Journal of Money‚ Investment and Banking ISSN 1450-288X Issue 6 (2008) © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2008 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Costing the Banking Services: A Management Accounting Approach Jordi Carenys Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School EADA‚ c/o Aragó 204‚ 08011 Barcelona‚ Spain E-mail: jcarenys@eada.edu Tel: 934 520 844; Fax: 933 237 317 Web: www.eada.edu Xavier Sales Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School
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Strategic Management Accounting APC309 Individual assignment Weighting – 100% of the marks for this module This is an individual assignment of 3‚000 words‚ excluding the bibliography and any appendices. The word count MUST be shown on the front cover of the assignment. All of the learning outcomes for the module are being assessed in this assignment. The learning outcomes are shown in the section entitled “Marking Guide”‚ which is further on in this document. The University’s
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COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING Target Costing at Toyota Akriti Kapoor 11PGDM003 Section A Introduction There are numerous differences between management practices in Western companies and companies in Japan. One of the main differences is related to cost reduction. A manager in Europe or the United States generally expects to use cost information to make decisions about pricing and investments‚ while a Japanese manager expects to use cost information to control costs. Toyota uses cost
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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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Airline Operating Costs By Peter Horder‚ Senior Vice President SH&E Ltd Prepared for: MANAGING AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE COSTS Conference Brussels‚ 22 January 2003 Agenda Introduction Current Airline Environment Airline Cost Elements Indirect and Direct Operating Costs Overhead Cost Control Balance Sheet Effects Reference Sources Conclusions 1 Introduction Current airline environment Safety considerations and costs – Security restrictions – Insurance implications Cost reduction
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1 AN OVERVIEW OF TARGET COSTING Introduction Many managers often underestimate the power of target costing as a serious competitive tool. When general managers read the word “costing”‚ they naturally assume it is a topic for their finance or accounting staff. They miss the fact that target costing is really a systematic profit and cost management process. What Is Target Costing? CAM-I defines target costing as the maximum amount of cost that can be incurred on a product and still earn the required
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Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a methodology that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. By using ABC to assign the overhead costs to each activity‚ the following steps should be followed: 1. Identify and define activities using interviews and surveys. Then build a list of activities. • Activity name-usually consists of an action verb and an object.
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Navigate * Activity-Based Costing (Encyclopedia of Management) * Activity-Based Costing (Encyclopedia of Small Business) Activity-Based Costing * Print * PDF * Cite * Activity-based costing (ABC) is an accounting method that allows businesses to gather data about their operating costs. Costs are assigned to specific activitiesuch as planning‚ engineering‚ or manufacturingnd then the activities are associated with different products or services. In this way‚ the
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Product costing systems in modern manufacturing organisations Product costing refers to the process of assigning shared direct and indirect costs to individual products‚ customers‚ branches or other cost items. (USAID‚ 2007) Product costing is also referred to as assigning costs to inventory and production based on the expenses that go into producing or buying inventory. It is an important process for manufacturers that helps improves management information on products and helps managers and the
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Process costing is used for homogenous products (continuous flow processes such as producing cans of soda). Job-order costing is used in situations where the organization offers many different products or services‚ such as in furniture manufacturing‚ hospitals‚ and legal firms. Process costing is used where units of product are homogeneous‚ such as in flour milling or cement production. The purpose of a job order cost accounting system is to assign and accumulate costs for each job‚ i.e
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