What is Just in Time (JIT)? Solution: Just in Time can be defined as an inventory strategy that is employed by an organization to increase the efficiency and also reduce the waste by receiving the goods only when they are actually required. This can help in reducing the inventory costs. This method will be most useful when the management is able to accurately forecast the demand. JIT stands for just in time‚ and this is an approach which is used in inventory valuation. It is a system which ensures
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PROCESS COSTING DR. ALOK DIXIT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT LUCKNOW COSTING SYSTEMS USED TO DETERMINE PRODUCT COSTS Costing Systems Process Costing Job-order Costing Mass production of identical or similar products (at process-level). For example‚ Sugar‚ food‚ chemical industry. Many units of a single‚ homogeneous product flow evenly through continuous production process(s). One unit of product is indistinguishable (at process-level) from any other unit of product. Each unit
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AN IDEAL APPROACH TO STANDARD COSTING By Jitesh Chandak INTRODUCTION Before you start your study on standard costing you must be clear in your mind that you are going to study a chapter which wants more practice and hard work to develop a strong and sound concept. Costing can be defined as “The technique and process of ascertaining costs.” Standard costing is a technique‚ which uses standards for cost and revenue for the purpose of control through
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Defining‚ Modeling & Costing IT Services Integrating Service Level‚ Configuration & Financial Management Processes In our cost driven economy IT is facing increasing pressure to account for and reduce cost wherever possible. The old axiom “You must do more with less” has never had such an impact on IT operations and support as it does today. Thousands of IT managers are being placed in a situation which forces them to defend their staffing levels against both internal as well as external threats
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1.0 Life cycle costing (LCC) 1.1 Definition Life cycle costing is a cost management approach which includes all costs and ensures that all those costs are managed over the life cycle of the product. Product life cycle begins from conception of the product until its abandonment which can be referred as ‘from cradle to grave‘. Product life cycle has four stages: 1) Product planning and initial concept design It involves process of identifying any underlying conditions‚ assumption‚ limitations and
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An introduction to Android What is Android? Android brings Internet-style innovation and openness to mobile phones. Android delivers a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system‚ middle ware and key mobile applications. The Android Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available. Open Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It was built to be truly open
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Send Print Share ABC: too much activity and not enough costing? by Brian Rutherford 03 Feb 2001 Diploma in Financial Management Relevant to Paper D2 | | Activity based costing (ABC) hit the world of financial management with a very large bang in the late 1980s. Within a few years 20% of the UK’s largest companies were using‚ or at least piloting‚ ABC systems. By the turn of the millennium‚ however‚ the proportion of adopters was no higher‚ while one third of those adopting the technique
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National University Of Co mputer & Emerg ing Sciences-Isla ma ba d Operating Systems Spring 2012 Lab-Assignment2 Deadline: Tuesday 13th March‚ 2012 12:00 PM GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Programming can be done in either C or C++. Submissions should include the annotated source code. Programs that will not be executed will get a low grade. Make sure your programs do not crash when given bad input‚ but instead provide warning messages Copy cases will get NEGATIVE MARKS SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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What are the criteria for classifying a lease as operating or capital? Why is there a difference between the two? What are the implications of an operating lease versus a capital lease on an entity’s financial statements? The criteria and characteristics of operating lease is that operating lease usually a shorter-term lease under which the lessor is responsible for insurance‚ taxes‚ and upkeep. May be cancelable by the lessee on short notice. The criteria and characteristics of capital lease
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PROCESS COSTING-SINGLE DEPARTMENT INTRODUCTION In process costing system‚ a large number of homogenous products passed through several production departments where each department is responsible for one or more operations that bring a product one step closer to completion. In each department‚ materials‚ labor and overhead inputs may be needed and upon completion of a particular process‚ the partially completed goods are transferred to another process. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF JOB ORDER
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