Activity-Based Costing ABC Company produces two products: Product A and Product B. Recently appointed management decided to change from a unit-based‚ traditional costing system to an activity-based costing system. The following data have been gathered‚ to assess the effect of the change: Product type Quantity Prime Costs Machine Hours Material Moves Setups Product A 60‚000 €150‚000 3‚500 6‚800 800 Product B 15‚000 € 30‚000 2‚750 1‚200 450 Expenditures (€) €180‚000 €120‚000
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[pic] Learning Objectives: ← To understand the meaning of standard costing‚ its meaning and definition ← To learn its advantages and limitations ← To learn how to set of standards and determinations ← To learn how to revise standards Introduction: Standard costing is a very practical and therefore widely used costing system‚ in businesses that make a range of products which‚ although different‚ pass through standard and repetitive processes and machinery. Standard cost is the
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Uniform Costing and Inter Firm Comparison UNIFORM COSTING Uniform Costing is not a distinct method of costing. In fact‚ when several undertakings start using the same costing principles and/or practices they are said to be following uniform costing. The basic idea behind uniform costing is that the different concerns in an industry should adopt a common method of costing and apply uniformly the same principles and techniques for better cost comparison and common good. The principles and methods
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Marginal Costing vs Absorption Costing Marginal Costing and Absorption Costing are methods which are often used to prepare profit statements‚ value inventory and assist in pricing decisions. The methods have some notable differences‚ which can be reconciled though. Absorption Costing absorbs all manufacturing/production costs into inventory valuation. These costs include direct material‚ direct labour‚ direct expenses‚variable production overheads‚ as well as fixed production overheads. On the
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MARGINAL COSTING Introduction Even a school-going student knows that profit is a balancing figure of sales over costs‚ i.e. Sales - Cost = Profit. This knowledge is not sufficient for management for discharging the functions of planning and control‚ etc. The cost is further divided according to its behavior‚ i.e.‚ fixed cost and variable cost. The age-old equation can be written as: Sales - Cost = Profit or Sales - (Fixed cost + Variable Cost) = Profit. The relevance of segregating costs
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Soni KAIZEN COSTING: DEFINITION: * Kaizen Costing is the process of continuously reducing the costs that occur after a product design has been completed and is now in production. * Here‚ the costs can be reduced by working with the suppliers to reduce the costs in their processes; by implementing less costly re-designs of the product‚ or by reducing waste costs i.e. the costs behind the wastage of time‚ raw material and the other resources used for producing the product. * The term
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TERM PAPER STANDARD COSTING MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING & CONTROL SYSTEM Srinidhi Rangarajan 1PB11MBA34 3rd SEM M.B.A PESIT ABSTRACT In recent years‚ numerous tools such as activity-based costing‚ the balanced score card and target costing have gained prominence in the business community. Nonetheless‚ traditional management accounting continues to be prevalent in practice. One example is standard costing‚ which has been used on a wide front during
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Basics Fixed costs Activ. Based Costing Target Cost. Life-Cycle Costing Cost Benchmarking Prof. Dr. P. Weber-Dreßler Stategic Costing.ppt (p. 1) Strategic Costing Strategic Costing Basics Contents Fixed costs Part 1: Basics to strategic costing 1. Traditional costing vs. strategic costing 2. Specifics of strategic costing 3. Tools of strategic costing Activ. Based Costing Target Cost. Life-Cycle Costing Cost Benchmarking Prof. Dr. P. Weber-Dreßler Stategic
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Process costing Process costing is a system which mostly practices by a company whereby the manager of the company wants to know the cash flow from one department to another. Process costing give a clarify information to managers‚ therefore this activities is very important. Process costing is consisting of three ingredients which are direct materials‚ direct labor and manufacturing overhead. Direct material is the raw material which needs to produce a product‚ for example rubber for shoes‚
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Normal costing is used to value manufactured products with the actual materials costs‚ the actual direct labor costs‚ and manufacturing overhead based on a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate. These three costs are referred to as product costs and are used for the cost of goods sold and for inventory valuation. Standard costing values its manufactured products with a predetermined materials cost‚ a predetermined direct labor cost‚ and a predetermined manufacturing overhead cost. These standard
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