Super Bakery‚ Incorporated Costing Methods Super Bakery Incorporated (SBI) is a successful virtual corporation focused on supplying donuts and other baked goods to the institutional food market. SBI was founded in 1983 by former Pittsburgh Steelers’ running back Franco Harris. The management has used an outsourcing strategy‚ whereby‚ selling‚ manufacturing‚ warehousing‚ and shipping functions have been outsourced to strategic partners. The goal is to extract the maximum value-added from these
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Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity resource to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. It also assigns more indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs. In business organization‚ the ABC methodology assigns an organization’s resource costs through activities to the products and services provided to its customers. It is generally used as a tool for understanding product and
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The Activity-Based Costing Method: Development and Applications Gregory Wegmann* This paper analyzes the management accounting applications‚ which try to improve the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) method. First‚ the paper describes them using the Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) stream. Then it presents the main features of these applications. Second‚ the paper examines in detail two of these features: the widening of the analysis perimeter and the relevant level of details to analyze the
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Week 4: Costing Methods The week four individual paper addresses the implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC) by Super Bakery‚ Inc.‚ a virtual corporation founded by Franco Harris. Specifically‚ management strategies‚ the reasoning behind an ABC system‚ and the alternatives of a job order cost system or a process order cost system are assessed for this enterprise. Management Strategies A virtual corporation is described as a technology-linked network of companies‚ suppliers‚ and customers
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Introduction: Process costing is a form of operations costing which is used where standardized homogeneous goods are produced. This costing method is used in industries like chemicals‚ textiles‚ steel‚ rubber‚ sugar‚ shoes‚ petrol etc. Process costing is also used in the assembly type of industries also. It is assumed in process costing that the average cost presents the cost per unit. Cost of production during a particular period
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TOTAL ASSET MANAGEMENT Life Cycle Costing Guideline September 2004 TAM04-10 Life Cycle Costing Guideline September 2004 TAM04-10 ISBN 0 7313 3325 X (set) ISBN 0 7313 3272 5 1. 2. 3. I. Asset management – New South Wales. Capital Investment. Public administration – New South Wales Title. (Series : TAM 2004) This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968‚ no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from
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Introduction to Standard Costing Standard costing is an important subtopic of cost accounting. Standard costs are usually associated with a manufacturing company’s costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead. Rather than assigning the actual costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead to a product‚ many manufacturers assign the expected or standard cost. This means that a manufacturer’s inventories and cost of goods sold will begin with amounts reflecting
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There have been discussions to adopt IFRS fully in the near future. The United States accounting system will undergo drastic changes in 2010 when this occurs. There are many similarities between US GAAP and IFRS but I will be discussing the costing methods for GAAP‚ IFRS and the differences between the two. GAAP is a codification of how CPA firms and corporations prepare and present their business income and expense‚ assets and liabilities on their financial statements (Kartia‚ 2008). GAAP
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they do not make a difference between those costs that are fixed‚ and those that are variable. As a result‚ management became obligated to rely on the alternative variable costing method which provides better information for managerial accounting purposes. Although it is not allowed for external reporting‚ the variable costing method is preferred by managers because it generates great tools for internal decision making purposes CITATION Nat76 \l 1033 (Accountants‚ 1976). Introduction Accounting‚ the
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Chapter 7 Notes Page 1 Variable Costing Absorption As we have seen in previous chapters‚ when you manufacture your own inventory‚ the cost of that inventory includes all of the costs associated with running the factory that produces the inventory. Generally‚ no part of the factory cost is expensed. Instead‚ it is capitalized as the cost of the inventory produced. It is only expensed when the inventory is sold. At that point the cost of the inventory becomes Cost of Goods Sold. This system is
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