Cost Accounting‚ 14e‚ Global Edition (Horngren/Datar/Rajan) Chapter 12 Pricing Decisions and Cost Management Objective 12.1 1) Companies should only produce and sell units as long as: A) there is customer demand for the product B) the competition allows it C) the revenue from an additional unit exceeds the cost of producing it D) there is a generous supply of low-cost direct materials Answer: C Diff: 2 Terms: target price Objective: 1 AACSB: Ethical reasoning 2) Too high a price may: A)
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to managerial accounting (n.d.) has shown that the Institute of Management Accountants describes managerial accounting supports the decision making process through planning and controlling operations. Planning primarily appears in the budgeting process and Controlling occurs when managers compare actual performance with budgeted amounts to identify differences and then act upon differences that appear to be significant. For example‚ manufacturing companies use management accounting techniques to
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ECONOMIC CASE FOR QUALITY Measuring the Cost of Quality For Management by Gary Cokins T he quality movement has used the term cost of quality (COQ) for decades. But few organizations have actually adopted a reliable and repeatable method for measuring and reporting COQ and applied it to improve operations. Is the administrative effort just not worth the benefits‚ or is there a deeper problem with the methodology for measuring COQ? What COQ Should Do At an operational level‚ quality
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CHAPTER 25 STANDARD COSTS AND BALANCED SCORECARD SUMMARY OF QUESTIONS BY STUDY OBJECTIVES AND BLOOM’S TAXONOMY Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT True-False Statements 1. 1 K 9. 3 C 17. 3 C 25. 4 C sg33. 3 K 2. 1 K 10. 3 K 18. 4 K 26. 5 K sg34. 4 K 3. 1 C 11. 3 C 19. 4 C 27. 6 C sg35. 4 C 4. 1 K 12. 3 K 20. 4 K 28. 9 C sg36. 5 K 5. 2 C 13. 3 K 21. 4 K 29. 9 C sg37. 6 K 6. 3 C 14. 3 C 22. 4 K 30. 9 C sg38. 7 K 7. 3 K 15. 3 K 23. 4 C sg31. 1 K 8. 3 C 16. 3 K 24. 4 C
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for Managerial Accounting: Week 4: Discussion 1 How does activity-based costing differ from the traditional costing approach? When would it give more accurate costs than traditional costing systems? * Activity based costing (ABC) is a method for assigning costs to products‚ services‚ projects‚ tasks‚ or acquisitions‚ based on the activities that go into them and the resources consumed by these activities. ABC contrasts with traditional costing‚ which sometimes assigns costs using somewhat
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to go wrong in the analysis of direct material and other direct costs and what could be done about it. The analysis of direct material and other direct costs and what could be done about it is that when a particular organization prepares for the budget in relation to the cost of direct material or direct labor then‚ it has to consider the inflation rate and the standard rates in the industry. In relation to the direct labor cost‚ the organization has to analyze of the industrial standard of the
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product costing systems. Be sure to address the following: Professor and class‚ * How do the two systems differ? The two alternatives for product costing systems are job and process. The two differ in that with job costs these are specified for a particular job. Process costs go by each process that is done (Kinney & Raiborn‚ 2013‚ p 150). * What are the characteristics of the companies that would use each? The characteristics of the companies that would use either a job-related system
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allocate costs? How do companies allocate costs? And how this cost allocation can affect the decision making of the company. It is important for the companies to find the proper method to allocate the costs. Cost allocation is an important issue in many companies because many of the costs associated with designing‚ producing and distributing products and services are not easily identified with the products and services that are created. It would have been easier for companies to allocate cost if costs
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Syllabus Course number： Course(in English)： Management Accounting Credit hour：3 Pre-course： Instructing language： Chinese Courseware： English Semester： Fall Course kind： Required course Objects： Master The Course Objectives After the study of this course‚ students should gain full knowledge of the key conceptual framework and generally used methods of management accounting as an important decision making tool for management of businesses
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the development of accounting (based on research by Gray and Hofstede (1988)‚ Robson (1991)‚ and Doupnik and Salter (1995))‚ came to the conclusion that accounting developed because of the complex interaction between it and the external environment. Therefore management accounting‚ as a role player in the business environment and a subfield of accounting‚ has by no means been unaffected by the drivers of change. Siegel and Sorensen (1999:3) contend that management accounting should undergo perpetual
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