Chapter 7 Variable Costing: A Tool for Management Solutions to Questions 7-1 The basic difference between absorption and variable costing is due to the handling of fixed manufacturing overhead. Under absorption costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a product cost and hence is an asset until products are sold. Under variable costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a period cost and is charged in full against the current period’s income. 7-2 Selling and administrative expenses
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Strength Pepsi has a broader product line and outstanding reputation. Merger of Quaker Oats produced synergy across the board. Record revenues and increasing market share. Lack of capital constraints (availability of large free cash flow). o Great brands‚ strong distribution‚ innovative capabilities o Number one maker of snacks‚ such as corn chips and potato chips PepsiCo sells three products through the same distribution channel. For example‚ combining the production capabilities
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1.2- INDUSTRY HISTORY OF PEPSI-COLA INDUSTRY. The Pepsi-Cola story itself begins with a drugstore in New Bern‚ North Carolina‚ and a pharmacist named Caleb Bradham. Bradham’s aim was to create a fountain drink that was both delicious and healthful in aiding digestion and boosting energy. It would be free of the impurities found in many bottled health tonics‚ and it would contain none of the stronger narcotics often added to popular fountain drinks. As most pharmacies in 1896‚ Bradham’s
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nearly 200 countries and territories and generate sales at the retail level of about $85 billion. Many of PepsiCo’s brand names are more than 100-years-old‚ but the corporation is relatively young. PepsiCo was founded in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Tropicana was acquired in 1998 and PepsiCo merged with The Quaker Oats Company‚ including Gatorade‚ in 2001. PepsiCo offers product choices to meet a broad variety of needs and preference -- from fun-for-you items to product choices
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Suppliers & the Target Costing Process The manufacturing process of AAV relied on high "value-added systems suppliers". MB used their supplier linkages to ensure their systems suppliers were a part of the AAV development process from the concept phase to the production phase. Suppliers were required to produce components on time and within MB quality standards while remaining within their established cost targets. Decisions had to be made early in the development stages so suppliers were brought
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During WWII Coke was able to establish itself in the European and Asian markets with the help of the government because it was being sold to the American troops in those regions Weaknesses: 1. Coke’s imagine could not compete with Pepsi’s “Pepsi Generation” campaign because it was perceived as being one of small town and outdated 2. Business relationships with bottlers have not been standardized 3. Carbonated drinks faced completion of “new age” drinks. Opportunities: 1. Quick
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Running head: COKE A Coke is a Coke ITT Tech PROBLEM Why do some of us have such strong soda preferences? There’s all this uproar of Coke vs. Pepsi‚ and really looking at the ingredients‚ the products aren’t all that different. Both are made of carbonated water‚ high fructose corn syrup‚ caramel color‚ sugar‚ phosphoric acid‚ caffeine‚ citric acid and natural flavors (Pendergrast‚ 2000‚ p.6). The natural flavors are where they differ. Coke includes a “secret ingredient” known as Merchandise
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American University in Beirut – Class 16. April 2nd‚ 2014 Mohamed Saada. Coke vs. Pepsi War Overview: In 1985 Coke has introduced a new Coke product replacing its old Coke Formula that has been around for almost 100 years. The reaction has been outrageous by the consumers who resisted the new Coke forcing the company to go back in its decision and sell the two products together. My opinion is that the mistake was partially being a wrong strategic call and partially a mistake in interpreting
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University of Essex ESSEX BUSINESS SCHOOL Session 2009/2010 John Nankervis Email: jcnank@essex.ac.uk Carlo Rosa Email: crosa@essex.ac.uk BE953 (Empirical Methods in Finance) ASSESSED COURSEWORK The assessment for BE953 is by this coursework and a Final Examination. This piece of coursework is worth 50% of the overall assessment of BE953. The requirements for this coursework are as follows: • The coursework consists of data manipulation‚ analysis and interpretation. Although
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input based cost driver basis. Robert Kaplan and Antony Atkinson have given an illustration as how the joint and by-products costing method can be used as a tool in the resource allocation process. The paper aims to generate further discussion‚ with illustration from more industries to help formulate proper guidelines on this complex issue of joint and by-product costing. 2.0: Acknowledgement Going through various sources of information we arrived at the generally accepted cost accounting
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