SYMBIOSIS INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MBA (2012-2014 ) Semester I Course Outline Course Title: Managerial Economics Instructor: Prof.Saina E-Mail: saina.b@sibm.edu.in‚sainabby@gmail.com Telephone No: 9972253101 Objectives: |The course provides a foundation to microeconomics and gives an understanding of the basic principles of microeconomics. It also | |explains analytical tools of economics used to understand business organizations and the dynamics of business
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Evolution of Management Accounting discipline and its relationship with other functions in organizations The challenges of the competitive environment in the 1980s should cause us to examine our traditional cost of accounting and management control systems. The DuPont Corporation (1903) and the reorganization of General Motors (1920) provided the opportunity for major innovations in the management control of decentralized operations‚ including the ROI criterion for evaluation of performance and
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Managerial Accounting and Control Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits Case 14-62 Submited to: Prof. Virgilio c. Avila Submitted by: Roy Kondoy Shella Faye Background of the Study Sportway Corporation Sportway is a wholesale distributor supplying a wide range of moderately priced sports equipment to large chain stores Products: 60% purchased‚ 40% manufactured The company has a Plastics Department that is currently manufacturing molded fishing tackle boxes Sportway
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2a. Describe the three primary managerial attributes: technical competence‚ social and human skills and conceptual ability. Discuss how their importance varies with the type and level of manager’s job. (10m) The three primary managerial attributes were introduced by Robert L Katz. Whilst social and human skills are required through all levels of managements‚ the amount of technical competence and conceptual ability required by a manager varies at different levels of management due to the nature
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Blue Nile Case 1. Blue Nile’s Strategy for success in the marketplace is to increase Blue Nile recognition and create more customer traffic. They want to build a brand loyalty among their customers to encourage repeat purchases. Blue Nile has both online and offline advertising. They offer a wide range of high quality diamonds to appeal to more buyers. Also to keep their pricing competitive. a. I would think that Blue Nile relies on operation excellence to keep customers coming back. They continue
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CHAPTER 5 PRODUCT AND SERVICE COSTING: A PROCESS SYSTEMS APPROACH LEARNING OBJECTIVES AFTER STUDYING THIS CHAPTER‚ YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO: 1. Describe the basic characteristics of process costing‚ including cost flows‚ journal entries‚ and the cost of production report. 2. Describe process costing for settings without work-in-process inventories. 3. Define equivalent units‚ and explain their role in process costing. 4. Prepare a departmental production report using the FIFO method
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"Financial accounting produces information for external parties such as stockholders‚ suppliers‚ banks‚ and government regulatory agencies" (Horngren‚ Sundem‚ & Stratton‚ 2005‚ p. 5). "Financial accountants prepare financial statements based on general ledgers and participate in important financial decisions involving mergers & acquisitions‚ benefits/ERISA planning and long-term financial projections"(Accounting: Job Options‚ 2000). These reports are used by owners of a business‚ or by people who
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Chapter 6 Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships Solutions to Questions 6-1 The contribution margin (CM) ratio is the ratio of the total contribution margin to total sales revenue. It can be used in a variety of ways. For example‚ the change in total contribution margin from a given change in total sales revenue can be estimated by multiplying the change in total sales revenue by the CM ratio. If fixed costs do not change‚ then a dollar increase in contribution margin will result in a dollar
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Questions 1. Which of the following statements about managerial accountants is false? A. Managerial accountants more and more are considered "business partners." B. Managerial accountants often are part of cross-functional teams. C. An increasing number of organizations are segregating managerial accountants in separate managerial-accounting departments. D. In a number of companies‚ managerial accountants make significant business decisions and resolve
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A) Straight-line Depreciation Computation End of Year Year DC X DR = ADE AD BV 2012 220‚000 25% 55‚000 55‚000 195‚000 2013 220‚000 25% 55‚000 110‚000 140‚000 2014 220‚000 25% 55‚000 165‚000 85‚000 2015 220‚000 25% 55‚000 220‚000 30‚000 ($250‚000 – $30‚000) 1/4 = 25% Please note abbreviations are the same as bellow Double- Declining-Balance Depreciation Computation End of Year Book Value Annual
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