the Assignment 1 Grade Descriptor table. 2. Assignment 2 Case Study: Sola Systems Imagine you are Sunny Power and you are to write a Management Report (in approximately 1‚500 words) to Ms. Eva Green to assist her in understanding Sola Systems costing systems‚ problems and alternatives as
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Description In ACC 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
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innovative employees who engage with their work. The selection process will be rigorous. You know you will be asked to submit reports based on questions regarding your knowledge of management accounting practice and strategic management accounting. To provide a context for the reports‚ you have been provided with a scenario in the form a case study on which the questions are based. To answer the questions you are going to have to do some research in the library. Giving you the questions is a method to test
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the numbers. We will specifically focus on the following topics: understanding cost behavior‚ activity-based costing‚ variance analysis‚ budgeting‚ the balanced scorecard‚ transfer pricing‚ and performance measurement. Collectively‚ this analysis should provide a broad basis for understanding the comprehensive role of management accounting. Class Grading Grades for the course will be assigned based on the following weighting for course requirements: Points Group
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can not directly be traced to cost units. The task of the cost accountant is to charge these overhead costs to cost units/products. There are two approaches of charging overhead costs to cost units Viz i. Traditional/conventional absorption costing method and‚ ii. Activity Based Costing (ABC) Classification of overheads Overheads can be classified as production or non production overheads. Production overheads are those incurred in the production departments or production support departments
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Absorption Based Costing – Managerial Analysis Liliana Evans ACC 561 11 May 2014 Professor Jill Datema Absorption Based Costing – Managerial Analysis Absorption based costing method (ABC) is used by companies to identify activities that it performs and then assigns direct and indirect costs to the product’s overall pricing. This method helps businesses determine the cost drivers that influence the product’s sales price by increase or decrease. ABC uses cost drivers‚ such
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overhead cost where allocated overhead = Burden rate * # of machine hours used by A Disadvantage: Assumes that all products consume direct labor (or other driver) and overhead in the same proportion. Two-stage allocation system and Product Costing Overhead costs are divided into different cost pools. Each cost pool has a cost driver (allocation base). * Split manufacturing overhead into more than one cost pool (e.g. create 2 cost pools whose costs add up to total manufacturing overhead
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E INTRODUCTION TO COST MANAGEMENT Activity-Based Costing and Management After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to . . . 1. Explain the strategic role of activity-based costing 2. Describe activity-based costing (ABC)‚ the steps in developing an ABC system‚ and the benefits and limitations of an ABC system 3. Determine product costs under both the volume-based method and the activity-based method and contrast the two 4. Explain activity-based management (ABM) 5. Describe how ABC/M is
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Activity-Based Overhead Rate R&D activities fall into four pools. The four activity pools are market analysis‚ product design‚ product development‚ and prototype testing. The annual costs are $1‚050‚000 for market analysis‚ $2‚350‚000 for product design‚ $3‚600‚000 for product development‚ and $1‚400‚000 for prototype testing. The total estimated drivers for each activity are 15‚000 hours of market analysis‚ 2‚500 designs‚ 90 products‚ and 500 tests. Per the computed activity-based overhead
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1. Unit based costing first assigns overhead costs to departmental pools and then assigns these costs to products using predetermined overhead rates. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 2. Management information systems can be divided into a unit-based type and activity-based type. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 3. Predetermined overhead rates are calculated at the end of each year using the formula: overhead rate = budgeted annual driver level/budgeted annual driver level. a. True b. False ANSWER:
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