. We
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Yolanda Y. Reviere Case 9 Decisions Decisions In the business world and in everyday life people and companies must make decisions. Not all decisions made in the business world are simple as those make in everyday life. Decision making is an important skill for business and life. There are various steps involved that help people make decision and improve the quality of the decisions made. Decision making is the process of choosing a course of action to deal with a problem or opportunity.
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Market analysis for product software Market analysis for product software consists of a number of techniques that allow an organization to collect and disseminate information from their external environment of software products for use in determining their market strategy and actions. For example‚ market analysis helps to determine critical strategies for new software products such as time-to-market length‚ creating product differentiation‚ creating and preserving supplier credibility‚ developing
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Price for the product Based on the market research of a new product and also the market condition‚ the selling price is established. The desired profit margin is subtracted from the target selling price to determine the target cost. If the target cost is below the company’s current cost‚ the company may decide to introduce the product and functional cost analysis may attempt to reduce cost to an acceptable level. If the target cost is above the current cost‚ functional cost analysis will make changes
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STANDARD COSTING (VARIANCES) 1.1 Material costs variance = (Standard quantity x Standard Price) – (Actual quantity x Actual price) MCV = (SQ × SP) – (AQ × AP) 1.2 Material price variance = Actual quantity × (Standard price – Actual price) MPV = AQ × (SP – AP) 1.3 Material usage variance = Standard price (Standard quantity – Actual quantity) MUV = SP × (SQ –AQ) 1.4 Material cost variance = Material usage variance + Material price variance MCV = MUV + MPV 1. Material Variance Material usage
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Contract costing is a type of a specific order costing: Contractor costing is generally used for the works of constructional nature such as civil engineering works etc.‚ Each contract is considered as a separate unit of cost and a separate account is kept for each individual contract. The special features of contract costing are as detailed below: Materials: The materials purchased directly or issued from the stores or transferred from other contracts are recorded on the debit side of the
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Advantages and disadvantages of variable costing Many managers use variable costing for internal reporting and decision making since it has number of advantages (Myers par. 1). First‚ on variable costing reports costs are organized by behavior which makes it easier to understand. Also‚ variable costing statements facilitate cost volume profit (CVP) analysis because it separates cost behavior by fixed and variable. Under variable costing‚ changes in inventory or production do not affect the
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Analysis for Product and Services Innovation 2 Credits BU.430.730.S1 TH 6:00-9:00pm/ 6/5/14-7/24/14 Semester – Summer 2014 Class Location: Washington DC Center Instructor Robert Roundtree‚ PhD Contact Information Phone Number: (980) 292-1421 E-mail Address: rroundt1@jhu.com Office Hours Tuesdays 12pm-1pm (Baltimore) Thursdays 4:30-5:30pm (DC Center) Required Textbook Crawford‚ Merle and Di Benedetto‚ Anthony‚ New Products Management (11th Edition ISBN 978-0-07802904-2). McGraw Hill
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