Office Dakota Products Case Analysis Course: BUSA 5061 Managerial Accounting Students Name: Teresa Willette Professors Name: Dr. Conner/Dr. Pollard Date 3/20/2011 Executive Summary The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In the analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate
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1 Dakota current allocates warehousing‚ distribution and order entry cost equally to each customer. DOP’s pricing system is generally independent of the specific level of service provided for customers. They just chose a single cost drive. However‚ it’s not believable and proper to use this simple method to analyze costs when costs are more complex. So we need to use activity-based cost system to chose different cost drives and allocate costs based on the activity. 2 We identify four different activities
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The United States government possesses a long history of double-crossing Native Americans. The most recent event is the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline currently being protested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters. Though the pipeline is more than halfway completed‚ protestor’s have held their ground since April of 2016‚ and show no sign of losing momentum. The tribe argues construction of the pipeline has already bulldozed into the sacred burial grounds of their ancestors
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301‚ you discussed the Dakota Office Products (DOP) case and were asked to design the ABC system. For this assignment in BCOM 250‚ you will take what you learned in ACC 301 and write a report recommending that DOP use activity-based costing to determine its pricing to customers. You do not need to go into deep detail about how you would design the ABC system. You will work with a team of 4-5 people to produce this deliverable. Assume that your group is part of the accounting staff at DOP. You should
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1. Why was Dakota’s existing pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? - profits only when clients placed large orders for cartons - real drop of profit if many clients place small orders - wrong cost determination for individual customers - wrong cost determination for new services provided by DOP (to small charges for the “desktop” delivery‚ then the actual cost of it) 2. Develop an activity-base cost system for Dakota Office Products based on
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others overstated. This happens in companies where overhead costs are too complex for the simple overhead allocation system used as it is at DOP. 2. Develop an activity based costing system for Dakota Office Products based on Year 2000 data. Calculate the activity cost-driver rate for each Dakota Office Product activity in 2000. # | Activity | Assigned cost centers | $ | Cost driver | Activity quantity | Cost driver rate ($/quantity) | Unit of service | 1 | Process cartons in and out of
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The Dakota and Lakota people lived in large buffalo-hide tents called tipis (or teepees). Tipis were carefully designed to set up and break down quickly. An entire Sioux village could be packed up and ready to move within an hour. Originally tipis were only about 12 feet high‚ but after the Sioux acquired horses‚ they began building them twice that size. Here are some pictures of tipis and other Indian houses. Today‚ Native Americans only put up a tepee for fun or to connect with their heritage.
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Political Science and Public Administration are scientific studies that pull from a variety of different fields. Majors of study at institutions of higher education like Accounting‚ Agriculture‚ Anthropology‚ Communications‚ Economics‚ Education‚ History‚ Marketing‚ Medicine‚ Psychology‚ and Sociology all are encompassed within Political Science and Public Administration. Within Political Science policy is set‚ budgets are made‚ and laws are carefully thought out with consideration from all the aforementioned
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Market Summary Our primary target market will be young professionals aged 21-35 who prefer premium and super premium beer. Secondary market are professionals that drink ultra premium beer. This mix does not need to be defined by the typical “strong” taste associated with microbrews. Our variety of beer is broad enough to include more a-typical beer drinkers as well as the higher end microbrew consumer. Liquor stores in our area are stocking larger selections of microbrews‚ this complements
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Uptown‚ Dakota and Powermaster ---Case Study Analysis Course Name: Marketing Ethics (M) Student Name: TING WANG Student number: 1601392 I. Background of the Case In 1989‚ R.J. Reynolds announced to introduce a plan for Uptown‚ the cigarettes designed to target at black smokers. However‚ Uptown never reached the shelves because the opposition of some
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