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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Absorption and marginal costing (Relevant to AAT Examination Paper 3: Management Accounting) Li Tak Ming‚ Andy Deputy Head‚ Department of Business Administration‚ Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Kwai Chung) Introduction Absorption costing and marginal costing are alternative cost accumulation systems used to ascertain product or job costs for inventory valuation and cost of sales. Absorption costing Absorption costing includes both variable and fixed production costs in the
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Deconstructing Mixed Methods Research: Week Nine Application Deconstructing Mixed Methods Research: Week Nine Application Mixed method research involves using both qualitative and quantitative research designs to conduct a study (Sheperis‚ Young‚ & Daniel‚ 2010). Mixed method research allows researchers to use both qualitative and quantitative data to verify findings. There are many different mixed method designs which can be used. This paper deconstructs a course article
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Activity Based Costing The major strength of activity based costing is the ability to estimate the cost of individual products and services precisely. By transferring overhead costs to individual units of products or services‚ ABC helps identify inefficient or non-profitable products or activities that help into the profitability of efficient processes or highly profitable products. 1. More accurate costing of products/services Product cost determination under activity-based costing is more accurate
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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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Making a Bakery Business Plan Coming up with a bakery business plan is one of the first things to do if you intent to start a bakery business of your own. Bakery business can prove to be one of the most rewarding businesses at start because of the personal involvement as well as the good profits that can start pouring in as soon as you begin. Bakery business is one where you can remain involved in every aspect from baking to selling and buying ingredients.A business plan is the only thing that can
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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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VARIABLE COSTING Learning Objectives 1. Explain the accounting treatment of fixed manufacturing overhead under absorption and variable costing. 2. Prepare an income statement under absorption costing. 3. Prepare an income statement under variable costing. 4. Reconcile reported income under absorption and variable costing. 5. Explain the implications of absorption and variable costing for cost-volume-profit analysis. 6. Evaluate absorption and variable costing. 7
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IMPLEMENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC COSTING IN BULK DRUG AND R&D DEPARTMENT OF A PHARMA INDUSTRY Submitted By KAUSTUBH NIJASURE Under the guidance of Prof. P.M. Nayak A PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PART COMPLETITION OF MMS TO THE Vidyalankar Institute Of Technology Wadala (East)‚ Mumbai 400 031 JULY 14th‚ 2008 Executive summary: Centaur Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. has following divisions: 1. Bulk Drug 2. Formulations 3. Research and Development 4. Clinical Research
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Process costing is used for homogenous products (continuous flow processes such as producing cans of soda). Job-order costing is used in situations where the organization offers many different products or services‚ such as in furniture manufacturing‚ hospitals‚ and legal firms. Process costing is used where units of product are homogeneous‚ such as in flour milling or cement production. The purpose of a job order cost accounting system is to assign and accumulate costs for each job‚ i.e
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