Description In ACC 301‚ you discussed the Dakota Office Products (DOP) case and were asked to design the ABC system. For this assignment in BCOM 250‚ you will take what you learned in ACC 301 and write a report recommending that DOP use activity-based costing to determine its pricing to customers. You do not need to go into deep detail about how you would design the ABC system. You will work with a team of 4-5 people to produce this deliverable. Assume that your group is part of the accounting staff
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Dakota Office Products Case Analysis BUSA 5061: Accounting For Managerial Decision-Making November 4‚ 2010 The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In our analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate the company’s current pricing structure‚ ordering methods
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1.Based on the interviews and data in the case‚ we calculated the following information. (1)The cost of processing cartons through the facility: Personnel expense (warehouse‚ truck drivers)2‚570‚000 ¡ÐCompensation for truck drivers ( 250‚000) Warehouse personnel expense $2‚020‚000 ¡ÏWarehouse expenses (excluding personnel) 2‚000‚000 $4‚020‚000 (2) The cost of entering electronic and manual customer orders: Order entry expenses $ 840‚000 (3) The cost of shipping cartons on commercial
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Leadership 372 Trumpy Ultimate Office Products Successfully implementing a large system change in an organization can be very challenging. It also requires a unique set of leadership qualities to do it well. Richard Kelley‚ the newly hired Director of Information Systems for Ultimate Office Products‚ was called to this challenge. Richard needed to replace the obsolete order processing system company-wide to improve their customer service and deliver products more quickly. This would allow them
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Midwest Office Products Aaron Wilson‚ Brittni Henson‚ Dennie Smyth & Joshua Boatright Midwest Office Products Case ACCT. 6233 October 15‚ 2012 1. Based on the interviews and data in the case‚ estimate: a. The cost of processing cartons through the facility The two costs of processing cartons through the facility are warehouse costs and warehouse personnel costs. The total processing costs are $54/carton. Cartons/yr | 80000 | Commercial Freight | 75000 | Desktop Delivery | 5000
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Introduction Glaser Health Products manufactures medical items for the health care industry. Production involves machining‚ assembly and painting. Finished units are then packed and shipped. The financial controller is interested to introduce an activity-based costing (ABC) system to allocate (or distribute) indirect costs to products. Indirect costs‚ as distinct from direct costs‚ cannot be unambiguously linked to specific products. The controller would like to calculate product costs based on ABC for planning
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Decision at Applied Office Product Company ’s Background In 1992‚ Allied Office Products was a corporation with annual sales of $900 million. It deals with manufacturing of following forms : * Business Forms * Specialty paper product such as writing paper‚ envelopes‚ note cards‚ and greeting cards In 1988‚ as form manufacturing business matures‚ Allied Office Product had expanded into business form inventory management system and put a step ahead to attain a competitive advantage by embarking
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Chapter 4-1 Activity-Based Costing Managerial Accounting Fifth Edition Weygandt Kimmel Kieso Chapter 4-2 study objectives Chapter 4-3 1. Recognize the difference between traditional costing and activity-based costing. 2. Identify the steps in the development of an activity-based costing system. 3. Know how companies identify the activity cost pools used in activity-based costing. 4. Know how companies identify and use cost drivers in activitybased costing. 5. Understand the benefits
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Services Executive Summary This report provides an analysis of Activity Based Costing systems and Conventional Costing systems to determine whether the application of Activity Based Costing concepts would be useful at DBS Consulting Services. A profitability analysis of the two consulting services offered by DBS Consulting Services (e-Commerce Consulting and Information Systems Consulting) was performed using Activity Based Costing and Conventional Costing. Using the conventional costing approach
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Activity Based Costing can be defined as an accounting methodology that assigns costs to activities based on their use of resources‚ rather than products or services. This enables resources and other associated costs to be more accurately attributed to the products and the services which they use. It doesn’t change or eliminate any costs; it provides detailed information about how costs are consumed. (Online manager-net.com). Traditional cost accounting looks at what is spent‚ while ABC methods
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