and I‚ as your consultant management accountant will like to enlighten you on the importance of a strategic management accountant in an organisation such as this. While Jessup limited is doing well‚ our operations have reached a stage where we need to better manage our accounting function. As you are unsure of the benefits of a strategic management accountant‚ I will be presenting a report to the board of directors to: a) Explain the key roles of a strategic management accountant in an advertising
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ACC2CAD COST ACCOUNTING AND DECISION MAKING SEMESTER 1‚ 2011 MINI CASE STUDY 1 DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; ETHICS Page 1 Recommendation Page.3 Executive summary Page.4 Introduction Page.5 Analysis Page.6 Recommendations and conclusion Page.7 Appendix 1 – Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants Page.8 References Page.9 Page 2 Recommendation Erin should notify Smart Worx of the postponement
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Decision Making 13.3 Types of Costs 13.4 Types of Choices Decisions 13.5 Make or Buy Decisions 13.6 Addition / Discontinuance of a Product line 13.7 Sell or Process Further 13.8 Operate or Shut down 13.9 Exploring New Markets 13.10 Maintaining a desired level of profit 13.11 Summary 13.12 Terminal Questions 13.13 Answers to SAQs and TQs 13.1 Introduction In the previous unit we learnt about Marginal Costing. Marginal costing is the ascertainment of marginal cost and of the effect on profit
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Criticism on historical cost accounting 1. Inability to provide useful information in times of rising prices * Assumes that money holds a constant purchasing power‚ so the result become irrelevance in times of rising prices * Received much criticism during high inflation periods of 1970s and 1980s. * Obvious flaw in time of rising prices. 2. Real problem of additivity * Some countries allowed revaluation of non-current assets and the different assets are revaluing
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THE NATURE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING [SUMMARY] What is Management Accounting? Management Accounting is the process within an organization that provides information used by an organization’s managers in planning‚ implementing and controlling the organization’s activities. Management Accounting as One Type of Information Information is a fact‚ datum‚ observation‚ perception or nay other thing that adds to knowledge. • An organization’s day-to day activities requires a considerable amount of operating
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Puyricard Fine Chocolate. Puyricard is a premium chocolate-maker. It produces and sells fine handmade chocolates‚ calissons and confectionary through its own retail network (14 stores in France: 12 in Provence‚ 2 in Paris)‚ wholesales and website. It is the French leader for craft chocolate‚ with an annual production of 120 tons of chocolate and a turnover of 6‚9 million euros. The company is family-owned and run by the sons of the founders. It was created 40 years ago and the CEO‚ Tanguy Roelandts
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Health Care Cost Accounting A capitation payment arrangement can be an effective means to control healthcare costs because it allows both the insurer and the employer to predict costs for healthcare services more accurately. When a capitation payment method is used‚ the financial risk of caring for the patient is transferred to the medical delivery system. If the healthcare delivery system does not have a cost accounting system or the ability to develop cost information on each payer and service
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Article Review: Target Cost Management An article by Louise Ross puts target costing in effect with agricultural and the farming industry‚ explaining how this system may already be partially in use. Louise Ross provides evidence of the advantages and disadvantages of target costing within the food supply chain. According to Ross‚ participants in the food supply chain were already using some form of target cost management‚ but the system was not formalized into specific aspects. Ross (2008)
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Abstracts This paper starts with introducing importance of management accounting literature and reviews the historical development of cost accounting from 1850 through 2000‚ includes origin of management accounting and controlling practices. In addition it identifies the management accounting theoretical development‚ and the main critiques that shapes the development of management accounting‚ thus creating a ground for future research or reviews. As well as it presents challenge existed in the
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Accounting 2082 Managerial Accounting Exam 1 Sample Exam Questions Printed Name: Date: I certify that I have neither given nor received assistance on this exam‚ in accordance with the University of Cincinnati Student Code of Conduct. Signature: Instructions: Circle your answers for the multiple choice questions on the exam. Fill out the scantron sheet carefully‚ using a #2 pencil. Your name (last‚ then first) and M number must be on the scantron sheet. Type of
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