The Cost Center That Paid Its Way Eric Palmer is the head of Camden Robotics marketing communications department. He was asked by the CEO‚ Tom O’Reilly‚ to turn his department from a cost center into a profit center. Eric has a full team of professionals‚ some of which are very expensive but he doesn’t end up losing any of them. He simply has to start making a profit or Tom O’Reilly may cut costs in the marketing communications department. Eric starts off great. There are a few customers that
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12‚ 2012 Saving Money in Miami Miami is a wonderful city. However‚ living in Miami has some disadvantages because it is a tourist destination. That means the cost of living in Miami is higher than many other U.S. cities. According to Homefair.com‚ Miami is in the top six most expensive cities in the U.S. The average cost of living is approximately $51‚500 (Chapple‚ 2012). Although Miami is an expensive city‚ there are several ways to save money. Clothing‚ transportations‚ and entertainment
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Introduction This assignment focuses on the cost functions of the Dutch Railways. In this tutorial will be an estimated cost function developed for the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS). This cost function (expressed in Dutch Guilders) is based on the period of Year 1951 till Year 1993. This due to certain developments that made it more difficult to come to a good approach of a cost function. Based on the cost function‚ developed in this tutorial‚ there will be an answer provided on the question whether
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Allocate joint product costs according to the benefits-received approaches and the relative market value approaches. 3. Describe methods of accounting for by-products. 4. Explain why joint cost allocations may be misleading in management decision making. 5. Discuss why joint production is seldom found in service industries. This chapter describes the joint production processes and their outputs—joint products and by-products. Several methods are developed to allocate joint costs to joint products
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Cost Accounting Role Cost accounting is valuable to an organization if it significantly improves the decision making process within the organization by providing accurate and timely input regarding the cost behavior in organizations. Generally based on standard accounting practices‚ cost accounting is one of the tools that managers utilize to determine what type and how much expenses is involved with maintaining the current business model. At the same time‚ the principles of cost accounting
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1. Product costs used for pricing and product-mix decisions generally include: Answer | | manufacturing costs only | | | design costs plus manufacturing costs | | | all costs incurred along the value chain | | | distribution costs only | 0.1 points Question 4 Within the relevant range‚ if there is a change in the level of the cost driver‚ then: Answer | | fixed and variable costs per unit will change | | | fixed and variable costs per unit will remain the
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determine if the company is actually making money with their customers. With future growth imminent due to the success of their products‚ it was important that effort was taken to ensure that variable selling‚ general‚ and administrative (SG & A) costs did not increase faster than sales revenue. As Kanthal expanded operations and increased their market share‚ they captured business by meeting their customers ’ expectations for increased service. Increased demands were placed on their production and
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - I agree watching video story is the Triangle Fire that happening was a death of long ago year people in the garment workers died an without in the fire. The Triangle Fire is a worker in the 20th century for people want including fight background of the American industry in New York City about a Government has a century ago most histories of the death in their victims had family and friend. It’s only women can go to workers for Triangle factory will accept can children
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11. A total variance is best defined as the difference between total a. actual cost and total cost applied for the standard output of the period. b. standard cost and total cost applied to production. c. actual cost and total standard cost of the actual input of the period. d. actual cost and total cost applied for the actual output of the period. 12. The term “standard hours allowed” measures a. budgeted output at actual hours. b. budgeted output at standard hours. c. actual output
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Being able to determine whether a cost is fixed or variable is vital to the understanding of overhead loading and cost behavior. A fixed cost is unchanged with a change to the cost driver. (Horngren‚ Sutton‚ and Stratton p.46) Which means that a fixed cost does not rise with the change is production of your product. A good example of a fixed cost is rent. No matter how many widgets you make (within a relevant range) your rent will not increase. A variable cost‚ on the other hand‚ does change with
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