Allocation of Fixed Costs ACC 403 Principles of Accounting The articles describe two different approaches: Lean accounting and activity based costing. Both have pros and cons and the selection of "what is best for allocating IT" likely rests with the culture and types of businesses. I personally believe that activity-based costing‚ which essentially casts IT as a variable cost‚ making users sensitive to the requests they make of IT because every request is an incremental cost to their
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the unfair headquarters’ overhead cost allocation method of Korea insurance company. There are concerns towards the system by a manager. And that lead to reduce on net income of branches. Jin Kim is trying to develop more efficient systems. The reading text is about the headquarters’ cost allocation method of Korea insurance Co. Inc. Jin Kim‚ manager of the company‚ accused that the costing systems is inefficient as it leads to decrease in incremental cost inappropriately and discourages employees
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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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allocate costs? How do companies allocate costs? And how this cost allocation can affect the decision making of the company. It is important for the companies to find the proper method to allocate the costs. Cost allocation is an important issue in many companies because many of the costs associated with designing‚ producing and distributing products and services are not easily identified with the products and services that are created. It would have been easier for companies to allocate cost if costs
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Joint-cost allocation. Elsie Dairy Products Corp. buys one input‚ full-cream milk‚ and refines it in a churning process. From each gallon of milk Elsie produces three cups of butter and nine cups of buttermilk. During May 2010‚ Elsie bought 12‚000 gallons of milk for $22‚250. Elsie spent another $9‚430 on the churning process to separate the milk into butter and buttermilk. Butter could be sold immediately for $2.20 per pound and buttermilk could be sold immediately for $1.20 per quart (note: two
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Cost Allocation at Water Purification Group Mary May pushed the door to her office thinking about her plan to enrol her daughter for a medical degree at a private university. The private university is the only institution of higher learning that her daughter can apply for‚ considering her high school results. Mary sat down at her table and a smile came to her lips. Her financial situation will definitely improve after the company‚ Bio-Organics‚ announce this year’s bonuses. Project ORG7 she
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Florio Project Costing Allocation of resources to project tasks (labor and material): Resource allocation is critical since it involves the planning of all the resources required for our project. This will help us utilize only the amount of resources required for the project. As Project managers‚ often times we have to work in limited budgets. If we are able to do resource allocation efficiently‚ it can facilitate the project since resource allocation is one of the most difficult an important
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CHAPTER 16 COST ALLOCATION: JOINT PRODUCTS AND BYPRODUCTS 16-1 Exhibit 16-1 presents many examples of joint products from four different general industries. These include: Industry Separable Products at the Splitoff Point Food Processing: • Lamb • Lamb cuts‚ tripe‚ hides‚ bones‚ fat • Turkey • Breasts‚ wings‚ thighs‚ poultry meal Extractive: • Petroleum • Crude oil‚ natural gas 16-2 A joint cost is a cost of a production process that yields multiple products simultaneously. A separable
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1. Service Cost Allocations CLASS: Teck Tecky Water Services provides water for Departments A‚B and C and has prepared its total budget using the following information for the next year:- Fixed Costs $300‚000 Budgeted Gallon Usage:- Variable Costs $0.10 per gallon Dept. A 2‚500‚000 gallons Available capacity 10‚000‚000 gallons Dept. B 2‚000‚000 gallons Dept C 1‚500‚000 gallons Instructions: Assuming that the single-rate method is used and the allocation base is budgeted
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Cost Allocations & Activity Based Costing (ABC) Abstract The cost allocation is a process of assigning costs to different activities. There is several methodology of cost allocation. The cost driver allocates costs into different activities and locations. Health organizations use different allocation methods according to their needs to attain organization and profitability. The purpose of allocation is to make the understanding
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