Table of Contents Page Declaration Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Method Of Costing 5 What drive them to use that method 6 Short Term Strategy 7 Long Term Strategy 8 Future Plans 9 Important Issues 10 Conclusion 11 Bibliography 12 Declaration We declare that this assignment is result of our own hard work‚ understanding and research based on
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Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 6 TARGET COSTING 7 TATA NANO – THE INTRODUCTION 9 A BREAK THROUGH CAR 11 COST CUTTING FEATURES 12 TARGET PRICING THE NANO 13 Product Features 13 Dimension 13 Engine specifications for Tata Nano 14 Safety features for Tata Nano – The 1 Lakh car 14 How green is Tata Nano? 14 IDEA GENERATION OF NANO 14 THE COST – THE TARGET 16 THE COST REDUCTION PARADIGM 17 Value Engineering Alternatives: 17 Now the question was‚ “how much to produce” 17 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 18 The Final verdict:
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Activity-Based Costing System A presentation by Ahmad Tariq Bhatti FCMA‚ FPA‚ MA (Economics)‚ BSc Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates Activity-Based Costing Activity-Based Costing System 2 The Concept Activity-Based Costing In contrast to traditional/absorption costing system‚ ABC system first accumulates overheads costs for each organizational activity‚ and then assigns the costs of the activities to the products‚ services‚ or customers (cost objects) causing that activity. Activity-Based Costing System
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Assigning Overhead Costs – Overhead costs are not directly related to production volume‚ and therefore cannot be traced to units of product in the same way as direct materials and direct labor. Consequently‚ we must assign overhead costs using an allocation system. There are three methods of overhead allocation 1. The single plant wide overhead rate method (as discussed in Chapter 2) Single overhead rate = Total budgeted overhead for the plant / Total budgeted base With base being
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Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) addresses internal operating concerns and is an augmentation to the traditional cost management system. It is not a replacement for traditional accounting‚ but makes use of the source documents provided from standard job costing systems. ABC looks at a business unit’s events as cost drivers and assigns all company resources and accumulated costs against those events in a time-phased sequence. Revenue tracking provides management with a different point
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supermarkets. In today’s competitive market where mobile phones have a short product life cycle‚ it is important for producers to develop and market products that not only meet the customers demand for features and applications at a certain price level but also generate the desired profits to make it a viable business model. This essay analyses the benefits and limitations of using target costing and life-cycle costing systems over the costing and performance measures currently being utilised by the company
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MARGINAL COSTING AS A COSTING SYSTEM Marginal Costing is a type of flexible standard costing that separates fixed costs from proportional costs in relation to the output quantity of the objects. In particular‚ Marginal Costing is a comprehensive and sophisticated method of planning and monitoring costs based on resource drivers. Selecting the resource drivers and separating the costs into fixed and proportional components ensures that cost fluctuations caused by changes in operating levels‚ as
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Activity based costing Definition and concept ‘An approach to the costing and monitoring of activities which involves tracing resource consumption and costing final outputs. Resources are assigned to activities‚ and activities to cost objects based on consumption estimates. The latter utilise cost drivers to attach activity costs to outputs.’ Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing methodology that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources
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BAYERO UNIVERSITY‚ KANO SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES‚ FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES A case study of Activity Based Costing in Lagos State Healthcare By POPOOLA‚ OLUWATOYIN MUSEDIKU JOHNSON Course Facilitator: Professor Kabiru Isa Dandago Being a paper presented in the M.Sc. Accounting Programme‚ Department of Accounting‚ Bayero University‚ Kano-Nigeria December 15‚ 2009 Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the healthcare systems‚ in particular the blood transfusion
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Part one: Activity-based costing (ABC) is an accounting system that aids in providing various methods of calculating dynamically and practically the true cost of doing business for manufacturers and services. The core characteristic of ABC is that overhead costs are driven by activities themselves not products. ABC assigns a company’s overhead costs‚ which are the indirect cost such as electricity‚ lighting‚ heat or marketing‚ into the product’s cost. Specifically‚ ABC applies nonunit-level activity
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