Zauner Ornaments Costing & Pricing Introduction Zauner Ornaments was a large manufacturer of crystal and glass products based in Vienna Austria. The company had an international reputation of producing high quality glass and crystal at affordable prices due to the skill of its master artisan and using innovative technology in the manufacturing process. Its product was used in fine restaurants‚ hotels and residencies around the world. Due to slowing growth in the fine-crystal and glass-tableware
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inventory ____D___ 2. Results in cost of goods sold being closest to current product costs ____C___ 3. Results in highest income during periods of inflation ____C___ 4. Results in highest ending inventory during periods of inflation ____B___ 5. Smooths out costs during periods of inflation ____A___ 6. Is not practical for most businesses ____B___ 7. Puts more weight on the cost of the larger number of units purchased ____A___ 8. Is an assumption that most closely reflects the physical flow of goods for
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Q1: There are two different types of cost accounting systems: Job order cost systems and process cost systems. How does management decide whether to use a job order cost system or a process cost system in any given manufacturing situation? Explain. Job order cost system is used in situations where many different products are produced each period. For example‚ a Levi Strauss clothing factory would typically make many different types of jeans for both men and women during a month. A particular order
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Costing a Garment Costing is the deciding factor for fixing of prices and the important thing to follow in all stages like purchase‚ production‚ marketing‚ sales‚ etc. Also updated knowledge about everything related to garments‚ is essential to make perfect costing. Costing includes all the activities like purchase of fabrics and accessories‚ processing and finishing of fabrics‚ sewing and packing of garments‚ transport and conveyance‚ shipping‚ over heads‚ banking charges and commissions‚ etc. We
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Defining‚ Modeling & Costing IT Services Integrating Service Level‚ Configuration & Financial Management Processes In our cost driven economy IT is facing increasing pressure to account for and reduce cost wherever possible. The old axiom “You must do more with less” has never had such an impact on IT operations and support as it does today. Thousands of IT managers are being placed in a situation which forces them to defend their staffing levels against both internal as well as external threats
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Chapter 5 7. Briefly describe the activity-based costing allocation process. Activity-based costing involves two allocation stages and includes a multitude of cost drivers. The first stage known as ABC assigns costs to pools; which signify the activities of the costs to be incurred. During the second stage the cost pools are allocated to products or cost objects by utilizing cost drivers that measure the object’s use of that activity. 12. Milken Manufacturing has three product lines. The
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between ABC Costing and the Time Driven ABC Costing Activity Based Costing (ABC)‚ is a method used to gather an estimation of the cost of a product or service. It was proposed by Robert S. Kaplan and W. Bruns. It helps to assign costs to products and services‚ of an activity along with the resources‚ based on the consumption that takes place by each product or service. The model helps companies in deciding that which products are not rightly priced and which products are actually costing more or are
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Advantages and disadvantages of variable costing Many managers use variable costing for internal reporting and decision making since it has number of advantages (Myers par. 1). First‚ on variable costing reports costs are organized by behavior which makes it easier to understand. Also‚ variable costing statements facilitate cost volume profit (CVP) analysis because it separates cost behavior by fixed and variable. Under variable costing‚ changes in inventory or production do not affect the
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IS STANDARD COSTING OBSOLETE? Department of Accountancy University of Kelaniya What is Standard costing? Standard costing is technique which establishes predetermined estimates of the costs of products and services and then compares these predetermined costs with actual costs as they are incurred. Management Accounting 2 What is Variance? The difference between a cost’s actual amount and its budgeted or planned amount Unfavorable cost variance Actual cost > Budgeted Amount Favorable cost
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Product Costing Module in ERP for L&T Kansbahal Works‚ Kansbhal‚ Orissa : A Case Study 1 Seema G. Bhol‚ 2Arun Mishra & 3Srikanta Patnaik Sambalpur University‚ Burla‚ Orissa‚ India‚ 2Head (IT Services)‚ L&T‚ Kansbhal‚ Orissa‚ India‚ 3 Department of Computer Science ITER ‚ SOA University ‚ Bhubaneswar‚ Orissa‚ India E-mail : guptaseema@hotmail.com‚ arun-kbl@kbl.ltindia.com‚ patnaik_srikanta@yahoo.co.in 1 Abstract - One need to be very accurate in what the products and services are costing. Inaccurate
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