Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems Vada Taborn BUS 640: Managerial Economics Instructor: Isabel Wan Date August 10‚ 2015 Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems Problem 1: William is the owner of a small pizza shop and is thinking of increasing products and lowering costs. William’s pizza shop owns four ovens and the cost of the four ovens is $1‚000. Each worker is paid $500 per week. Workers Employed | Quality of pizzas produced per week 0 0 1
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Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems It is important to understand the economics involved in production costs. This includes understanding marginal product and marginal costs. The following problems analyze these factors for a pizza shop and a shoe company. A table and calculations are provided for better visual understanding. Problem 1: William’s Pizza Shop William owns a small pizza shop. He is attempting to lower production cost by increasing the number of pizzas produced
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Cost estimation is a fundamental aspect of managerial/cost accounting (Datar et al. 2008; Eldenburg and Wolcott 2005). The cost predictions are used in each of the management functions. for example used to predict costs so that management can determine the desirability of alternative options and to budget expenditures‚ profits‚ and cash flows. The objective is to support students in learning how to apply regression analyses to understand cost behavior and forecast future costs using real data from
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Chapter 8 Cost Estimation and Budgeting 8.1 True/False 1) Direct costs are those clearly assigned to the aspect of the project that generated the cost. Answer TRUE 2) Material is an example of a cost that is recurring‚ variable and direct. Answer TRUE 3) An expedited cost is one that does not vary with respect to their usage. Answer FALSE 4) An order of magnitude estimate is usually more accurate than a ballpark estimate. Answer FALSE 5) Comparative estimates are more accurate than definitive
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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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Production Cost Analysis: Economic Analysis as a tool for Process Development: Harvest of a High Cell-Density Fermentation For the biotech industry to be profitable‚ it must consider economics along with process recovery‚ purity‚ and product quality. The number of biotechnology-based human therapeutic products in the late-stage pipeline‚ and the average cost to commercialize a biotech product‚ have steadily increased.1‚2 This has required biotech companies to use economic analysis as a tool
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G Different Methods for Cost Estimation Expert Judgment Method Expert judgment techniques involve consulting with software cost estimation expert or a group of the experts to use their experience and understanding of the proposed project to arrive at an estimate of its cost. Generally speaking‚ a group consensus technique‚ Delphi technique‚ is the best way to be used. The strengths and weaknesses are complementary to the strengths and weaknesses of algorithmic method. To provide
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Chapter 7 Budgeting and Cost Estimation Copyright 2009 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Low Bids If you are bidding on a project‚ do you want your bid to be as low as possible and still make a profit? Accept Low Bid If you are accepting bids on a project‚ do you want to accept the lowest bid? Budgeting A plan for allocating scarce resources to the various endeavors of an organization A budget implies constraints Thus‚ it implies that managers will not get everything they
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COST OF PRODUCTION CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Types of costs 3.1 Opportunity‚ implicit and explicit costs 3.2 Fixed and variable costs 3.3 Average costs 3. Types of cost curves 4.4 Marginal cost curve 4.5 Average cost curves 4. Costs in Short run and in the Long run 5.6 Short run 5.7 Long run 5.8 Economies of scale 5. Cost analysis in the real world 6.9 Economies of scope 6.10 Experiential
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