1. Activity Based Costing benefits businesses that are more complex in nature. In this case‚ Greetings. INC has added a new product line‚ Wall Decor‚ which permits them to grow without expanding their physical stores; however‚ they have significantly raised their overhead costs by multiplying their cost drivers. Not to mention the fact that they have incorporated a largely automated system into their product line‚ which we know calls for an ABC system. The main reason to move to ABC though‚ would
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Chapter 2 Case 1: Greetings Inc.: Job Order Costing Solution: 1. As seen in the case‚ using a traditional job-order costing system Wall Décor charges the actual costs of direct materials and direct labor to its specific jobs- unframed prints‚ steel-framed and no matting prints‚ wood-framed and mating prints. Since costs of manufacturing overhead related to production operations as whole‚ these costs cannot be assigned to specific jobs on the basis of actual costs incurred. Instead‚ Wall
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case 2 C. Greetings Inc. : Activity-Based Costing Developed by Thomas L. Zeller Loyola University Chicago‚ and Paul D. Kimmel‚ Univ ers ity of Wis consin-Milw aukee THE BUSINESS SITUATION Mr. Burns‚ president of Greetings Inc.‚ created the Wall Décor unit of Greetings three years ago to increase the company’s revenue and profits. Unfortunately‚ even though Wall Décor’s revenues have grown quickly‚ Greetings appears to be losing money on Wall Décor. Mr. Burns has hired you to provide consuìting
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Mary E. Jones 01/14/2011 ACC 560 Case 1: Greetings Inc.: Job Order Costing 1. Define and explain the meaning of a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate that is applied in a job-order costing system? A predetermined overhead rate is the rate used to apply manufacturing overhead to work-in-process inventory. The predetermined overhead rate is calculated before the period begins. The first step is to estimate the amount of the activity base that will be required to support operations
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Greetings United States of America Both men and women usually smile and shake hands when greeting. The American handshake is usually firm. Good friends and relatives may embrace when they meet‚ especially after a long absence. In casual situations‚ people may wave rather than shake hands. Friends also wave to each other at a distance. Americans may greet strangers on the street by saying ‘Hello’ or ‘Good morning’ (in Spanish‚ Hola or Buenos días)‚ although they may pass without any greeting. Among
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Greetings Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings (as well as other animals) intentionally make their presence known to each other‚ to show attention to‚ and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other. While greeting customs are highlyculture- and situation-specific and may change within a culture depending on social status and relationship‚ they exist in all known human cultures. Greetings can be
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1. Define and explain the meaning of a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate that is applied in a job-order costing system. The predetermined overhead rate is used for estimating the manufacturing overhead cost because companies cannot assign the actual overhead cost to specific job. From the case‚ Wall Décor uses a traditional job-order costing system. The actual costs of direct materials and direct labor are charged to its specific jobs which are unframed prints‚ steel-framed with no matting
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1. Predetermined overhead is a method of applying overhead to the products under job order costing system. In this method we estimate the overhead and estimate a base and calculate the predetermined rate as Estimated overhead/estimated base. Based on the usage of base‚ the overhead is applied to products. 2. The advantage is simplicity‚ the cost of each print is know and so overhead can easily be applied. The disadvantage is that the cost of print may not be a correct cost driver. As we have seen
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yale case 08-010 American Greetings An Automation versus Outsourcing Dilemma Andrea R. Nagy1 Gene Lee 2 Arthur Swersey3 As part of an industry with generous profit margins and high barriers to entry‚ American th Greetings had spent decades in a comfortable position. Beginning at the turn of the 20 century‚ it had helped to create a mass market for the greeting card and had presided over its growth into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Because the manufacturing of cards—especially those with
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