Hogle Company – Job Order Costing Example Hogle Company is a manufacturing firm that uses job-order costing. On January 1‚ the beginning of its fiscal year‚ the company’s inventory balances were as follows: Raw materials $20‚000 Work in process 15‚000 Finished goods 30‚000 Prepaid Insurance 10‚000 The company applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours worked. For the current year‚ the company estimated that it would work 75‚000 machine hours and incur $450
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argument or point you are making about the literature? What is it? • Why is it necessary to include this piece of information or quote? Verbs which use in LR We prefer Research Problem statements to have an outcomes based verb at or near the beginning. Some good outcome based verbs are: Problem Statement WHAT IS A PROBLEM STATEMENT? A problem statement is the description of an issue currently existing which needs to be addressed. It provides the context for the research study and generates
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1 JOB ORDER COSTING EXERCISES EX-1 Good Samaritan Medical Center has a single operating room that is used by local physicians to perform surgical procedures. The cost of using the operating room is accumulated by each patient procedure and includes the direct materials costs (drugs and medical devices)‚ physician surgical time‚ and operating room over-head. On January 1 of the current year‚ the annual operating room overhead is estimated to be: Disposable supplies $124‚500 Depreciation expense
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• Easy to calculate • Price increases can be justified when costs rise • Price stability may arise if competitors take the same approach (and if they have similar costs) • Pricing decisions can be made at a relatively junior level in a business based on formulas The main disadvantages of cost plus pricing are often considered to be: • This method ignores the concept of price elasticity of demand - it may be possible for the
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Standard Costing and Variance Analysis Formulas: Learning Objective of the article: 1. Learn the formulas to calculate direct materials‚ direct labor and factory overhead variances. This is a collection of variance formulas / equations which can help you calculate variances for direct materials‚ direct labor‚ and factory overhead. 1. Direct materials variances formulas 2. Direct labor variances formulas 3. Factory overhead variances formulas Direct Materials Variances: Materials
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Week 4: Costing Methods The week four individual paper addresses the implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC) by Super Bakery‚ Inc.‚ a virtual corporation founded by Franco Harris. Specifically‚ management strategies‚ the reasoning behind an ABC system‚ and the alternatives of a job order cost system or a process order cost system are assessed for this enterprise. Management Strategies A virtual corporation is described as a technology-linked network of companies‚ suppliers‚ and customers
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Introduction 1.1 Problem statement 1.2 The objective of research 1.3 The structure of paper 1.4 CHAPTER 2 - LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Costing systems 2.1.1 The overview of costing system 2.1.2 The importance of costing systems 2.1.3 The type of costing systems 2.1.4 Design of a Performance Based Costing (PBC) system 2.2 A framework for measuring performance in new enterprise 2.2.1 Type of performance measurement 2.2.2 The importance of measurement
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Concepts of Relevant Costing Case Study 1 Report Prepared By: Executive Summary Companies always strive to create value for their customers. In the Canadian trucking industry‚ over $30 billion in revenues were generated by for-hire companies such as Eastern Talon Transport and to attain a sizeable share of these revenues‚ it must also strive to create value for it’s customers. In 2004‚ value is more important than ever. Trade activity between Canada and
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present and analyse a new costing system proposed by Mr. Jan Lorson for the valve department of the company‚ and compare it to the existing system‚ in order to judge whether to go forward with its implementation. The analysis uses a number of examples to highlight the significant differences in costs between the two systems‚ and the impact that these variances have on the business. It is concluded that the new system does provide a definite improvement over the existing one‚ based on the benefits perceived
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Principals. There have been discussions to adopt IFRS fully in the near future. The United States accounting system will undergo drastic changes in 2010 when this occurs. There are many similarities between US GAAP and IFRS but I will be discussing the costing methods for GAAP‚ IFRS and the differences between the two. GAAP is a codification of how CPA firms and corporations prepare and present their business income and expense‚ assets and liabilities on their financial statements (Kartia‚ 2008)
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