overhead allocation rate using the 1987 model year budget. Calculate the overhead allocation rate for each of the model years 1988 through 1990. Are the changes since 1987 in overhead allocation rates significant? Why have these changes occurred? Solution: Based on the given info we calculate Overhead Allocation Rate =Overhead for PeriodAllocation Base for Period for each allocation bases vis. Sales‚ Direct Material and Direct Labor Year | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | Sales | $330‚154 | $351
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preparation. Identify Issues Analyze Data Build Model Run Model Make Decision Management Accounting: Decision-making The Corporate Environment: Corporations are a conglomeration of people with a common purpose. The individuals seek to attain goals for the corporation‚ with the ultimate goal being profitability. In order to achieve this goal‚ management performs a variety of activities. 1) 2) 3) Planning: strategically deciding how‚ where and when to use the firm’s limited resources Directing
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Chapter 1 Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making Solutions to Review Questions 1-1. Financial accounting is designed to provide information about the firm to external users. External users include investors‚ creditors‚ government authorities‚ regulators‚ customers‚ competitors‚ suppliers‚ labor unions‚ and so on. Cost accounting systems are designed to provide information to internal users (managers). This difference is important‚ because it affects the design of the systems. Financial
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Q1: There are two different types of cost accounting systems: Job order cost systems and process cost systems. How does management decide whether to use a job order cost system or a process cost system in any given manufacturing situation? Explain. Job order cost system is used in situations where many different products are produced each period. For example‚ a Levi Strauss clothing factory would typically make many different types of jeans for both men and women during a month. A particular order
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Time Value of Money Q1. Mr. Sundaram is planning to retire this year. His company can pay him a lump sum retirement payments of Rs 2‚ 00‚000 or Rs 25‚000 life time annuity whichever he chooses. Mr. Sundaram is in good health and estimates to live for at least 20 more years. If his interest rate is 12%‚ which alternative should he choose? Ans Present Value of Annuity 25000*7.469*1.12 = 2‚09‚132 Which is greater than lump sum value of Rs. 2‚00‚000. So Annuity option is better
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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 1. A mixed cost function has a constant component of $20‚000. If the total cost is $60‚000 and the independent variable has the value 200‚ what is the value of the slope coefficient? a. $200 b. $400 c. $600 d. $40‚000 2. [CMA Adapted] Of the following methods‚ the one that would not be appropriate for analyzing how a specific cost behaves is a. the scattergraph method. b. the industrial engineering approach. c. linear programming. d. statistical regression analysis.
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Chapter 9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objective 1 9-2 Learning objective 1 • List and explain five purposes of budgeting systems. Purposes of Budgeting Systems Budget Budget a detailed plan‚ expressed in quantitative terms‚ that specifies how resources will be acquired and used during a specified period of time. 1. Planning 2. Facilitating Communication and Coordination 3
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certain that the marriage wouldn’t last‚ and expected Chris would be back any day. But time is passing quickly‚ and there is still no word from the desert. The President‚ desperately needing the budget completed‚ has approached you‚ a management accounting student‚ for help in preparing the budget for the coming fiscal year. Your conversations with the President and your investigations of the company’s records have revealed the following information: 1. Peak months for sales correspond with gift-giving
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$420‚000 Work in process $120‚000 Finished goods $1‚030‚000 Cost of goods sold $2‚770‚000 Required: 1. Compute the company’s predetermined overhead rate for the year. 2. Compute the underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year. 3. Assume the company closes any underapplied or overapplied overhead directly to cost of goods sold. Prepare the appropriate entry. Will this entry increase or decrease net operating income? PROBLEM 2-22B Schedules of Cost of Goods Manufactured
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Assignment 3 Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 a) It would be beneficial for the company as a whole if logs were transferred to the Sawing Division at the suggested price of $61.50 per log. CM from selling externally = $75 - $40.50 - $9.50 = $25/unit $25 x 10‚000 units = $250‚000 CM from selling to Sawing division = $122-Trasnfer costs from Harvesting-Production costs = $122-40.50-9.50-35-4.5-2.5 = $30/unit $30 x 10‚000 units = $300‚000 $300‚000 - $250‚000 = $50‚000 The CM is greater
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