1a) Activity based costing is a relatively new type of procedure that can be used as an inventory valuation method. The technique was developed to provide more accurate product costs. This improved accuracy is accomplished by tracing costs to products through activities. In other words‚ costs are traced to activities (activity costing) and then these costs are traced‚ in a second stage‚ to the products that use the activities. Another way to express the idea is to say that activities consume resources
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Activity based costing in manufacturing: two case studies on implementation The Authors Amrik S. Sohal‚ Department of Management‚ Monash University‚ Australia Walter W.C. Chung‚ Department of Manufacturing Engineering‚ Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the Financial Controller at MelCo and to Mr Richard Siu‚ now Deputy General Manager of Ciba Specialty Chemicals (China) Ltd. They are also thankful to the Hong Kong Government Industry
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Apple Inc. Case Report Carlos Castro Luis Guzman Zuchytil Padilla Sergio Smith I. COMPANY BACKGROUND Apple INC‚ was founded on April 1‚1976 in a garage by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak‚ and Ronald Wayne. ‘The young entrepreneurs brought different strength to their fledgling company. Jobs had a flair for conceptualizing products‚ while Wozniak had the technical know-how to make them happened” (Washington Post Economy‚ 2012). At first‚ they only focused on personal computers but are now stationed
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Industries Inc. is a young company whose growth was profound up to 1993 when it amassed sales over $222 Million. This company is comprised of three main divisions that are all considered to be independent from one another. The first and oldest division of the company is the Consumer Products Division which designs‚ manufactures‚ and markets a variety of kitchenware. The Industrial Products Division focuses its efforts on creating machinery that is uniquely and specifically designed in a job shop environment
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1.0 Life cycle costing (LCC) 1.1 Definition Life cycle costing is a cost management approach which includes all costs and ensures that all those costs are managed over the life cycle of the product. Product life cycle begins from conception of the product until its abandonment which can be referred as ‘from cradle to grave‘. Product life cycle has four stages: 1) Product planning and initial concept design It involves process of identifying any underlying conditions‚ assumption‚ limitations and
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management (BPM) systems is often spurred by regulatory and compliance concerns. As Thomas Hogan‚Vignette president and chief executive officer‚ told Computerworld‚ the move to adopt ECM technology is driven by “two fundamental business catalysts”: 1. How to render more value in terms of greater revenues or stronger loyalty 2. The need to understand how information flows within the enterprise because of compliance requirements At the Core This article Discusses the importance of developing a
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Glaser Health Products manufactures medical items for the health care industry. Production involves machining‚ assembly and painting. Finished units are then packed and shipped. The financial controller is interested to introduce an activity-based costing (ABC) system to allocate (or distribute) indirect costs to products. Indirect costs‚ as distinct from direct costs‚ cannot be unambiguously linked to specific products. The controller would like to calculate product costs based on ABC for planning
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Zauner Ornaments Costing & Pricing Introduction Zauner Ornaments was a large manufacturer of crystal and glass products based in Vienna Austria. The company had an international reputation of producing high quality glass and crystal at affordable prices due to the skill of its master artisan and using innovative technology in the manufacturing process. Its product was used in fine restaurants‚ hotels and residencies around the world. Due to slowing growth in the fine-crystal and glass-tableware
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ORDER-WINNING AND ORDER-QUALIFYING CRITERIA The terms "order winners" and "order qualifiers" were coined by Terry Hill‚ professor at the London Business School‚ and refer to the process of how internal operational capabilities are converted to criteria that may lead to competitive advantage and market success. In his writings‚ Hill emphasized the interactions and cooperation between operations and marketing. The operations people are responsible for providing the order-winning and order-qualifying
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1. Using the Simple Sheet‚ what happens when Allegro cuts advertising and selling effort to 0$ and raises price to $500/unit? Comment. When we change those three variables‚ the excel gives us the net profit result in $20‚387‚345‚ which is already over 20 million dollars. The market is not changed. However‚ in the real world‚ the market share is definitely affected by any decision you made to the market‚ such as advertising expense and price. This unrealistic net profit is made underlying the assumption
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