Huddart‚ & Slotta Transfer Pricing 1. Overview An essential feature of decentralized firms is responsibility centers (e.g.‚ cost-‚ profit-‚ revenue-‚ or investment-centers). The performance of these responsibility centers is evaluated on the basis of various accounting numbers‚ such as standard cost‚ divisional profit‚ or return on investment (as well as on the basis of other non-accounting measures‚ like market share). One function of the management accounting system therefore is to attach a dollar
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contributes towards the fixed costs of the business and‚ once these are paid‚ the profits of the business. Managers need to know‚ as accurately as possible‚ the cost of each product or service produced by the firm. One reason for this is the need to make a pricing decision. In fact‚ buyers of many products will want an estimated price or a quotation before they agree to purchase. Managers may also need to decide whether production should be stopped‚ stepped up or switched to new methods or new materials. Managers
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Continuous Improvement + Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) n It is an ongoing effort to improve products‚ services‚ or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. n W. Edward Deming‚ a pioneer of the field‚ saw it as part of the ’system’ whereby feedback from the process and customer were evaluated against organizational goals. + How to develop a culture of Continuous Improvement: n A
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HCS/588 Measuring Performance Standards Quality improvement is an organizational approach to improve quality of care and services using a specified set of principles and methodologies. Principles of quality improvement are measurements‚ which the data is used to improve care‚ focusing on the important patient outcomes and consumer needs‚ being involved with participants‚ such as encouraging direct participation in teams by those individuals who implement the processes being evaluated. Ensuring
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Chapter 11 Pricing Strategy Multiple Choice Questions 1. _____ on pricing decisions concern primarily the nature of the target market and expected reactions of consumers to a given price or change in price. a. Government influences b. Environmental influences c. Supply influences d. Demand influences Answer: d Learning Objective: 11-1 Level of Difficulty: Easy Bloom’s: Knowledge AACSB: Analytic Topic: Demand Influences On Pricing Decisions Page: 163 Explanation: Demand
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Pricing strategies An enterprise should have a good pricing strategy which is suitable to the company’s current situation or condition in order to earn more profits. By adopting a good pricing strategy‚ company has a key option to stay viable. If a company wants to earn more profit‚ merely raising the price of a product is not a good option particularly in economy recession. It can lead a company to downfall as the company’s product lost out in the marketplace because of the price factor. Product
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The contents of this document are confidential and proprietary to Siebel Systems‚ Inc. Revision History: When Who What 11/17/2004 Rob Seaman Original creation 11/22/2004 Ashish Kothari Updates 3/22/2006 Jonathan Fan Updates Table of Contents Revision History: 2 Table of Contents 3 What This Is 4 Whom to Contact 4 Dynamic Pricing Procedure 4 Steps 4 Step Details 7 1. Check Header Price List 7 2. Raise Expired Error 8 3. Raise Not Effective
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Management Research Journal Vol. 2 ‚ Issue. 1 ‚ Oct 2013 ISSN :2319-7943 Impact Factor : 0.179 ORIGINAL ARTICLE “MONTCLAIR PAPER MILL’S EXPERIMENT WITH TARGET COSTING” – A CASE STUDY KISHOR NIVRUTTI JAGTAP M.Com.‚ M. Phil.‚ Ph.D.‚ M.B.A.‚ L.L.B.‚ D.T.L.‚ D.L.L.&L.W.‚ G.D.C.&A Smt. C. K. Goyal Arts and Commerce College‚ Dapodi‚ Pune Abstract: Target Costing is a disciplined process for determining and realizing a total cost at which a proposed product with specified functionality must
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Pricing Strategies Competition based pricing Setting the price based upon prices of the similar competitor products. Competitive pricing is based on three types of competitive products: * Products having lasting distinctiveness from competitor’s product. Here we can assume * The product has low price elasticity. * The product has low cross elasticity. * The demand for the product will rise. * Products have perishable distinctiveness from competitor’s product‚ assuming the product
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MANAGING TRANSFER PRICING Sarbanes-Oxley requires a company to establish that it has internal controls to ensure accurate financial reporting and that the auditor attest to the assessment of those controls. An obvious concern for all multinationals after SOX is whether there are effective controls in place to deal with transfer pricing exposure. An increasingly important element of transfer pricing documentation relates to the influence of legislation‚ ethical standards‚ and associated matters
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