Chapter 7 Variable Costing: A Tool for Management Solutions to Questions 7-1 The basic difference between absorption and variable costing is due to the handling of fixed manufacturing overhead. Under absorption costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a product cost and hence is an asset until products are sold. Under variable costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a period cost and is charged in full against the current period’s income. 7-2 Selling and administrative expenses
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disadvantages of variable costing Many managers use variable costing for internal reporting and decision making since it has number of advantages (Myers par. 1). First‚ on variable costing reports costs are organized by behavior which makes it easier to understand. Also‚ variable costing statements facilitate cost volume profit (CVP) analysis because it separates cost behavior by fixed and variable. Under variable costing‚ changes in inventory or production do not affect the net operating income. In
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Cost/Benefit Analysis for Implementing ECM‚ BPM Systems Determining the ROI for a significant investment‚ such as adopting an ECM or BPM system‚ is no easy task. Doug Allen‚ CRM‚ CDIA+ T he adoption of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) systems is often spurred by regulatory and compliance concerns. As Thomas Hogan‚Vignette president and chief executive officer‚ told Computerworld‚ the move to adopt ECM technology is driven by “two fundamental business
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TOTAL ASSET MANAGEMENT Life Cycle Costing Guideline September 2004 TAM04-10 Life Cycle Costing Guideline September 2004 TAM04-10 ISBN 0 7313 3325 X (set) ISBN 0 7313 3272 5 1. 2. 3. I. Asset management – New South Wales. Capital Investment. Public administration – New South Wales Title. (Series : TAM 2004) This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968‚ no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from
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Introduction to Standard Costing Standard costing is an important subtopic of cost accounting. Standard costs are usually associated with a manufacturing company’s costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead. Rather than assigning the actual costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead to a product‚ many manufacturers assign the expected or standard cost. This means that a manufacturer’s inventories and cost of goods sold will begin with amounts reflecting
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Activity Based Costing and the Theory of Constraints are‚ respectively‚ Overhead Absorption Costing and Marginal Costing in a different guise Introduction In this assignment I will be investigating the assertion that Activity Based Costing and the Theory of Constraints are‚ respectively‚ Overhead Absorption Costing and Marginal Costing in a different guise. To analyse this statement I will compare ABC with Overhead Absorption Costing and Theory
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Introduction: Process costing is a form of operations costing which is used where standardized homogeneous goods are produced. This costing method is used in industries like chemicals‚ textiles‚ steel‚ rubber‚ sugar‚ shoes‚ petrol etc. Process costing is also used in the assembly type of industries also. It is assumed in process costing that the average cost presents the cost per unit. Cost of production during a particular period
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manage what the company manufactures‚ sells‚ and to give advice as to where costs can be reduced. 2-3. Three examples of a variable cost are a 12% increase in the production of dresses‚ which will cause a 12% increase in variable costs. A 10% increase in clothes will cause an 10% increase in variable costs. A 30% increase in labor hours will cause a 30% increase in variable costs. Three examples of a fixed cost are a 12% increase in airline costs but the fixed costs remain unchanged. A 50% increase
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fixed‚ variable and semi-variable costs; differential incremental or decremental costs; opportunity costs etc. In the managerial decision making process‚ each classification has its own importance. Many costing techniques evolved in due course of time to ascertain the costs of above elements and to facilitate the control of the cost of the product. The main costing techniques that evolved include Absorption Cost Technique‚ Marginal Cost Technique and recently developed Activity Based Costing Technique
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Historical Development of Marginal Costing Marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced has an increment by unit. That is‚ it is the cost of producing one more unit of a good. In general terms‚ marginal cost at each level of production includes any additional costs required to produce the next unit. The concept of marginal utility grew out of attempts by economists to explain the determination of price. The term “marginal utility”‚ credited to the Austrian
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