Travis Johnson An Explosive Problem at Gigantic Motors 5.1.12 Step I. Understanding the situation A. List and number the relevant facts. Statement of Fact Number | Statement of Fact | 1 | Jonathan Archer and Zefrem Cochrane are employees of the Rugged Trucks Company‚ a light truck division of Gigantic Motors Corporation. | 2 | Jonathan and Zefrem have been coworkers for approximately one year. | 3 | Zefrem tells Jonathan that he would like to talk about something confidential
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MARGINAL COSTING Introduction Even a school-going student knows that profit is a balancing figure of sales over costs‚ i.e. Sales - Cost = Profit. This knowledge is not sufficient for management for discharging the functions of planning and control‚ etc. The cost is further divided according to its behavior‚ i.e.‚ fixed cost and variable cost. The age-old equation can be written as: Sales - Cost = Profit or Sales - (Fixed cost + Variable Cost) = Profit. The relevance of segregating costs
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Contract closing a method of costing large projects‚ where the contracted work will run over several accounting periods Every organisation will have its own costing system with characteristics which are unique to that particular system. However‚ although each system might be different‚ the basic costing method used by the organisation is likely to depend on the type of activity that the organisation is engaged in. The costing system would have the same basic characteristics as the systems
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John C. Lincoln designed and developed the electric motor. He developed it in such a way that it could not be matched by any other competitor. However‚ his passion for inventing kept him from being able to manage the company he created. In 1907 he hired his brother‚ James F. Lincoln‚ to manage the day-to-day of the plant operations. This is when the plant began its growth and success. It became a billion dollar company under his tutelage. The Lincoln Electric Company‚ the world’s largest arc-welding
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TERM PAPER STANDARD COSTING MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING & CONTROL SYSTEM Srinidhi Rangarajan 1PB11MBA34 3rd SEM M.B.A PESIT ABSTRACT In recent years‚ numerous tools such as activity-based costing‚ the balanced score card and target costing have gained prominence in the business community. Nonetheless‚ traditional management accounting continues to be prevalent in practice. One example is standard costing‚ which has been used on a wide front during
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1. What are your impressions of the General Electric brand and how the company’s products differ from those offered by competitors? General Electric (GE) is one of the oldest and largest manufacturers of major appliances in the world. The company offers four different brands; The GE brand which is a line of basic appliances‚ The Café brand which is a line of restaurant inspired appliances at reasonable prices‚ the Profile brand which offers contemporary designs along with the latest technologies
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Marginal Costing Marginal cost is the increase in the total cost when the total quantity produced increases by one unit. That is‚ it is the cost of producing one more unit of a good. Generally‚ marginal cost at each level of production is the additional costs required to produce the next unit. For example‚ if producing additional computers requires building a new factory‚ the marginal cost of the extra computers includes the cost of the new factory. In practice‚ this analysis is divided into
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Target Costing on Mercedez – Benz Mercedes-Benz (MB) is one of the world ’s most successful car manufacturers since its establishment in 1886. They used target costing in the design and production of one of its products‚ the M-Class‚ which is a new sports utility vehicle model‚ in response to their first time suffering loss in 1993 because of cost inefficiency and problems with material purchasing and adapting to market changes. MB started developing a range of new products such as the C-Class
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they do not make a difference between those costs that are fixed‚ and those that are variable. As a result‚ management became obligated to rely on the alternative variable costing method which provides better information for managerial accounting purposes. Although it is not allowed for external reporting‚ the variable costing method is preferred by managers because it generates great tools for internal decision making purposes CITATION Nat76 \l 1033 (Accountants‚ 1976). Introduction Accounting
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Kashima Edwards Mar1011 Question Your company president has decided to restructure the firm and become more market-oriented. She is going to announce the changes at an upcoming meeting. She has asked you to prepare a short speech outlining the general reasons for the new company orientation. What key topics should you be sure to include in the speech? Marketing orientation is a business model that focuses on delivering products designed according to customer desires‚ needs‚ and requirements‚ in addition
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