Airline Operating Costs By Peter Horder‚ Senior Vice President SH&E Ltd Prepared for: MANAGING AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE COSTS Conference Brussels‚ 22 January 2003 Agenda Introduction Current Airline Environment Airline Cost Elements Indirect and Direct Operating Costs Overhead Cost Control Balance Sheet Effects Reference Sources Conclusions 1 Introduction Current airline environment Safety considerations and costs – Security restrictions – Insurance implications Cost reduction
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Target Costing: A Historical Perspective Patrick Feil‚ Keun-Hyo Yook‚ Il-Woon Kim INTRODUCTION Target costing originated in Japan in the 1960s‚ though it remained a secret for years. Since the 1980s‚ however‚ when target costing was widely recognized as a major factor for the superior competitive position of Japanese companies‚ extensive efforts have been made to convey target costing to Western companies. Many large companies in North America and Europe have tried to adopt target costing to enhance
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Services Costing Solution Value Driver: Helps in identifying correct adoption of costing method which facilitates a transparent cost chargeback to Business Units (recipient of shared services) with granular insight of the cost constituents. Introduction: In today’s highly cost conscious environment‚ enterprise wide cost savings can be achieved by consolidating common work and infrastructure by using Shared Services units. But Business units often complain that Shared Services end up costing more
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Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a methodology 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. By using ABC to assign the overhead costs to each activity‚ the following steps should be followed: 1. Identify and define activities using interviews and surveys. Then build a list of activities. • Activity name-usually consists of an action verb and an object.
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Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity resource to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. It also assigns more indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs. In business organization‚ the ABC methodology assigns an organization’s resource costs through activities to the products and services provided to its customers. It is generally used as a tool for understanding product and
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Backflush Costing Backflush costing is a traditional and standard costing systems track costs as products pass from raw materials‚ to work in progress‚ to finished goods‚ and finally to sales. Such systems are called ’sequential tracking systems’ because the accounting system entries occur in the same order as purchases and production. Sequential tracking is common where management desires to track direct material and labor time to individual operations and products. Backflush costing is a method
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the total cost per unit under throughput costing? Under throughput costing‚ are product costs higher or lower than with other costing methods? Under throughput costing‚ if the sales price per unit is $20‚ direct materials are $8.00 per unit‚ direct labor is $4.00 per unit‚ variable manufacturing overhead is $6.00 per unit‚ if 20‚000 units are produced‚ how much would the variable costs considered period costs on the income statement under throughput costing be? Direct labor be included as a product
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Costing Methods Paper Yolanda Jones ACC/561 James Sullivan November 3‚ 2014 Costing Methods Paper Variable and absorption costing methods are two different costing methods. Almost all successful companies in the world use both methods. Variable costing and absorption costing cannot be substituted for one another because both the systems have their own benefits and limitations (Accounting for management). This paper will complete and discuss exercise 19-17 in Wiley Plus: it will discuss the following
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profits reported under variable and absorption costing differ? How can we reconcile the profits reported under the two approaches? Profits reported under variable and absorption costing will differ when inventory increases or decreases during the year. The difference involves the timing with which fixed manufacturing overhead becomes an expense. Under variable costing‚ fixed overhead is expensed immediately as it is incurred. Under absorption costing‚ fixed overhead is inventoried until the manufactured
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Absorption and Variable Costing‚ Inventory Management Absorption and Variable costing are very important tools for cost accounting. Both of these costing methods allow you to see the cost of your inventory‚ in a different way. For example the absorption method allows you to assign all costs to the product‚ while variable costing allows only variable costs to be assigned to the product. Inventory management is extremely important as well because it ties into efficiency and lowering your costs
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