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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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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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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COST ACCOUNTING M.ASAD ABBAS PAF KIET TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ......................................................................................................3 Introduction .....................................................................................................................4 Costing Strategy of Vesta Apparel.............................................................................5 Full Cost of the Primary
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Cost of Debt and Cost of Equity: Cost of Debt is the interest rate and the Cost of Equity is the expected rate of return demanded by investors in the firm’s common stock. The issue at hand is finding the correct costs of debt and equity in order to find an accurate calculation of WACC. Cohen used the 20-year yield on U.S. Treasuries as the risk free rate‚ which we found to be the correct figure given that Nike Inc. debt was valued over 25 years. Because there is no other given yield that is comparable
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The Cost of Living The question I was frequently asked when I was younger was‚ “What are you going to be when you grow up?”. From elementary school to early middle school‚ I would’ve told you I wanted to be a pop start or a vet. As I realize that I can’t sing and there is too much schooling behind being a vet‚ I’ve decided to become something a little more practical‚ a video editor. With the growing technological industry‚ and the various awards I have received in this field‚ video editing seemed
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Cost of Goods Checkpoint Cost of Goods Checkpoint A multi-step income statement for a trading business highlights the fact that between 40% and 60% of revenue from sales is accounted for as the cost of goods sold. The cost of goods attributed to a company’s products is expensed as the company sells these goods. There are several ways to calculate COGS but one of the more basic ways is to start with the beginning inventory for the period and add the total amount of purchases made during the
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Cost of equity refers to a shareholder’s required rate of return on an equity investment. It is the rate of return that could have been earned by putting the same money into a different investment with equal risk. How It Works/Example: The cost of equity is the rate of return required to persuade an investor to make a given equity investment. In general‚ there are two ways to determine cost of equity. First is the dividend growth model: Cost of Equity = (Next Year’s Annual Dividend /
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the year‚ the company has extended their product range to pumps and flow controllers. The main learning outcome from analyzing the case study is manufacturing overhead cost allocation. Exhibit 2 in the case study shows pumps has a highest manufacturing overhead cost compare to valves and flow controller. The common overhead cost drivers in the production are machine hours‚ production runs and hours of engineering work. The key issue in this case study is the gross margin on pump sales is 19.5%
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