4. Cost initiative system. This system has helped Wal-Mart to turn into the ease pioneer in the retail advertise. This procedure obliges offering items burrowing little creature the most minimal value conceivable and giving a no lace administrations to attain to higher economies of scale and draw in masses of buyers and that is precisely what the organization is doing. It offers items at much lower costs than contenders do‚ fabricates stockroom style superstores that contain far reaching scope of
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Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate whose purpose is to help consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system. It is a management accounting concept that can be used in full cost accounting or even ecological economics where it includes social costs. Contents • 1 Use of concept o 1.1 Computer and software industries o 1.2 Transportation industry • 2 See also • 3 References 4 External links Use
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TOTAL DIRECT LABOR COST VARIANCE CAN BE SPLIT INTO • Direct labor rate variance (P) Calculation: actual total labor costs - (total actual labor hours worked x budgeted labor hour rate) Interpretation: calculates the portion of labor costs variance driven by the changed labor rate per hour Possible reasons for variances: changes in staff qualification and skills‚ general increase of wages in economy‚ premiums paid to finish a job quickly‚ poor budgeting • Direct labor quantity (efficiency) variance
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High-Low Method The controller of PATAY Hospital would like to come up with a cost formula that links admitting department cost to the number of patients admitted during a month. The admitting department’s costs and the number of patients admitted during the past nine months follow: Month Number of Patients Admitted Admitting Department’s Cost April 18 P 15‚ 600 May 19 P 15‚ 200 June 17 P 13‚ 700 July 15 P 14‚ 600 August 15 P 14‚ 300 September 11 P 13‚ 200 October 11 P 12‚ 800 November
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Colorscope (a) Why would any customer go to Colorscope rather than the large printers listed in Exhibit 3? (b) Set up a two-stage cost system to figure out the profitability of different jobs. Choose resource drivers to allocate the cost of resources to cost pools. Then choose cost drivers to allocate the costs from various pools to jobs. Calculate the cost driver rates. Calculate the profitability of Job 61001. (c) Calculate the profitability of Customer 16. (d) How costly is rework
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Chapter 05 Production and Cost Essay Questions 1. Always Round Tire has a production function of Q = 300 L.75 K.5. In the short run‚ if L = 250 and K = 25‚ what happens to the output of tires if L jumps to 300 and then 350. What law does this illustrate? When L=250 and K=25 then Q=94307. When L increases to 300‚ Q increases to 108‚127. When L increases to 350‚ Q increases to 121‚379. This shows the effects of diminishing marginal returns to labor as a factor of production.
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CHEMICAL BANK - Allocation of Profits EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The overall profitability of Chemical Bank has been negatively affected by a decrease in profit contribution from Due Bills. There is an external threat of reduced interest rates and internal threats in the form of misalignment between involved divisions. The following suggestions aim to counteract this development 1. Increasing sales volumes of Due Bills a. Allocate 100% of profits from customer fees to Metro b. Aligning Metro’s
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Methods / techniques of cost accounting Submitted by : Vishwajeet Gaikwad – 2011G04 Submitted to : Prof. Sameer Deshmukh INDEX SR NO | TITLE | PAGE NO | 1 | INTRODUCTION | 3 | 2 | METHODS OF COST ACCOUNTING | 4 | 3 | TECHNIQUES OF COST ACCOUNTING | 8 | 4 | USEFULNESS
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Fundamentals of Cost and Management Accounting Part Four: Allocation of Support Department Costs‚ Common Costs and Revenues Exercise No. 4 الاسم: الرقم الأكاديمي: رقم الشعبة: Choose the best answer for every question of the following questions: 1) Max’s Movie Store encounters revenue-allocation decisions with its bundled product sales. Here‚ two or more of the movie videos are sold as a single package. Managers
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Case analysis "Cost of Capital at Ameritrade" Cost of capital refers to the maximum rate of return a company must earn from its investments‚ so that the market values of the company’s equity shares do not go down. The people at Ameritrade are not in agreement on the best estimate of the cost of capital. Research analyst put the cost of capital at 12%‚ while other members of the management estimate it to be at 9% and the CFO estimates it to be at 15%. The CEO of the company is optimistic that
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