COMMUNITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM EDEXCEL LEVEL 7 BTEC PROFESSIONAL HIGHER NATIONAL IN BUSINESS UNIT TITLE: UNIT 13 COURSE TITLE: MANAGING FINANCIAL PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES NAME OF CANDIDATE: DATE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE: 20th November 2012 TUTOR: S. M. Azeem Please‚ ensure you sign the statement of authentication and follow the notes given at the end of the assignment PREAMBLE
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Moderation required: yes/no Date _______________ Tutor______________________ Name- Mohammed Bhuiyan ID-000668860 “ABC is still relevant for companies in all geographical locations – critically discuss” The theory of activity based costing (ABC) was developed in 1970’s to understand the product and customer cost and profitability based on the production or performing process in the manufacturing center of United State (Glad & Becker‚ 1996). Later‚ it got the reorganization after
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Running head: ACTIVITY BASED COSTING CASE Activity Based Costing Case David Welch University of Phoenix Accounting Capstone ACC/594 Tom Myers February 1‚ 2010 The selection of the right cost calculation method is of critical importance when it comes to determining the real product profitability. Activity Based Costing is one approach that can be used. Activity based costing is a managerial accounting system that determines the cost of activities without distortion and provides management
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Activity-based costing in restaurants 1. Introduction Interest in cost and management accounting practices in the restaurant industry is rising (Raab et al.‚ 2009; Annaraud et al.‚ 2008). Pavesic (1985) has initiated research in pricing and cost accounting for restaurants‚ introducing the concept of profit factor (PF) in menu engineering (ME). Prior studies‚ such as the one presented in Chan and Au (1998) investigate the implications of not incorporating overhead costs in menu-item profitability
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1) A well-designed activity-based costing system starts with __________. A. analyzing the activities performed to manufacture a product B. assigning manufacturing overhead costs for each activity cost pool to products C. computing the activity-based overhead rate D. identifying the activity-cost pools 2) "Generally accepted" in the phrase generally accepted accounting principles means that the principles __________. A. have been approved for use by the managements of business
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1. Describe when it is appropriate for a company to use a job-order costing system. Answer Job order cost system provides per unit cost of manufactured products. Job order cost system is used by the companies that manufacture custom products for customers or batches of similar products. Job order cost system is used in the companies that offer many different products or services to its customers. Example Industries where job order cost system is used are Furniture manufacturing‚ Apparel manufacturing
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Systems Thinking and Kaizen: Tools for Hospital Pharmacy Process Improvement Abstract With increasing operation costs‚ patient safety awareness‚ and a shortage of trained personnel‚ it is becoming increasingly important for hospital pharmacy management to make good operational decisions. In the case of hospital inpatient pharmacies‚ making decisions about staffing and work flow is difficult due to the complexity of the
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References Accountingexplained.com. 2014. Activity-Based Costing | Steps | Example. [online] Available at: http://accountingexplained.com/managerial/cost-systems/activity-based-costing [Accessed: 25 Mar 2014]. Accountlearning.blogspot.co.uk. 2014. Advantages And Disadvantages Of Activity-Based Costing(ABC) | Account-Management-Economics. [online] Available at: http://accountlearning.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/advantages-and-disadvantages-of_06.html [Accessed: 25 Mar 2014]. Accountlearning.blogspot
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unsuccessful competitive bids due to the inherent deficiencies of their existing costing system. This has illustrated the importance of obtaining a thorough understanding of costs‚ and desirability of implementing a superior costing system. This report contains: * A general overview of the problems confronted by JDCW * An analysis of the current standard costing system * An exposition of Activity Based Costing (ABC) * An evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of each system
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controller of Winjum Company had described that firm’s variable costing system‚ which charged fixed overhead to income as a period expense and treated only variable production costs as inventoriable product costs. Winjum’s controller had stressed that‚ other things being equal‚ variable costing caused income to move with sales only‚ rather than being affected by both sales and production volume as was the case with full absorption costing systems. Wilcox decided to recast the June and July income
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