Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a methodology that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. By using ABC to assign the overhead costs to each activity‚ the following steps should be followed: 1. Identify and define activities using interviews and surveys. Then build a list of activities. • Activity name-usually consists of an action verb and an object.
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better estimate costs‚ the company recently adopted an activity-based costing system. Last year‚ the company incurred $300‚000 in overhead costs. Based on an intense study of their company‚ the following activities‚ allocation bases‚ and percentages of overhead costs were determined: Activity | Allocation Base | Proportion of Overhead Cost | Purchasing | Number of purchase orders | 25% | Materials processing | Number of square feet | 50% | Sales | Number of sales orders | 25% | The number
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MARGINAL AND ABSORPTION COSTING Marginal costing is a technique in which production units are valued at marginal cost of production and fixed costs are written off as period costs. It follows that‚ stocks are valued using only the variable cost of production whereas fixed costs are treated as relating to the period and must be taken off in total. Management accounting is based on marginal costing. TERMINOLOGY USED. Gross contribution: Is the difference between sales value and variable costs
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Budgeting is used for forecasting‚ planning‚ coordination‚ communication‚ control and motivation. In the past few decades‚ considerable attention has been paid in particular to the role of management control of budgeting (Otley & Pollanen‚ 2000). In order to reveal the nature of budgeting at business organizational level‚ it would be best to begin by comparing budgeting with accounting. Budgeting and accounting have different meanings among managers‚ planners‚ and the personnel who use these. Both are
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LIFE CYCLE COSTING Life cycle costing (LCC) is the process of collecting‚ interpreting and analyzing data and using quantitative tools and techniques to predict the future resources that will be required in any life cycle of a system of interest. LCC can also be defined as a technique to establish the total cost of ownership. It is a structured approach addresses all the elements of this cost and can used to produce a spend profile of a product over its life span. The result of LCC usually
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Costing Methods Paper Yolanda Jones ACC/561 James Sullivan November 3‚ 2014 Costing Methods Paper Variable and absorption costing methods are two different costing methods. Almost all successful companies in the world use both methods. Variable costing and absorption costing cannot be substituted for one another because both the systems have their own benefits and limitations (Accounting for management). This paper will complete and discuss exercise 19-17 in Wiley Plus: it will discuss the following
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CHAPTER II MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 2.1 INDUSTRY PROFILE Manufacturing industry refers to those industries which involve in the manufacturing and processing of items and indulge in either creation of new commodities or in value addition. The manufacturing industry accounts for a significant share of the industrial sector in developed countries. The final products can either serve as a finished good for sale to customers or as intermediate goods used in the production process. 2.2
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COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING Target Costing at Toyota Akriti Kapoor 11PGDM003 Section A Introduction There are numerous differences between management practices in Western companies and companies in Japan. One of the main differences is related to cost reduction. A manager in Europe or the United States generally expects to use cost information to make decisions about pricing and investments‚ while a Japanese manager expects to use cost information to control costs. Toyota uses cost
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1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the target costing system? Strengths: ● Target cost system is ideal for assembly-oriented industries with great involvement in the diversification of product lines‚ usage of technologies of factory automation‚ development of systems for reducing cost during all the stages of product’s life cycle such as is the case of Nissan Motor 1 . ● Since Nissan cost system is continuously undergoing modification and improving processes to ensure high productivity
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