Chapter 1—Introduction to Cost Management LEARNING OBJECTIVES |LO 1 |What are the relationships among financial‚ management‚ and cost accounting? | |LO 2 |What are two common organizational strategies? | |LO 3 |What is a value chain‚ and what are the major value chain functions? | |LO 4
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Difference between historical cost and fair value accounting In order to make the most profitable and rational decisions entity’s stakeholders have to evaluate organisation’s financial statements. Today’s world of rapidly changing prices has made it difficult to estimate what something is actually worth. Thus leading to debates at what price – historical costing price or market value – assets and liabilities should be reported. Therefore‚ before making any evaluations about reported transactions
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Article Critique Costanza‚ Robert‚ et al. “A True Cost Accounting Approach to Nuclear.” Triple Pundit: People‚ Planet‚ Profit. 5 Apr 2011. 6 Aug 2011. In his article‚ “A True Cost Accounting Approach to Nuclear‚” Robert Costanza first presents the example of hidden clean up costs of the nuclear disaster in the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan. The cost of which are paid in large part by the national government and taxpayers rather than the industry. Costanza explains
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ACCOUNTING FOR BUSINESS II CHAPTER 1 COST SHEET Meaning And Scope of Cost Accountancy The term cost accountancy is wider than the term cost accounting. According to the Terminology of Management and Financial Accountancy Published by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants‚ London‚ cost accountancy means‚ “the application of costing and cost accounting principles‚ methods and techniques to the science‚ art and practice of cost control. It includes the presentation of information derived
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Solutions to Review Questions Accounting assigns costs and revenues to “responsibility centers” that correspond to the decision authority of managers. This allows the firm to measure performance based on the results of decisions by the manager. An effective corporate cost allocation system separates the results of decisions by corporate managers from those of business unit managers. Although there are well-developed standards for many accounting transactions‚ accounting decisions still depend on the
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the recognition and rewards of their employees to the entire balanced scorecard. Levi Strauss would need to review the incentives of the employees from cash flow focus to the balanced scorecard described above. Once the linking of objectives to critical success factors and KPIs has been completed‚ options for the implementation phase need to be developed considering the gaps that were identified in the SWOT analysis. Steyn & Schmikl (2016) mention that the strategic options are used to select the
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The following essay explains the importance of cost accounting for stakeholders of Multinational Companies‚ particularly the shareholders & the customers. Who are the stakeholders of an organization? according to (Freeman 1984) stakeholder is “any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the firm’s objectives” going by this definition stakeholders of a company would include lenders‚ creditors‚ customers‚ shareholders‚ government‚ media‚ political groups‚ local charities
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Your model should look like this: Now with the cost drivers in place‚ we are ready to calculate Auntie Wuni’s monthly costs. • Leave a row under the Spaghetti: Px/box row and create a subtitle ‘Total Cost of Ingredients’ in cell B28 • Hit Ctrl-B on cell B28 to render the title in bold • Starting from cell B29 and moving downwards‚ populate the cells in this section simply with the name of the ingredients‚ i.e. Oil; Tomatoes; Rice; Pepper; Fish; Cow-leg; Beans; Spaghetti. • Now move the
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“To what extent does the ECPI in Singapore reflect the cost of living in my household?” In this essay I shall answer the research question: “To what extent does the ECPI in Singapore reflect the increasing cost of living in my household?” I will be evaluating the accuracy of a consumer price index in documenting the changing cost of living in my household‚ while comparing the two different baskets of goods relating to contrasting demographics. The scope for my investigation is limited to Singapore
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Cost Benefit Analysis A cost benefit analysis is important because it can help us decide what would be the total expenditure on a particular project along with the expected returns from the project. From a cost benefit analysis‚ it is easy to decide whether implementing the project will be a profitable deal for the organization or not. It is through the examples of this process that we can get a clear idea of how to proceed with this calculation. Definition As said above‚ a cost benefit
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