INTRODUCTION Realised-profit‚ matching-based‚ historical cost accruals accounting (HCA) has for over fifty years been repeatedly challenged as being an inadequate basis for the measurement of "income" which reports increments in the value of businesses. Such challenges continue unabated and are made by both accounting standards regulators and by academic commentators. Despite its obvious deficiencies for measuring valuation based income‚ and subject to concept of prudence‚ internationally HCA remains
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CAPACITY ANALYSIS 9-1 No. Differences in operating income between variable costing and absorption costing are due to accounting for fixed manufacturing costs. Under variable costing only variable manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Under absorption costing both variable and fixed manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Fixed marketing and distribution costs are not accounted for differently under variable costing and absorption costing. 9-2 The term direct costing
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Health Care Cost Accounting A capitation payment arrangement can be an effective means to control healthcare costs because it allows both the insurer and the employer to predict costs for healthcare services more accurately. When a capitation payment method is used‚ the financial risk of caring for the patient is transferred to the medical delivery system. If the healthcare delivery system does not have a cost accounting system or the ability to develop cost information on each payer and service
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Chapter 16: Mobile Marketing and Related Developments MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The adoption stage in which a new product has become a part of the user’s lifestyle is called: a. permanent adoption. b. loyalty. c. internalization. ANS: C REF: p. 441 2. ________ is a product characteristic that determines ease of adoption. a. Relative advantage b. Sustainable advantage c. Substitutability ANS: A REF: p. 441 3. Among the strategic implications of pervasive computing
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Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Communication and Governance Discussion Questions 1. Amazon’s inventory increased from $3.2 billion on December 31‚ 2010‚ to $5.0 billion one year later. In addition‚ sales for the fourth quarter of those years increased from $12.9 billion in 2010 to $17.4 billion in 2011. What is the implied annualized inventory turnover for Amazon for these years? What different interpretations about future performance could a financial analyst infer from this change? What information
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coordinate the individuals’ budgets into a budget for a whole organization. 2) Accounting staff The accounting staff will assist managers in the preparation of their budgets; they will‚ for example‚ circulate and advise on the instructions about budget preparation‚ provide information that may be useful for preparing the present budget‚ and ensure the managers submit their budgets on time. The accounting
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Decision Making 13.3 Types of Costs 13.4 Types of Choices Decisions 13.5 Make or Buy Decisions 13.6 Addition / Discontinuance of a Product line 13.7 Sell or Process Further 13.8 Operate or Shut down 13.9 Exploring New Markets 13.10 Maintaining a desired level of profit 13.11 Summary 13.12 Terminal Questions 13.13 Answers to SAQs and TQs 13.1 Introduction In the previous unit we learnt about Marginal Costing. Marginal costing is the ascertainment of marginal cost and of the effect on profit
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Cost Accounting of Nursing Home Introduction Cost accounting is traditionally viewed as manufacturing support system so it is usually used for product related systems. Nursing homes are the entities that provide healthcare services to patients seeking special treatments. The cost accounting for nursing homes will revolve around the services provided by them and we considered them as our major ‘cost objects’. It offers the most extensive care a person can get outside a hospital. Nursing
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Accounting Final Exam 1.) Five forces included in industry analysis Competitors. Potential entrants into the market. Equivalent products. Bargaining power of customers. Bargaining power of input suppliers. 2.) The balanced scorecard translates an organization’s mission and strategy into a set of performance measures that provides the framework for implementing its strategy. The balanced scorecard does not focus solely on achieving short-run financial objectives. It also highlights the
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businesses were to choose a cash basis accounting method‚ they would record revenue when payments were received and they would record costs when payments were remitted. Payable and receivable entries would not be used since future payments would not be recorded and an inventory entry would not be needed as well. The merchandise purchased for resale or the materials purchased for use in the manufacturing of products would be recorded as an expense in the accounting period in which those purchases were
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