Chapter 18 ADDITIONAL ASPECTS OF PRODUCT COSTING SYSTEMS Changes from Tenth Edition Chapter 18 was modified to include discussions of customer-related and business-related cost drivers and recent evidence about the usage and success of activity-based cost systems. Approach Our treatment of job costing and process costing is as brief as we can make it and still get the general points across. Students do need to understand the general idea of these cost accumulation procedures; otherwise
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Case 19-3: Brisson Company Approach This problem takes the student through a complete cycle of transactions in a standard cost system in a simple setting. It shows how such a system works‚ including the development of variances‚ and ties cost accounting to the accounting cycle the student learned in Part 1 of the book. (Brisson’s system is the same as the one depicted in Illustration 19-2.) This seems to be a valuable exercise‚ especially in helping to minimize the omnipresent problems students
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1. According to the case‚ if using ABC‚ Wilkerson should pool overheads into five activities: machine-related expenses‚ setup labor cost‚ receiving and production control cost‚ engineering cost‚ and packaging and shipping cost. The cost pool/cost driver information for an Activity Based Costing (ABC) system for Wilkerson has already provided by table 1. Based on the information on table 1 and four exhibit in case‚ we can figure out that the total cost per unit of valves‚ pumps and flow controllers
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The Western Company is a public utility holding company which builds and helps to operate electric generating plants across the world. Western is facing increasing competition as the utility industry moves toward deregulation. In the past Western has relied on engineers to make key decisions in the area of capital budgeting selecting projects with the lowest present value of future costs. This is a continuation of the previous case in which the managers are now using the actual company projects to
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series of events‚ Atomic Company has enjoyed a sharp increase in sales of their Tiger Pants line. The most obvious and immediate pains being felt by management is the inability to predict future sales and the high amount being paid out in sales commissions. While these are legitimate concerns‚ I believe deeper problems exist. The current sales structure divides independent sales representatives into different product lines and territories. This means that an Atomic Company retailer carrying four
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Introduction A brilliant company that produces a diverse range of a product is prone to run in to trouble if the processes are not well designed‚ inefficient quality measures prevail and decision making is more prone to ad hoc basis rather than a standardized process. Blitz Company‚ an organization distinguished for its capability to cater the diverse needs of their customers‚ not only on basis of design features but also lot size‚ has been facing a cumulative number of issues. To name a few‚ these
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XPO Logistics‚ Inc. (XPO) BRADLEY S. JACOBS is the Chief Executive Officer of XPO Logistics‚ Inc. A career CEO‚ he has led two public companies. United Rentals‚ Inc.‚ which he cofounded in 1997; and United Waste Systems‚ Inc.‚ founded in 1989. Mr. Jacobs served as Chairman and CEO of United Rentals for the company’s first six years‚ and as Executive Chairman for an additional four years. He served eight years as Chairman and CEO of United Waste Systems. Previously‚ Mr. Jacobs founded Hamilton Resources
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to drop significantly. When a company has a favorable ratio‚ it indicates that company may have a good credit risk. A company that has other debt such as bank loans‚ the company is required to a maintain a debt-to-equity-ratio commonly known as a debt covenants (Wright‚ n.d.) An example of an off-balance sheet financing are operating leases. When a company has operating leases‚ the lessor will only keep the asset on the company’s balance sheet‚ whereas‚ the company leasing the asset is only responsible
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Nike has a 25-years publicly traded debt‚ which still has 20 years to maturity‚ so we calculate the YTM of this debt as 7.17%2. Another way to calculate the cost of debt is to use its rating and a typical default spread‚ since Nike is a rated company. Its rating in 2001 is A13
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SITUATION ANALYSIS The Rose Company has selected James Pierce to become the General Manager for the Jackson Plant‚ a position newly developed in order to assess the effectiveness of decentralizing operations. In the new model for the plant‚ rather than managing departments and reporting through different function channels‚ Jackson’s internal operations will report to Pierce. The Rose Company is currently building a new plant in the region with the expectation that it will reduce production cost
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