602 Management Accounting David Xu Id: 65990771 Session Preparation Assignment (SPA) #2 Understanding Key Cost Relationships 1. Read Chapter 2 of SN‚ Key meanings in the Chapter. Understanding key cost in a firm is the most important issue in management accounting. That is because business survives on value exchange. Customers and business are willing to exchange money and services (products) based on the costs. How products cost can effect a firm’s financial health is
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Solutions to Questions - Chapter 4 Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans Question 4-1 What are the major differences between the CAM‚ and CPM loans? What are the advantages to borrowers and risks to lenders for each? What elements do each of the loans have in common? CAM - Constant Amortization Mortgage - Payments on constant amortization mortgages are determined first by computing a constant amount of each monthly payment to be applied to principal. Interest is then computed on the monthly
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BRIEF EXERCISES Brief Exercise 4–1 PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31‚ 2013 ($ in millions) Revenues and gains: Sales .................................................................. Gain on sale of investments ............................. Total revenues and gains .............................. $2‚106 45 2‚151 Expenses and losses: Cost of goods sold ............................................ Selling..............................................
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING QUESTIONS 1. Management accounting stresses the informational needs of internal users over those of external users (the focus of financial accounting). Because of this perspective‚ management accounting provides information in a format that is flexible and relevant to a particular manager‟s usage. Financial accounting‚ on the other hand‚ must provide some uniformity in the manner in which information is presented for it to be comparable among companies and
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Chapter 19 Creativity and innovation Defining Creativity: Creativity is the ability to generate original ideas or new perspectives on existing ideas. Overall‚ an idea must have a desirable impact on how organizational goals are accomplished. That is ‚ an idea must be evaluated for positive impact on critical organizational factors like productivity‚ communication‚ coordination‚ or product quality. Importance of Creativity in The organization: Creativity involves seeing issues from different
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Chapter 4 Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems Student Learning Objectives 1. What ethical‚ social‚ and political issues are raised by information systems? 2. What specific principles for conduct can be used to guide ethical decisions? 3. Why do contemporary information systems technology and the Internet pose challenges to the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property? 4. How have information systems affected everyday life? Chapter Outline 4.1 Understanding
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1.0 Introduction According to The Environment Agency in the United Kingdom (2006)‚ Environmental Accounting can be defined as: “The collection‚ analysis and assessment of environmental and financial performance data obtained from business management information systems‚ environmental management and financial accounting systems. The taking of corrective management action to reduce environmental impacts and costs plus‚ where appropriate‚ the external reporting of the environmental and financial
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Chapter 3 #2 - When is a company’s competitive advantage most likely to endure over time? A company’s competitive advantage is most likely to endure over time when the company has built barriers to imitation‚ which make it difficult for a competitor to copy the company’s distinctive competencies. Another element needed is the ability to quickly react to changes in the customer’s needs and have a high absorptive capacity in order to identify‚ value‚ assimilate‚ and use new knowledge. Lastly‚ the
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sold on the income statement. LIFO cost flow assumption: The cost of items purchased latest are the costs that will be transferred first to cost of goods sold on the income statement. 4 methods used to assign costs to inventory and cost of goods sold 1. Specific Identification 2. First-in‚ first-out 3. Last-in‚ first-out 4. Weighted average Goods in Transit: If goods are shipped FOB shipping point‚ then the purchaser is responsible for paying freight charges and the seller will not include the merchandise
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Chapter 24 Completing the Audit Review Questions There are four presentation and disclosure-related audit objectives: 24-1 PRESENTATION AND DISCLOSURE-RELATED AUDIT OBJECTIVES Occurrence and rights and obligations Completeness Accuracy and valuation Classification and understandability DESCRIPTION Account-related information as described in the footnotes exists and represents the rights and obligations of the company. All required disclosures are included in the financial statement
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