Return on Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership: A Comparison Introduction When a business decision is made to make an investment‚ the need for metrics arises to decide the profitability of the investment. These metrics can be measured before an investment is made to gain an insight into expected returns or they can be measured at regular intervals‚ (quarterly or yearly) to analyse the profitability of the investment. There are quite a few metrics that are used to calculate profitability
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under efficient operating conditions absorption costing all manufacturing costs are assigned to products: direct material‚ direct labour‚ variable and fixed manufacturing overhead acceptable quality level (AQL) the defect rate at which total quality costs are minimised account classification method (or account analysis) the process in which managers use their judgement to classify costs as fixed‚ variable or semivariable costs accounting rate of return (or simple rate of return‚ rate of return on assets
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The Cost of Turnover Putting a Price on the Learning Curve by Timothy R. Hinkin and J.BruceTracey Employee turnover does more than reduce service quality and damage employee moraleit hits a hotels pocketbook. E mployee turnover has long been a concern of the hospitality industry‚ and therefore of researchers who examine industry human-resources concerns. One stream of research that arose in the past 20 years was an effort to quantify the cost of employee turnover. Although most managers
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CHAPTER 14: PROCESS COSTING AND THE COST ACCOUNTING CYCLE Multiple Choice c 1. ABC Company made the following journal entry. Work in Process Inventory $200‚000 Direct Labor $188‚000 Direct Labor Rate Variance 12‚000 From this entry we can tell that ABC uses a. job-order costing. b. process costing. c. standard costing. d. normal costing. d 2. CDE Company
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Norwegian currency is the krone‚ which is denoted by Nkr.) The company uses a sob-order costing system arid applies manufacturing overhead cost to jobs on the basis of direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year‚ the following estimates were made for the purpose of computing the predetermined overhead rate: manufacturing overhead cost‚ Nkr360‚000; and direct labor-hours‚ 900. The following transactions took place during the year (all purchases and services were acquired on account): a. Raw
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Construction assembles residential houses. It uses a job-costing system with two direct-cost categories (direct materials and direct labor) and one indirect-cost pool (assembly support). Direct labor-hours is the allocation base for assembly support costs. In December 2010‚ Amesbury budgets 2011 assembly-support costs to be $8‚300‚000 and 2011 direct labor-hours to be 166‚000. At the end of 2011‚ Amesbury is comparing the costs of several jobs that were started and completed in 2011. Laguna Model
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INDUSTRIAL LABOUR Industrial labour is labour in industry‚ mostly understood as manufacturing‚ but can include related service workers‚ such as cleaners...(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_labour) INDUSTRIAL labour is also one who are in the participation for the production of good and services and for the betterment of the company. In every industry many rights are given to the labour of all classes and many laws had been made ‚providing the labour their due rights in result of their effective
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COSTING 4-1 Cost pool––a grouping of individual indirect cost items. Cost tracing––the assigning of direct costs to the chosen cost object. Cost allocation––the assigning of indirect costs to the chosen cost object. Cost-allocation base––a factor that links in a systematic way an indirect cost or group of indirect costs to cost objects. 4-2 In a job-costing system‚ costs are assigned to a distinct unit‚ batch‚ or lot of a product or service. In a process-costing system‚ the cost of a product
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Name: Amanda Brooks Journal Report #1 Journal: JOGNN Clinical Issue Volume: 35 Page: 547-556 Year: 2006 Author(s): Kathleen Rice Simpson‚ Dotti C. James‚ and G. Eric Knox Article Title: Nurse-Physician Communication During Labor and Birth; Implications for Patient Safety Summary (in your own words): To sum up the article‚ It’s about nurses and physicians lacking communication between one another. If they lack communication‚ then it can involve any kind of injury or death. When the
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Total Cost of Ownership: This is defined as the an approach for measuring financial returns which involves consideration of all the additional costs required to support and maintain the item purchased for its full useful life and adding such costs to the purchase price (Reh‚ n.d). Calculating TCO No general formula for calculating TCO exist the general principle is Purchase Costs + All other additional costs. In IT investments some additional costs might be cost of maintenance‚ support costs
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