activity-based costing and the creation of individual cost pools that will use direct labor hours (DLH)‚ material handling (MH)‚ and number of shipments (NS) as cost drivers. Data on the cost pools and respective driver volumes follow. Product Alpha Gamma Pool Cost Pool No. 1 (Driver: DLH) 200 1800 $420‚000 Pool No. 2 (Driver: MH) 15 10 $375‚000 Pool No. 3 (Driver: NS) 2‚000 18‚000 $20‚000 1. The overhead cost allocated to Alpha by using traditional costing procedures
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Cost Control: Definitions and Methods Alejandro Madotta Accounting Supervisor II at Apache Corporation The cost of making a particular product or delivering a particular service is calculated by the finance and accounting department‚ with the help of a technique that is termed as Cost Accounting. The principle of cost accounting is very simple. The total cost of manufacturing a set or lot of goods or services is added up together and divided by the number of unites that have been produced‚
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QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 15 (COST OF CAPITAL) 1.) The Wind Rider Company has just issued a dividend of $2.10 per share on its common stock. The company is expected to maintain a constant 7% growth rate on its dividends indefinitely. If the stock sells for $40 a share‚ what is the company’s cost of equity? 2.) The Ball Corporation’s common stock has a beta of 1.15. If the risk free rate is 5% and the expected return on the market is 12%‚ what is Ball Corp.’s cost of equity capital?
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Choose the best answer for the question from among the choices provided. 1. Cost accounting differs from financial accounting in that cost accounting is: a) Primarily concerned with income determination b) Relied on for analyzing and implementing internal decisions c) Focused only on qualitative information d) Primarily concerned with external reporting e) None of the above 2. The following costs relate to
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What is cost of capital? The cost of capital is the cost of obtaining funds‚ through debt or equity‚ in order to finance an investment. It is used to evaluate new projects of a company‚ as it is the minimum return that investors expect for providing capital to the company‚ thus setting a benchmark that a new project has to meet. Importance The concept of cost of capital is a major standard for comparison used in finance decisions. Acceptance or rejection of an investment project depends on the
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statements. b. analyzing data. c. performance reports. *d. economic events. 4. _______________ is devoted to providing information for external users. a. Management accounting *b. Financial accounting c. Internal accounting d. Cost accounting 5. Financial accounting information is used for a. investment decisions. b. regulatory measures. c. stewardship evaluation. *d. all of these. 6. Which of the following is NOT part of the financial accounting information
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outlets. There are a number of factors on which quality fitness of garment industry is based such as - performance‚ reliability‚ durability‚ visual and perceived quality of the garment. Quality needs to be defined in terms of a particular frame¬work of cost. The national regulatory quality certification and international quality programmes like ISO 9000 series lay down the broad quality parameters based on which companies maintain the export quality in the garment and apparel industry. Here some of main
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Period 7 Cost of College In 1983‚ the tuition per term at the University of Oregon was $321. There were three terms per year. In the year 2005‚ the cost of tuition at the University of Oregon is $5853 per year‚ or $1951 per term. This growth in the cost of tuition can be modeled by an exponential function: y = a(b)x. The variable y represents the cost of tuition per term‚ and the variable x corresponds to the number of years that have passed since the initial year. To find this exponential
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selecting strategies that yield a long-term competitive advantage. 2. Depreciation is an allocation of a sunk cost. This cost is a past cost and will never differ across alternatives. 3. The salary of the supervisor of an assembly line with excess capacity is an example of an irrelevant future cost for an accept-or-reject decision. 4. Past costs can be used to help predict future costs. 5. Yes. Suppose‚ for example‚ that sufficient materials are on hand for producing a part for two years.
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machine hours and outgoing shipments‚ which are the activities’ three respective cost drivers‚ follow: Luxury Exclusive Setups 50 30 Machine hours 16‚000 22‚500 Outgoing shipments 100 75 The firm’s total overhead of $3‚080‚000 is subdivided as follows: manufacturing setups‚ $672‚000; machine processing‚ $1‚848‚000; and product shipping‚ $560‚000. REQUIRED: a) Calculate the unit manufacturing cost of Luxury and Exclusive electric sleeping bags by using the company’s current overhead
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