product line. According to Sippican’s cost accounting system further decrease in the price of pumps would not be acceptable as because of the past price reductions the margin on pumps have already declined from the planned 35% to 5%. Detailed and alternative analysis of the costs – such as Activity Based Cost analysis – reveals alternatives for the management to decide on pricing‚ efficiency measures‚ and product development. Sippican Corporation uses a simple cost accounting system for performance
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Assignment 2 (20 points) Assignment 2: Costs and Profit Instructions Save this file in your course folder‚ and name it with Assignment‚ the section number‚ and your first initial and last name. For example‚ Jessie Robinson’s assignment for Section 1 would be named Assignment1JRobinson. Type the answers to the assignment questions below. Use complete sentences unless the question says otherwise. You will have more than one day to complete an assignment. At the end of each day‚ be sure to save your
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summary of the contents of the document.] compaq [Type the company name] [Pick the date] Contents Concept of Cost Accounting……………………………………………………………………03 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………..03 Traditional costing v/s activity based costing…………………………………………………..04 Need for an Activity Based Costing……………………………………………………………06 Stages in Activity Based Costing……………………………………………………………....08 Cost Drivers…………………………………………………………………………………….09 Classification of activities………………………………………………………………...……10 Steps
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going to agree that a challenging issue related to entrance to a university is financing. D. Asserting thesis Today I will be talking about the rising cost of tuition. I will argue that “human capital contracts” proposed by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman should be adapted by students looking for funding in order to deal with this rising cost. E. Preview In my speech‚ I will address the needs‚ cause and a solution to this problem. In general‚ the price of tuition and student debt amount
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OVERHEAD COSTS ACCOUNTING Overheads are indirect costs which can not directly be traced to cost units. The task of the cost accountant is to charge these overhead costs to cost units/products. There are two approaches of charging overhead costs to cost units Viz i. Traditional/conventional absorption costing method and‚ ii. Activity Based Costing (ABC) Classification of overheads Overheads can be classified as production or non production overheads. Production overheads are those incurred
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Determining Product Cost Managerial accountants must decide what types of managerial accounting information to provide to managers‚ how to measure such information‚ and when and to whom to communicate the information. For example‚ when making most strategic and operating decisions‚ managers typically rely on managerial accounting information that is prepared in whatever manner the managerial accountant believes provides the best analysis for the decision at hand. However‚ there is one major exception
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Discharges at the Anderson Cost Club Store In the regard to the Anderson Cost Club store‚ the discharge of the employee is legal‚ and the company will have no liability. This is because Georgia is an at-will employment state‚ this means an employee can terminate any employee without reason. Although Anderson Cost Club is in a right-to-work state‚ this has unquestionably nothing to do with the employees being discharged from the organization. According to "Georgia Secretary Of State " (2013)
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G Different Methods for Cost Estimation Expert Judgment Method Expert judgment techniques involve consulting with software cost estimation expert or a group of the experts to use their experience and understanding of the proposed project to arrive at an estimate of its cost. Generally speaking‚ a group consensus technique‚ Delphi technique‚ is the best way to be used. The strengths and weaknesses are complementary to the strengths and weaknesses of algorithmic method. To provide
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Relationship between marginal cost and marginal product. Marginal cost is the additional cost attributed to an additional unit produced. Marginal product is the increase in the total product due to an additional resource allocation. The marginal cost and marginal return have an inverse relationship and can almost be represented as mirror images of each other. The peak of the marginal product corresponds with the lowest point of the marginal cost. Thus as marginal
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standardized. The products are so similar. There are no difference in the quality and hence‚ rules out the need for advertising. Freedom of entry and exit No barrier for new firm’s to enter the market. They do not need license and permits to venture into this market. Perfection of mobility factors of production Factors of production are free to move from one firm to another firm to gain good returns. The differences prices of factors of production will move until equilibrium
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