of a real business is AJINOMOTO (MALAYSIA) BERHAD. Ajinomoto is the world’s largest manufacturer of aspartame‚ sold the trade name Aminosweet.It is acquired its aspartame business in 2000 from Monsanto for US$67 million. There are few types of inventories in an ajinomoto manufacturing business :(a) Raw materials – these are components that are purchased from suppliers‚ such as garlic‚ chili flakes and corn syrup ; (b) Work-in-progress – these are the partly-completed products in the various stages
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Sales and Inventory Control is an inventory tracking system that gives you up-to-the-minute detailed information on each item in your inventory. You’ll know exactly how much inventory comes in‚ how much is on-hand now‚ and where it goes. While manual methods may have their place‚ most entrepreneurs these days find that computerizing gives them a far wider range of information with far less effort. Sales and inventory programs now on the market let you track usage‚ monitor changes in unit costs‚ calculate
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TECHNIQUES FOR INVENTORY CONTROL: THE NEED FOR INVENTORY In industry‚ inventory means ’stock of goods’. It may mean raw materials‚ work-in-progress‚ maintenance materials‚ processed and semi-processed materials‚ oils‚ fuels and lubricants as well as finished and semi-finished goods. They may be either in solid‚ liquid or gaseous form‚ required for future use‚ mainly in the production process as in the case of finished goods for re-sale. In any case‚ it is an idle resource having an economic value
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successful cost reduction programmes In the current economic climate‚ most organisations must face up to a prolonged period of extreme competition and funding restrictions. This is particularly the case if the past few years have been focused on growth‚ service improvement or reorganisation (i.e. cost efficiency has not been a recent priority). Such pressures require an approach that reduces costs in a strategic‚ disciplined‚ and sustainable manner - delivered at pace. In our view serious cost reduction
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The historical cost accounting is an accounting technique that values an asset for balance sheet purposes at the price paid for the asset at the time of its acquisition. It is usually used in combination with other measurement bases. For example‚ inventories are usually carried at the lower of cost and net realizable value‚ on the other hand marketable securities are usually carried at market value‚ and entities prefer to carry pension liabilities at their present value. The main advantage of using
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PRINCIPLES OF COST CONTROL 1.1 Introduction Cost is important to all industry. Costs can be divided into two general classes; absolute costs and relative costs. Absolute cost measures the loss in value of assets. Relative cost involves a comparison between the chosen course of action and the course of action that was rejected. This cost of the alternative action - the action not taken - is often called the "opportunity cost". The accountant is primarily concerned with the absolute cost. However‚
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Chapter I I. INTRODUCTION Knowing a business’ inventory in small scale business may be hard task and can be inaccurate at times especially if you maintain it manually. Maintaining records on these sheets of papers is time-consuming and it takes a lot of patience to do so. Misappropriation of these records will result to misplacement and damages. Possible errors and shortage and overage will also occur most of the times. Hence‚ manually recording sales where there is a rapid change in technology
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The Great Inventory Correction 2001 Edward Teach Group member: Huynh Quang Vu Le Huu Dien Le Thi Phuong Tu Pham Duc Hai Tran Ho Thanh Dong GSCM – Group 3 1 Outline • Summary • Answers to case questions • Conclusion • Q&A GSCM – Group 3 2 Case summary I • the remedy = rethinking of supply chain management at large networking‚ telecom equipment‚ PC and chipmakers • Consequences: huge amount of write-off or write-down of inventory + at Cisco : 2.25 billion dollar +
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entrepreneurs should get out into the world and create and maintain business relationships. AIM Global INC. is a marketing company conceptualized to provide unmatched quality distribution of exceptional products and services to local‚ regional and global markets. A harmony of advanced technology‚ distinct marketing strategies and excellent product lines‚ together with the guidance of exemplary leadership secures the success of AIM Global. Knowing for its success Mr. Richard Cabautan joined the team of AIM
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Cost of Capital questions and practice problems Questions 1. What does the WACC measure? 2. Which is easier to calculate directly‚ the expected rate of return on the assets of a firm or the expected rate of return on the firm’s debt and equity? Assume you are an outsider to the firm. 3. Why are market-based weights important? 4. Why is the coupon rate of existing debt irrelevant for finding the cost of debt capital? 5. Under what assumptions can the WACC be
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