Budgeted Production Cost and Variance Analysis. At the beginning of 2011‚ Jejemon Corporation adopted the following standards: Direct Materials (3 lbs. @ P2.50 / lb) P 7.50 Direct Labor (5 hours @ P7.50 / hr) 37.50 Factory Overhead: Variable (P3.00 per direct labor hour) 15.00 Fixed (P4.00 per direct labor hour) 20.00 Standard Cost per unit P 80.00 Normal volume per month is 40‚000 standard labor hours. Jejemon’s january budget was based on normal volume. During January
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5-47 ABC and TOC Discuss the similarities and differences between activity-based costing and the theory of constraints‚ as well as situations in which one approach might be preferable to the other. 5-48 Cycle time efficiency and JIT Walker Brothers Company is considering installing a JIT manufacturing system in the hope that it will improve its overall processing cycle efficiency. Data from the traditional system and estimates for the JIT system are presented here for their Nosun Product:
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ABC Costing Activity-based costing (ABC) is a special costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. This model assigns more indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs compared to conventional costing models. Aims of model With ABC‚ an organization can soundly estimate the cost elements of entire products and services. That may prepare decisions on
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Activity-Based Costing Instructor Bradley Johnson December 17‚ 2012 Activity-Based Costing In business‚ there are two separate costing methods that a firm can use. One of those methods is called traditional costing system and the other is activity-based costing. Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing method that focuses on identifying activities which allocates the costs of each activity a firm uses. From our text‚ it identifies Activity-based Costing as “a two-stage product costing method that
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Specifically‚ from the four qualitative characteristics‚ Relevance and Reliability are critically examined to see what role they take in the conceptual framework. Accounting information that is to be placed under Relevance‚ are data that are relevant to the subject currently being discussed and its inclusion the accounting process will likely to affect the decision that is to be made. On the other hand‚ information that is to be placed under Reliability‚ are data that can be acknowledged from
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report provides an analysis of Activity Based Costing systems and Conventional Costing systems to determine whether the application of Activity Based Costing concepts would be useful at DBS Consulting Services. A profitability analysis of the two consulting services offered by DBS Consulting Services (e-Commerce Consulting and Information Systems Consulting) was performed using Activity Based Costing and Conventional Costing. Using the conventional costing approach‚ the overheads of $342‚000 were
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Marginal Costing is ascertainment of the marginal cost which varies directly with the volume of production by differentiating between fixed costs and variable costs andfinally ascertaining its effect on profit. The basic assumptions made by marginal costing are following: - Total variable cost is directly proportion to the level of activity. However‚ variable cost per unit remains constant at all the levels of activities. - Per unit selling price remains constant at all levels of activities. -
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ADVANTAGES OF KAIZEN COSTING There are certain basic principles which are followed in various Japanese companies which are listed below: - 1) Focus on customers: The Kaizen philosophy has only one prime objective of customers’ satisfaction. Kaizen permits no middle ground its either you provide best products and customer satisfaction or not. All the activities should aim at providing customer with whatever he wants and should help the firm long term objective of customers’ satisfaction at
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Targeting Target Costing Targeting Target Costing COST MANAGEMENT AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS Martin Carlsson-Wall Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy‚ Ph.D. Business Administration Stockholm School of Economics 2011 Keywords: Target costing Cost management Accounting Inter-organizational accounting Management control Inter-organizational relationships Product development Inter-organizational product development Multi-technology
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Analyse the evolution of ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC). What Factors led to its emergence. Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Activity Based Costing (ABC)……………………………………………………..…. 5 * What is ABC * Development Of ABC Terms Involved in ABC & Stages of ABC………………………………………… 6 Evolution Of ABC………………………………………………………………………… 7 Phases of development of ABC……………………………………………………… 8 What led to the emergence of ABC………………………………………………
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