PAPER F5 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT P R A C T I C E & R E V I S I O N K I T In this January 2010 new edition We discuss the best strategies for revising and taking your ACCA exams We show you how to be well prepared for your exam We give you lots of great guidance on tackling questions We show you how you can build your own exams We provide you with three mock exams including the December 2009 exam We provide the ACCA examiner ’s answers as well as our own to the June and December 2009 exams as
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Critically discuss to what extent Porter’s Diamond is a useful concept in explaining home and host location strategies of international business? Illustrate your answer with reference to at least two case companies. The main aim of International business is to build and sustain competitiveness for economic value creation in both domestic and overseas markets (Besanko et al. 2007). Internalization business theory however has a variety of models that can identify the environmental analysis of specific
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1. Activity Based Costing benefits businesses that are more complex in nature. In this case‚ Greetings. INC has added a new product line‚ Wall Decor‚ which permits them to grow without expanding their physical stores; however‚ they have significantly raised their overhead costs by multiplying their cost drivers. Not to mention the fact that they have incorporated a largely automated system into their product line‚ which we know calls for an ABC system. The main reason to move to ABC though‚ would
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an activity-based costing system. As stated in the case‚ these costs will be used for planning and control decisions rather than inventory valuation. The activity-based costing system will provide better allocation of Glaser’s overhead costs rather than a system to look at the cost drivers or the activities that their overhead costs comprise. Glaser’s general structure of an activity-based costing model should consist of cost objects‚ activities‚ consumption of resources‚ and cost. Activity-based
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Decision at Applied Office Product Company ’s Background In 1992‚ Allied Office Products was a corporation with annual sales of $900 million. It deals with manufacturing of following forms : * Business Forms * Specialty paper product such as writing paper‚ envelopes‚ note cards‚ and greeting cards In 1988‚ as form manufacturing business matures‚ Allied Office Product had expanded into business form inventory management system and put a step ahead to attain a competitive advantage by embarking
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controller of Winjum Company had described that firm’s variable costing system‚ which charged fixed overhead to income as a period expense and treated only variable production costs as inventoriable product costs. Winjum’s controller had stressed that‚ other things being equal‚ variable costing caused income to move with sales only‚ rather than being affected by both sales and production volume as was the case with full absorption costing systems. Wilcox decided to recast the June and July income
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controller‚ Sally Fields‚ to prepare an analysis using activity-based costing. Sally accumulates the following information about overhead for the year ended December 31‚ 2012. | | | | | | |Cost | | | | | | | |Total | |Driver | |Overhead | |Activity | |Cost Driver
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ACCT 350—TENTATIVE SCHEDULE—Spring 2015 DATE TOPICS/CLASS WORK HOMEWORK 1-14 Course Introduction Chapter 2: Basic Cost Management Concepts 1-21 Chapter 2 continued Chapter 4: Activity-Based Costing Read Chapters 2 and 4 Ch 2: 28‚ 32‚ and 33 Ch 4: 28 and 29 1-28 Chapter 4 continued Chapter 7: Allocating Costs of Support Departments and Joint Products Introduce Time-Driven ABC article and Kemps LLC case Read Chapter 7 Ch 4: 30‚ 32‚ and 33 Ch 7: 7‚ 8‚ 9‚ 12‚ 20‚ 21‚ and 34 2-4 Chapter 7 continued
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started using activity based costing to allocate operating expenses to products and customers. The overall process is important to the ultimate success of the bank‚ so it needs to be logical and transparent. The bank’s project team came up with 3 questions for the activity-based costing: “How should it define resource pools? What activities should it define? Should it analyze costs by product or by customer?” These questions seem very logical in helping implement the activity based costing. By writing
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DOWNLOAD ANSWERS Page 1 1. (TCO 1) A difference between actual costs and planned costs 2. (TCO 1) Which of the following is not likely to be a fixed cost? 3. (TCO 2) Which of the following is not a manufacturing cost? 4. (TCO 2) A job-order costing system is likely used by a 5. (TCO 3) Equivalent units are calculated by 6. (TCO 3) The Freedom Corporation’s painting department had a beginning inventory of 580 units‚ which had direct material costs of $22‚715. During June‚ 9‚290 units were started
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