Quiz 2 Answers (10 POINTS) Question 1 (2 points) The Hansen Company has 3 product lines of tires - X‚ Y‚ and Z with contribution margins of $3‚ $5‚ and $7 respectively. Management expects a sales mix as follows: 90‚000 units of tire X‚ 60‚000 units of tire Y‚ and 50‚000 tires of Z in September 2009. Hansen’s fixed costs are expected to be $552‚000 for the same month. 1. Determine the breakeven point in units for X‚ Y‚ and Z respectively 2. Determine the operating income at a total sales level
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Cost Accounting Cost accounting is a step further to and a refinement of financial accounting in which cost of manufacturing and selling each product or job or rendering service is determined‚ not at the time of accounting period but at the time when the product is manufactured or any service is rendered. In simple words‚ costing is a systematic procedure for determining the unit cost of output produced or services rendered. It provides for an analysis of the expenditure which enables the management to
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9:40 M Page 9 PART I Purpose of Cost Accounting 9 CH01_Bragg_36794 3/13/01 9:40 M Page 10 CH01_Bragg_36794 3/13/01 9:40 M Page 11 CHAPTER 1 Role of Cost Accounting When properly implemented‚ the cost accounting function can have a pervasive influence in the modern corporation. Unfortunately‚ it is not always properly implemented because management often is not completely aware of all the uses to which the cost accounting function can be put. This chapter describes
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Requirement 1 (a) Johnson’s believes that the transfer from the Cushion Division to the Furniture Division should be at market price rather than at cost however this depends on the capacity of the Cushion Division. Johnson’s believes that the transfer from the Cushion Division to the Furniture Division should be at market price rather than at cost however‚ if there is no idle or spare capacity in Cushion Division the market price minus the corresponding variable selling expense would be the
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research mentions that the term of strategic management accounting was first coined by Simmonds (1981). Who defined it as the provision and analysis of information about a business and its competitors for use in developing and monitoring the business strategy? However‚ in the contemporary business environment‚ organizations are experiencing greater challenges‚ increased competition and rapid diffusion of knowledge. (2) Traditionally management accounting has been characterised as providing information
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CORRECT All of the following would be classified as manufacturing overhead except the: A) wages of supervisor of the machining shop. B) depreciation of the equipment in the machining shop. C) property taxes relating to the building that houses the machining shop. D) All of the above would be classified as manufacturing overhead. Feedback: The correct answer is D (Learning Objective 1): Manufacturing overhead includes all manufacturing costs except direct
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a) COST ACCOUNTING Cost accounting system is the part of management accounting that makes budget‚ actual cost of operations‚ analysis of variance and profitability of social use of funds. Cost accounting helps the manager in decision making regarding the reduction of the cost of the company and in improving the profitability. Cost accounting system is primarily used for internal managers therefore it does not need to follow the standards of GAAP. Cost accounting is also considered very important
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International Journal of Trade‚ Economics and Finance‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 2‚ August‚ 2010 2010-023X Factors Influencing Activity-Based Costing Success: A Research Framework Zhang Yi Fei and Che Ruhana Isa becoming more and more popular [3-7] ABC aims to provide accurate costing information to managers to allocate activity costs to products and services by applying cost drivers [8]. Academics who advocate ABC‚ such as‚ Cooper and Kaplan [9]‚ and Swenson [10] argue that it provides more accurate cost
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Capital Structure Analysis Formula Debt-to-Equity Ratio = Total Liabilities / Equity. Formula Interest Coverage Ratio = Non-current Liabilities / Cash Flow from operations Formula Debt Coverage Ratio = Earnings Before Interest and Tax / Net Finance Expense Analysis The debt-to-equity ratios indicate how risky the firms are. It measures the extent that the assets of a firm are financed by its debts and equity. Lower values of debt-to-equity ratio are favorable indicating the firm
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Benchmarking‚ Strategic Cost Management‚ Total Quality Management and Six Sigma. These developments had a vast impact on the overall usage of cost accounting. Accountants have been found to be the first to resist change‚ and the failure to various ABC and scorecard projects has been linked to the unwillingness of accountants themselves to see the project through. Despite all the positive results in the past‚ it appears that the adoption of advanced management accounting practices has slowed. The
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