Contents QUESTION ONE: Accounting Concepts and Conventions 1 a) Accounting Concepts 1 i) The going concern concept. 1 ii) The accruals concept (or matching concept) 1 iii) The entity concept: 3 iv) The money measurement concept: 3 v) The historical cost concept: 4 vi) The realization concept: 4 vii) Duality concept: 4 b) Accounting conventions 5 QUESTION TWO: Clashing accounting concepts and conventions that might bring about inconsistency in the accounting process 9 1. Clash between
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While I was looking for an appropriate topic for research‚ I found an interesting publication‚ which fitted best to the subject (ethics in managerial accounting issues) and also included 5 good examples examples of possible problems associated with the field. The method of the study seemed unclear‚ especially considering the connection between the serial number of a dollar bill and the question to which the respondent had to answer in the end (in my work I will constantly refer back to the text
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| Appraised Value | Percent of Total | Apportioned Cost | Building | $514‚250 | 55% ($514‚250/$935‚000) | $495‚000 ($900‚000 x 55%) | Land | 271‚150 | 29% ($271‚150/$935‚000) | 261‚000 ($900‚000 x 29%) | Land Improvements | 65‚450 | 7% ($65‚450/$935‚000) | 63‚000 ($900‚000 x 7%) | Four Vehicles | 84‚150 | 9% ($84‚150/$935‚000) | 81‚000 ($900‚000 x 9%) | Totals | $935‚000 | 100% | $900‚000 | 1. Prepare a table to allocate the lump-sum purchase price to the separate assets purchased
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Recievables 12.8 times 15.8 times * sales on account / ave.receivables Ave. age of Receivables: 28.5 days 23.1 days 365 days / turnover E.) Cost of Goods Sold $ 3‚875‚000 $ 3‚450‚000 Average Inventory $ 775‚000 $ 550‚000 Inventory Turnover 5.0 times 6.3 times * cost of goods sold / ave.turnover Turnover in Days: 73 days 58 days 365 / turnover F.) Total Liabilities $ 1‚400‚000 $ 1‚030‚000 Stockholders’
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------------------------------------------------- Subject: Managerial Accounting Case 1 Seligram In the Seligram case‚ the existing cost accounting system measured two components of cost: direct labor and burden. All burden cost‚ which is the overhead‚ was grouped into a single cost pool and was calculated only by using a burden rate per direct labor dollar. This may cause problems since direct labor and overhead are not consumed by the products in the same proportion. Simply using the same burden
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unsure of her decision on Nike stock; she proceeded to ask Joanna Cohen to estimate Nike’s weighted average cost of capital. IV. Constraints on Solution Cohen calculated a weighted average cost of capital of 8.4 percent by using the capital asset pricing model for Nike Inc. Cohen’s calculations are incorrect because she used the book value for both debt and equity. When calculating cost of capital‚ the
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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis Fourteenth Edition Charles T. Horngren Stanford University Srikant M. Datar Harvard University Madhav V. Rajan Stanford University Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montréal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Donna Battista AVP/Executive Editor: Stephanie
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1). Fixed cost per unit decreases when: a. Production volume increases. b. Production volume decreases. c. Variable cost per unit decreases. d. Variable cost per unit increases. 2). Prime cost + Factory overhead cost is: a. Conversion cost. b. Production cost. c. Total cost. d. None of given option. 3). Find the value of purchases if Raw material consumed Rs. 90‚000; Opening and closing stock of raw material
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The Board of Aldermen of the Hayville approved the Appropriations budget for its General Fund for the year ending December 31 as shown below. |General Government |$ 500‚000 | |Public Safety |2‚800‚000 | |Public Works |1‚200‚000 | |Health and Welfare
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Benefits of a Cost Accounting Information System By kmoney4islam. Cost accounting offers benefits for manufacturing companies. A cost accounting information system offers benefits for many companies. Cost accounting is a type of accounting method concerned with the cost of goods manufactured and /or sold. Many factors are taken into consideration when cost accountants analyze business costs . The information determined by these accountants is used for inventory valuation ‚ financial statements
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