manufacturing facility in North Carolina. Data concerning these products appear below: Total fixed expenses are $400‚000 per year. All three products are sold in highly competitive markets‚ so the company is unable to raise its prices without losing unacceptable numbers of customers. The company has an extremely effective lean production system‚ so there are no beginning or ending work in process or finished goods inventories. Required: 1. What is the company’s over-all break-even point
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CHAPTER 5 PRODUCT AND SERVICE COSTING: A PROCESS SYSTEMS APPROACH LEARNING OBJECTIVES AFTER STUDYING THIS CHAPTER‚ YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO: 1. Describe the basic characteristics of process costing‚ including cost flows‚ journal entries‚ and the cost of production report. 2. Describe process costing for settings without work-in-process inventories. 3. Define equivalent units‚ and explain their role in process costing. 4. Prepare a departmental production report using the FIFO method
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Business Ethics in Managerial Accounting When companies don’t see the importance of business ethics in managerial accounting they usually end up down the same road as Enron: bankrupt. And while that isn’t always true‚ the importance of business ethics in managerial accounting cannot be understated if you want your company to be a success. Why Ethics Is Important in Managerial Accounting The Enron scandal is probably the most well-known example of improper accounting ethics on the part
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entire company. Managerial accounting is primarily used by individuals within a company or organization. The main purpose of financial accounting is to prepare financial reports that provide information about an organization’s performance to external parties like creditors‚ investors and tax authorities (Hilton‚ 2006). There are several key differences between both managerial and financial accounting. The first key difference is in the purpose of each method. For example‚ managerial accountings’
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and 2. Planning to use the drivers of costs in those activities in the most efficient way. 8-2 At the start of an accounting period‚ a larger percentage of fixed overhead costs are locked-in than is the case with variable overhead costs. When planning fixed overhead costs‚ a company must choose the appropriate level of capacity or investment that will benefit the company over a long time. This is a strategic decision. 8-3 The key differences are how direct costs are traced to a cost object
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Managerial Accounting‚ 3e (Braun/Tietz) Chapter 2 Building Blocks of Managerial Accounting 1) Service companies must carry a large amount of inventory to meet consumer demand. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 LO: 2-1 EOC: E2-1 AACSB: Reflective Thinking Learning Outcome: Define and use cost-volume-profit analysis to analyze the effects of changes in costs and volume on a company’s profits 2) Manufacturing companies usually have three types of inventory. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 LO: 2-1
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CASES FROM MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES Table of Contents Case 1: Case 2: Bal Seal Engineering Robin Cooper Bill’s Custom Planters William Stammerjohan Deborah Seifert Dublin Shirt Company Peter Clarke in assoc. with in assoc. with Paul Juras Wayne Bremser ECN.W William Lawler Endesa Gary M. Cunningham Scott Ericksen Francisco J. Lopez Lubian Antonio Pareja Kincaid Manufacturing Jon Yarusso Ram Ramanan Osram.NA John Shank Lawrence Carr William Lawler Pleasant Run Children’s Home Brooke E. Smith
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The purpose of this report is discussing the case of Wilkerson Company that confronting tough competition in price cutting in pumps which caused to a big drop of pre-tax operating income from 10% to 3%. After observing the existing costing allocation‚ we found out there is an issue on the existing costing report that the manager could not be able to see the real situation. In light of this‚ there will be brought to the discussion on the feasibility of using an alternative costing method – Activity
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The Wilson Company Case 2 Joy has recently acquired a new job with a manufacturing company‚ The Wilson Company. She had moved up the managerial ladder from a first line manager‚ to a middle manager position. This was a big step for Joy‚ however the magnitude of the change was bothering her. Not only did Joy step up a notch in the managerial world‚ she switched worlds from sales to manufacturing. Joy’s new job had some similarities‚ however she was more focused on the differences (which she did not
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While I was looking for an appropriate topic for research‚ I found an interesting publication‚ which fitted best to the subject (ethics in managerial accounting issues) and also included 5 good examples examples of possible problems associated with the field. The method of the study seemed unclear‚ especially considering the connection between the serial number of a dollar bill and the question to which the respondent had to answer in the end (in my work I will constantly refer back to the text
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