2-22 Variable costs and fixed costs. Consolidated Minerals (CM) owns the rights to extract minerals from beach sands on Fraser Island. CM has costs in three areas: a. Payment to a mining subcontractor who charges $80 per ton of beach sand mined and returned to the beach (after being processed on the mainland to extract three minerals: ilmenite‚ rutile‚ and zircon). b. Payment of a government mining and environmental tax of $50 per ton of beach sand mined. c. Payment to a barge operator. This
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Labor Cost Cutting Strategy In a sluggish economy‚ it is more important than ever for businesses to cut costs. Knowing how to reduce the cost of paying employees without reducing product quality‚ dropping employee morale or otherwise sacrificing the way you do business can be the difference between being in the red or the black at the end of the year. Stop the Overtime * Don’t pay overtime unless it is absolutely necessary. Remember that you must pay non-exempt employees 1 1/2 times their
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A B C D Total Production Volume (units) 10‚000 8‚000 6‚000 4‚000 Selling Price $15.00 $18.00 $20.00 $22.00 Materials/unit $4.00 $5.00 $6.00 $7.00 DLH/unit 0.24 0.18 0.12 0.08 Total DLH 2‚400 1‚440 720 320 4‚880 Plant Overhead $122‚000 DL rate/hour $30 Y oungstown has a tradition al cost sys tem. It calc ulates a p lant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during
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ineffective spending around the globe‚ lawmakers looking for cost-saving measures would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs‚ lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals‚ which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly‚ the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international counterparts in minimizing such cost‚ yet prison privatization has yielded hopeful results
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of the more basic concepts of economics. Scarcity needs trade-offs‚ and trade-offs result in an opportunity cost. While the cost of a good or service often is thought of in monetary terms‚ the opportunity cost of a decision is based on what must be given up as a result of the decision. Any decision that involves a choice between two or more options has an opportunity cost. Opportunity cost‚ scarcity and trade-off are important in our daily life because it affects us every day in different ways and
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THE MBA DECISION 1. How does Ben’s age affect his decision to get an MBA? In our opinion‚ Age is one of the important factor that affects someone decision to continue study. In this case‚ Ben is now 28 years old. He graduated from college six years ago when he’s age is 22 years old. Assuming that Ben already working for about 5 years since graduated from college‚ so that he would have enough money from salary saving in5 years to do his MBA at 28 years age. If he starts the MBA program on 28 years
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reasons why our health is so expensive. Administrative Costs The number one reason our healthcare costs are so high‚ says Harvard economist David Cutler‚ is that “the administrative costs of running our healthcare system are astronomical. About one quarter of healthcare cost is associated with administration‚ which is far higher than in any other
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Cost estimation is a fundamental aspect of managerial/cost accounting (Datar et al. 2008; Eldenburg and Wolcott 2005). The cost predictions are used in each of the management functions. for example used to predict costs so that management can determine the desirability of alternative options and to budget expenditures‚ profits‚ and cash flows. The objective is to support students in learning how to apply regression analyses to understand cost behavior and forecast future costs using real data from
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CHapter 16 THE BEHAVIOR OF COSTS Changes from the Twelfth Edition All changes to Chapter 16 were minor. Approach We have retained our approach of putting all C-V-P topics in a single chapter because many schools’ marketing and management accounting core courses start simultaneously‚ and marketing likes to have break-even analysis covered early in the management accounting course. Also‚ if there are students in the course with work experience or‚ in the case of MBA courses‚ with some
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System A D A M BORISON Applied Decision Analysis. Inc. 27W Sand Hill Road Mcnio Park. California 94025 Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) provides wholesale power to consumer-owned distribution cooperatives in Georgia. Late in 1990‚ OPC managers learned that Florida Power Corporation wanted to expand its connections to Georgia with another transmission line. To decide whether to build this line‚ OPC worked with Applied Decision Analysis‚ Inc. to conduct a comprehensive decision analysis in
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