Cost Accounting‚ 14e (Horngren/Datar/Rajan) Chapter 2 An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes Objective 2.1 1) Cost objects include: A) products B) customers C) departments D) All of these answers are correct. Answer: D Diff: 2 Terms: cost object Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 2) Actual costs are: A) the costs incurred B) budgeted costs C) estimated costs D) forecasted costs Answer: A Diff: 1 Terms: actual costing Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 3) The general term used to identify
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80000 | Cost of oxygen etc. | 30000 | Diagnostic Services | 50000 | Medicines Supplied | 200000 | Depreciation | 38500 | Insurance | 15000 | Power‚ Fuel & Water | 20000 | The profit expected is 30% on cost. 1) Calculate the price per patient day. 2) Calculate P/L per patient day. Solution: No of Patient days is as below: 30 beds * 150 days = 4500 Patient days 10 beds * 50 days = 500 Patient days Total patient days = 5000 Patient days Operating Cost Sheet
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The Problem of Social Cost I. The Problem to Be Examined1 This paper is concerned with those actions of business firms which have harmful effects on others. The standard example is that of a factory the smoke from which has harmful effects on those occupying neighboring properties. The economic analysis of such a situation has usually proceeded in terms of a divergence between the private and social product of the factory‚ in which economists have largely followed the treatment of Pigou in
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Full Cost Accounting What is full cost accounting? What are the advantages and disadvantages of full cost accounting? Full cost accounting is defined as being the practice of collecting and presenting all of the costs that are connected with the production of a product or a service. Some of these costs can be described as direct‚ indirect‚ and variable costs‚ though they may vary by business. Full cost accounting has several advantages when used appropriately. It can lead to better and
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Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems 1. Jennifer Trucking Company operates a large rig transportation business in Texas that transports locally grown vegetables to San Diego‚ California. The company owns 5 large rigs and hires local drivers paid fixed salaries monthly‚ regardless of the number of trips or tons of cargo that each driver transports each month. The below table presents details about the number of drivers and the total cargo transported by the company at different
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Cost Benefit Analysis A cost benefit analysis is important because it can help us decide what would be the total expenditure on a particular project along with the expected returns from the project. From a cost benefit analysis‚ it is easy to decide whether implementing the project will be a profitable deal for the organization or not. It is through the examples of this process that we can get a clear idea of how to proceed with this calculation. Definition As said above‚ a cost benefit
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Collaborations are unlikely to last as firms have an incentive to cheat. They all would like the other members to restrict the output to what had been decided but would want to increase their own output. However‚ if they are a few large firms with similar costs and rising demand‚ the agreement is likely
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Strategic Cost Management Chapter 11 The Honda Business Model for Suppliers Six-year plan 100% understanding of all components of product cost Lean supplier development concurrent engineering Flawless new product launch Communications The Value Equation Definitions Price analysis Process of comparing supplier prices against external price benchmarks Cost analysis Process of analyzing each individual cost element that makes up final price Total cost analysis Applies value equation
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Relevant Costs and Decision Making 4.16 A. The fixed overhead cost will be the same regardless of which method Regina Corp goes. Based on the analysis of Yoklic‚ they will incur the additional cost of $6 per unit by purchasing the subassemblies versus manufacturing them. B. The $50‚000 that is saved by eliminating the fixed overhead reduces the cost for outsourcing. This will give Yoklic an overall $20‚000 savings for 5‚000 units by purchasing externally versus manufacturing internally
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manufacturing costs. Under variable costing only variable manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Under absorption costing both variable and fixed manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Fixed marketing and distribution costs are not accounted for differently under variable costing and absorption costing. 9-2 The term direct costing is a misnomer for variable costing for two reasons: a. Variable costing does not include all direct costs as inventoriable costs. Only variable
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