Standard costs‚ flexible budgeting‚ and variance analysis--all are vital components of an effective cost accounting system. Standard Costs are predetermined costs that are usually expressed on a per-unit basis; they are target costs‚ costs that should be attained. One can think of a standard as a budget for a single unit. Standard costs are the building blocks of a flexible budgeting and feedback system (the comparison of actual performance with planned performance). Since the company’s main objective
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Chapter 9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objective 1 9-2 Learning objective 1 • List and explain five purposes of budgeting systems. Purposes of Budgeting Systems Budget Budget a detailed plan‚ expressed in quantitative terms‚ that specifies how resources will be acquired and used during a specified period of time. 1. Planning 2. Facilitating Communication and Coordination 3
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Galilee College Managerial Accounting Final Exam Overview for Saturday June 8th Instructions A. Complete the budgeting questions and any one of the others. 1. Service Cost Allocations CLASS: Teck Tecky Water Services provides water for Departments A‚B and C and has prepared its total budget using the following information for the next year:- Fixed Costs $300‚000 Budgeted Gallon Usage:- Variable Costs $0.10 per gallon Dept. A 2‚500‚000 gallons Available capacity 10‚000
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Managerial Accounting‚ 3e (Braun/Tietz) Chapter 2 Building Blocks of Managerial Accounting 1) Service companies must carry a large amount of inventory to meet consumer demand. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 LO: 2-1 EOC: E2-1 AACSB: Reflective Thinking Learning Outcome: Define and use cost-volume-profit analysis to analyze the effects of changes in costs and volume on a company’s profits 2) Manufacturing companies usually have three types of inventory. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 LO: 2-1
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How Much Can the Internet help GM? 1. Analyze GM using the competitive forces and value chain models. Porter’s competitive forces model Porter’s value chain model 2. Evaluate the current business strategy of GM in response to its competitive environment. What is the role of Internet technology in that strategy? How successful is that strategy? The current business strategy of GM in response to its competitive environment is based on the belief that by intensively weaving Internet
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ACCOUNTING 569 MIDTERM 1 FALL 1995 NAME ______________________ ID # I. 15 Points 1. Otis Corp. has the following data: Selling price $50/unit Variable manufacturing costs $20/unit Fixed costs: Manufacturing $100‚000 Selling and admin. $ 50‚000 a.(3 points) The breakeven point is: b.(3 points) Given a volume of 15‚000 units‚ operating leverage is: c.(4 points)
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------------------------------------------------- Subject: Managerial Accounting Case 1 Seligram In the Seligram case‚ the existing cost accounting system measured two components of cost: direct labor and burden. All burden cost‚ which is the overhead‚ was grouped into a single cost pool and was calculated only by using a burden rate per direct labor dollar. This may cause problems since direct labor and overhead are not consumed by the products in the same proportion. Simply using the same burden rate
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is an organizational plan stated in monetary terms. It is a plan that outlines an organization’s financial and operational goals. So a budget may be thought of as an action plan. Planning a budget helps a business allocate resources‚ evaluate performance‚ and formulate plans. While planning a budget can occur at any time‚ for many businesses‚ planning a budget is an annual task‚ where the past year’s budget is reviewed and budget projections are made for the next three or even five years. The basic
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change. They have been dumping trash all their lives and think it is good enough. In many instances recycling costs money‚ mainly driveway pick-up recycling. And people don’t want to spend money.Enforcement‚ even if people were fined for not recycling‚ how would it be enforced? That seems like a lot of extra back-end infrastructure to place before setting it to law. Overall Yes people should recycle as much as possible‚ and being fined is a good incentive to start‚ but I don’t think it is realistic without
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Chapter 1 Managerial Accounting: Tools for Decision Making Discussion QUESTIONS Q1-1. Financial accounting is oriented toward external users and is concerned with general-purpose financial statements. These financial accounting statements are highly aggregated‚ report on relatively long time periods‚ are oriented toward the past‚ and must conform to external standards. These standards emphasize the use of objective data. Management accounting is oriented toward internal users and is
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