overhead? Direct labor is a valid basis for allocating overhead when: (a) direct labor constitutes a significant part of total product cost‚ and (b) there is a high correlation between direct labor and changes in the amount of overhead costs. 2. What has happened in recent industrial history to reduce the usefulness of direct labor as the library basis for allocating overhead to products? Recently in the industries‚ the amount of direct labor in many sectors has been affected and greatly
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Managerial Economics & Business Strategy Chapter 4 The Theory of Individual Behavior Michael R. Baye‚ Managerial Economics and Business Strategy‚ 6e. ©The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ 2008 Overview I. Consumer Behavior Indifference Curve Analysis Consumer Preference Ordering II. Constraints The Budget Constraint Changes in Income Changes in Prices III. Consumer Equilibrium IV. Indifference Curve Analysis & Demand Curves Individual Demand Market Demand Michael R. Baye‚ Managerial
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Current Ethical Issues in Managerial Accounting No company can nowadays afford to function alone. Partnerships are increasingly getting important and the effective exchange of information can determine profit or loss. An important method to cope with the increasing complexity is called supply chain management (SCM). It is enterprise-wide planning‚ management and control of all logistics tasks in the value chain. I decided to choose this topic because I had the chance to work with the system
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CHAPTER 9 Three conditions for a market to be perfectly competitive? Many buyers and sellers‚ with all firms selling identical products‚ and no barriers to new firms entering the market. In perfectly competitive markets‚ prices are determined by The interaction of market demand and supply because firms and consumers are price takers. Price taker Buyer or seller that is unable to affect the market price. A buyer or seller that takes the market price as given When are firms likely to be
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COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATION QUESTION 1 ABC Bhd uses material X which obtain from an outside supplier. Each delivery of material X consists of 30‚000 kg at a cost of RM5 per kg. The cost of ordering is RM10 per order. The lead time for delivery can vary between 12 and 18 days and the rate of usage of material X also varies between 320 and 480 kg per day. Stockholding cost amount to 9% per annum of the average stockholding value. Required: Calculate the following: |Re-order level in kg
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Chapter 1 The Problem and Its Background Introduction Everyone is aware that Information Technology (IT) has played a very significant role in taking bussinesses and educational institutions to new heights. Before the advent of computers and relevant technology‚ business and information management were totally done using manual resources. As a result‚ the time taken to complete a task was more‚ quality of work was not up to the mark‚ and the procedures also tended to be more complicated (Rampur
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Galilee College Managerial Accounting Final Exam Overview for Saturday June 8th Instructions A. Complete the budgeting questions and any one of the others. 1. Service Cost Allocations CLASS: Teck Tecky Water Services provides water for Departments A‚B and C and has prepared its total budget using the following information for the next year:- Fixed Costs $300‚000 Budgeted Gallon Usage:- Variable Costs $0.10 per gallon Dept. A 2‚500‚000 gallons Available capacity 10‚000
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Chapter 7: Cash and Receivables When looking at the FASB codification‚ there are two main sections to examine about the transfers of receivables. The first section is 860-10 Transfers and Servicing‚ and the second section to consider would be 310-10 which is Receivables Overall. When finding other examples of continuing involvement‚ I looked into section 860-10-55. In section 860-10-10-1 it listed the objectives for reporting transfers of receivables. When searching for these objectives‚ it
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Rahul Balhara Accounting and Finance: Managerial Use and Analysis MAR12 Sec C Financial Statement Analysis Project -- A Comparative Analysis of Kohl’s Corporation and J.C. Penney Co MAR12 Sec C Analysis of Kohl’s Corporation and J.C. Penney Corporation J.C. Penney was founded by James Cash Penney in 1902. This Plano‚ Texas based company is presently providing family apparel and footwear‚ accessories‚ jewelries‚ beauty products and home furnishings via 1‚100 department stores as of
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Compare assigned costs per product under both methods. Why has Activity-based costing changed the total costs assigned to each product? By comparing the two cost assigned methods‚ there are some differences existed: Unit Product Cost: | Gadgets | Smidgets | Smadgets | Smadgets | Traditional Costing Method | 400 | 1‚000 | 1‚350 | 850 | Activity-Based Costing Method | 590 | 1‚100 | 760 | 1‚250 | Overhead Cost | Widgets | Gadgets | Smidgets | Smadgets | Traditional Costing Method | 200‚000 |
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