Running Heading: COST ALLOCATION AND VARIANCES Cost Allocation and Variances- Chapter 12 & 13 Text Book Questions Stacey S. Swafford University of Phoenix ACC 561 Dr. Janice Mereba April 23‚ 2010 Chapter 12 Excel Application Exercise 12-59: Allocating Costs Using Direct and Step-Down Methods p. 584 Goal: Create an Excel spreadsheet to allocate costs using the direct method and the step-down method. Use the results to answer questions about your findings. Scenario: Antonio
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the solution: Question 1 Prepare a new contribution report for February‚ in which: * The static budget column in the contribution report is replaced with a flexible budget column. * The variances in the contribution report are recomputed as the difference between the flexible budget and actual columns. Answer Particulars | Static Budget | Flexible Budget | Actual | Variance | Unit (pounds) | 200000 | 225000 | 225000 | 0 | Revenue | 1600000 | 1800000 | 1777500 | 22500 U |
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a. Please fully describe the benchmarking process (advantages and disadvantages). b. Explain in detail when and why a firm should employ this process. Benchmarking is the process of identifying "best practice" in relation to both products (including) and the processes by which those products are created and delivered. The search for "best practice" can take place both inside a particular industry‚ and also in other industries. The objective of benchmarking is to understand and evaluate the
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Introduction For this piece of assignment‚ a cash budget will be made for Doomy Corporation for the second quarter of the year. For this budget‚ all the sales figures for the second quarter and some of the expenditure have been given. Hence‚ to prepare a cash budget‚ the sales figure given will be used and some calculations will be worked out in order to fully prepare an outstanding budget for Doomy Corporation the following information will be used efficiently. “Doomy Corporation‚ a rapidly expanding
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Eleven Multivariate Analysis Techniques: Key Tools In Your Marketing Research Survival Kit by Michael Richarme Situation 1: A harried executive walks into your office with a stack of printouts. She says‚ “You’re the marketing research whiz—tell me how many of this new red widget we are going to sell next year. Oh‚ yeah‚ we don’t know what price we can get for it either.” Situation 2: Another harried executive (they all seem to be that way) calls you into his office and shows you three proposed
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SYNOPSIS This System will be a combination of smaller modules such as Admin‚ Doctor‚ Reception and Patient which will be interlinked.These modules further will contain sub routine modules. The system is specially aimed at catering to the needs of hospitals currently not having any such systems or has over grown their needs over a course of time. Current systems work according to the standard guidelines which do not serve optimally due to absence of services
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CAFR Budget Analysis Business - Accounting Select one team member’s CAFR to be the basis for this and subsequent Learning Team assignments‚ using the CAFRs chosen for the CAFR list activity in Week One. Locate and review a copy of the budget accompanying your selected CAFR. Prepare a 700- to 1‚050-word overview of the government that filed your selected CAFR. Include the following information in your overview: Population Governmental structure Size of budget and its
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Capital budgeting is a step by step process that businesses use to determine the merits of an investment project. The decision of whether to accept or deny an investment project as part of a company’s growth initiatives‚ involves determining the investment rate of return that such a project will generate. However‚ what rate of return is deemed acceptable or unacceptable is influenced by other factors that are specific to the company as well as the project. For example‚ a social or charitable project
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Store Budget Analysis Paper Hilton Glynn‚ Steven Briggs‚ Courtney Mercer‚ and Scott Langer ACC/561 6 June 2010 William Wyngaard Guillermo Furniture Store Budget Analysis Paper According to Horngren‚ Sundem‚ Stratton‚ Burgstahler‚ and Schatzberg (2008)‚ a study suggested that more than 150 organizations in North America listed budgeting as the most frequently used cost-management tool. This indicates that the importance of Guillermo’s budget cannot be over-stated. A budget establishes
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The Union Budget was released yesterday. Here are the highlights. * Tax slab on personal income remains unchanged * Income tax exemption limit raised by Rs 50‚000 to Rs 2.5 lakh and for senior citizens to Rs 3 lakh * Exemption limit for investment in financial instruments under 80C raised to Rs 1.5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh. * Investment limit in PPF raised to Rs 1.5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh * Deduction limit on interest on loan for self-occupied house raised to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 1.5 lakh. * Kisan Vikas Patra
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