Normal volume per month is 40‚000 standard labor hours. Jejemon’s january budget was based on normal volume. During January Jejemon’s produced 7‚800 units‚ with records indicating the following: Direct Materials purchased 25‚000 lbs @ P2.60 Direct Materials used 23‚100 lbs Direct labor 40‚100 hours @ P7.30 Factory Overhead P300‚000 Required: 1) Schedule of budgeted production costs based on actual production. 2) Variance Analysis (materials‚ labor‚ and overhead) Determination
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Target Costing: A Historical Perspective Patrick Feil‚ Keun-Hyo Yook‚ Il-Woon Kim INTRODUCTION Target costing originated in Japan in the 1960s‚ though it remained a secret for years. Since the 1980s‚ however‚ when target costing was widely recognized as a major factor for the superior competitive position of Japanese companies‚ extensive efforts have been made to convey target costing to Western companies. Many large companies in North America and Europe have tried to adopt target costing to enhance
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Costing Methods Paper Yolanda Jones ACC/561 James Sullivan November 3‚ 2014 Costing Methods Paper Variable and absorption costing methods are two different costing methods. Almost all successful companies in the world use both methods. Variable costing and absorption costing cannot be substituted for one another because both the systems have their own benefits and limitations (Accounting for management). This paper will complete and discuss exercise 19-17 in Wiley Plus: it will discuss the following
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ABC Costing Activity-based costing (ABC) is a special costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. This model assigns more indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs compared to conventional costing models. Aims of model With ABC‚ an organization can soundly estimate the cost elements of entire products and services. That may prepare decisions on
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Backflush Costing Backflush costing is a traditional and standard costing systems track costs as products pass from raw materials‚ to work in progress‚ to finished goods‚ and finally to sales. Such systems are called ’sequential tracking systems’ because the accounting system entries occur in the same order as purchases and production. Sequential tracking is common where management desires to track direct material and labor time to individual operations and products. Backflush costing is a method
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VARIABLE COSTING Learning Objectives 1. Explain the accounting treatment of fixed manufacturing overhead under absorption and variable costing. 2. Prepare an income statement under absorption costing. 3. Prepare an income statement under variable costing. 4. Reconcile reported income under absorption and variable costing. 5. Explain the implications of absorption and variable costing for cost-volume-profit analysis. 6. Evaluate absorption and variable costing. 7
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cost the services they render. Product costing is the accounting process of determining all business expenses pertaining to the creation of company products. These costs can include raw material purchases‚ worker wages‚ production transportation costs and retail stocking fees. A company uses these overall costs to plan a variety of business strategies‚ including setting product prices and developing promotional campaigns. A company also uses product costing to find ways to streamline
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Quality cost measurement under activity-based costing Wen-Hsien Tsai National Central University‚ Chung-Li‚ Taiwan‚ Republic of China Introduction Many companies in the world gradually promote quality as the central customer value and regard it as a key concept of company strategy in order to achieve the competitive edge (Ross and Wegman‚ 1990). Measuring and reporting the cost of quality (COQ) is the first step in a quality management program. Even in service industries‚ COQ systems receive considerable
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BUS 503 Homework Fang Geng P5-47 The information supplied by the ABC project team is in columns A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ F‚ G‚ I. Activity Activity Cost Pool Cost Driver Cost Divers Quantity Pool Rate Product Line Cost Driver Quantity for Product Line Activity Cost for Product Line Product Line Production Volume Activity Cost per Unit of Production Material 52‚500 Production 100 525.00 REG 40 21‚000 5‚000 4.20 Handing Runs ADV 40 21‚000 4‚000 5.25 GMT 20 10‚500 1‚‚000 10.50
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Target Costing: Nissan v. Olympus Overview: Nissan Motor Company was the world’s 4th largest automobile manufacturer in 1990. They had 10% of the market for cars and trucks‚ with roughly 2 million passenger cars being produced each year. To increase its market share‚ Nissan implemented a plan to achieve domestic sales of 1.5 million cars by 1992. It also sought to obtain the number one rating in customer satisfaction. The company tried to develop a plan to produce a line of automobiles that
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