FOREST HILL PAPER COMPANY BACKGROUND INFORMATION 1. How would you classify Forest Hill Paper Company in terms of size and ownership? Forest Hill Paper Company is a small‚ closely-held company. Relatively few shareholders own the majority shares of the company. It is most likely a private company. 2. What is the nature of the industry in which Forest Hill competes? Forest Hill is a small company‚ but has to compete against large companies in a commodity market. Paper and paperboard producers
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Contents Page Page 1 Executive Summary 5 2 Introduction 6 3 Current Costing System 7 3.1 Limitations 7 3.2 Potential Consequences 8 4 Activity Based Costing System 9 4.1 Appropriate Approach 9 4.2 Overcome Consequences 10 5 Tables 5 and 3 11 6 Analysis 12 6.1 Current Costing System 12 6.2 Activity Based Costing System 12 6.3 Differences in Total Product Costs 13 7 Recommendation 14 8 Conclusion 15
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HAR VA R D B U S I N E SS S C H O O L P R E SS Activity-Based Costing: Introduction E xc e r p t e d fro m Cost & Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance By Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper Harvard Business School Press Boston‚ Massachusetts ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-1596-1 1596BC Copyright 2006 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America This chapter was originally published as chapter
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transported to the refining facility by Palm Haul Sdn Bhd (PHSB)‚ a transport company based in Perak. Since 2006‚ the transport service rendered by PHSB has been facing challenges whereby its portion of its CPO cargo is sold to illegal market by its truck drivers. To compensate the missing load‚ the weight is being replaced with sludge‚ water or used oil. This has contributed to bad quality CPO thus increasing the processing cost of the refinery and inability to meet customers specification. In 2009‚ there
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materials and product components after a product has been taken back by a company. The crux in developing an ABC model is to identify the activities that will be present in the demanufacturing process of a product‚ and afterwards assign reliable cost drivers and associated consumption intensities to the activities. Uncertainty distributions are assigned to the numbers used in the calculations‚ representing the inherent uncertainty in the model. The effect of the uncertainty on the cost and model behavior
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Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products Division‚ 1980 October 21‚ 2013 CA by Yiwen Zhang Cumberland Metal Industries (CMI) is one of the largest metal manufacturers in the world. The company evolved from selling metal as a finished product to one that used it as a raw material‚ increasing sales from $250‚000 in 1963 to over $18‚500‚000 in 1979. Currently‚ CMI relies heavily on SlipSeal‚ which is used as a high-temperature sealant in automobiles. Although CMI dominates
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CASES FROM MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES Table of Contents Case 1: Case 2: Bal Seal Engineering Robin Cooper Bill’s Custom Planters William Stammerjohan Deborah Seifert Dublin Shirt Company Peter Clarke in assoc. with in assoc. with Paul Juras Wayne Bremser ECN.W William Lawler Endesa Gary M. Cunningham Scott Ericksen Francisco J. Lopez Lubian Antonio Pareja Kincaid Manufacturing Jon Yarusso Ram Ramanan Osram.NA John Shank Lawrence Carr William Lawler Pleasant Run Children’s Home Brooke E. Smith
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brain-dead people are the norm in common carrier management‚ who with their noses in the computer screen and fingers clattering over the keyboard like a honky-tonk piano player‚ illiterate except for the computer‚ try every way they can to robotize drivers. Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “robot” as: “artificially manufactured persons‚ mechanically efficient but devoid of sensibility; hence‚ a brutal‚ efficient‚ insensitive person; an automation.” Is that not what many of us are becoming
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Activity-based Costing (ABC) An activity-based approach refines a costing system by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost objects. It uses the cost of these activities as the basis for assigning costs to other cost objects such as products or services. There are four levels of a cost hierarchy: 1- Output unit-level costs: costs of activities performed on each individual unit of a product or service. 2- Batch-level costs: costs of activities related to a group of
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eight-sentence paragraph. ( Designated drivers have probably saved nearly 50‚000 lives and spared many more thousands of people from suffering injury from drunk driving. Nine out of 10 Americans who attend social events where alcohol is served would like to see designated drivers used and the proportion of people using or being a designated driver has increased dramatically over time. Two each year over 73‚000‚000 Americans either serve as a designated driver or are driven home by one. People that
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