ACT 5733 – Advanced Managerial Accounting Home Work Questions Question #1 CF is the new controller for the consumer division of ABC company. In the past five years‚ ABC’s earnings have grown by at least 15% annually‚ with the consumer division’s earnings growing by over 20% annually over the same time-period. In the 4th quarter of the current year‚ however‚ it is projected that consumer’s income will grow by 8% and ABC’s will grow by 10%. ML‚ consumer division’s president‚ wants CF to take
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Process Costing - The Hershey Company/ Kaiser Aluminum Process costing is used mostly in companies when converting raw materials into homogenous products. A single product is produced on a continuous basis and all units of the product are identical. Costs are computed by department where the materials‚ labor‚ or overhead costs are added to the product in the processing department. Our two companies‚ The Hershey Company and Kaiser Aluminum‚ convert raw materials to their finished products of chocolate
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to shops in airports and hotels. The finance manager has just returned from an ABC seminar and has been asked to assist in the development of an ABC system in the organization. The following data are as follows: |ACTIVITY |Estimated indirect activity cost|Allocation base |Estimated quantity of allocation| | |(cost pool) |(cost driver) |base | |Materials handling
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Managerial Accounting Reality Check Summaries Professor Shin Hee-Lim Shin 1001006 Reality Check – What’s your blog’s ROI? Summary ROI has been always one of the important factors to determine how profitable the business is doing. However‚ for until last few decades‚ ROI was only implementing to evaluate the hard assets like buildings and equipment. But in nowadays‚ many companies are using ROI to evaluate the investment in technology‚ such as blog. As a following example‚ it shows that
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TOPIC: ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Activity based management (ABM) is an approach to management that aims to maximize the value adding activities to the customers while minimizing or eliminating non-value adding activities. The objective of ABM is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization in securing its markets. It draws on activity based-costing (ABC) as its major source of information and focuses on managing activities to (1) reduce costs‚ (2) create performance
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01/14/2011 ACC 560 Case 1: Greetings Inc.: Job Order Costing 1. Define and explain the meaning of a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate that is applied in a job-order costing system? A predetermined overhead rate is the rate used to apply manufacturing overhead to work-in-process inventory. The predetermined overhead rate is calculated before the period begins. The first step is to estimate the amount of the activity base that will be required to support operations in the upcoming
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Faculty of Business Administration Department of Accounting BBA Program COURSE OUTLINE Term: Summer 2012 – 2013 I. Course Code and Title : BBA – 2210: Managerial Accounting II. Credit : 3 credit hours III. Course Description: This course introduces management accounting as an interactive discipline among the young learners and covers a wide range of issues leading to managerial decision making such as: Definition and features of managerial accounting; cost terms‚ concepts‚ and classifications; cost
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Full Cost Pricing Selling price arrived at by adding overheads and profit margin to the direct cost per unit of a product. In a manufacturer’s overheads computation‚ less than full capacity utilization of the plant is factored in to allow for fluctuations in the output. The profit margin is computed as a fixed percentage of the average total cost of the product. Pricing - full cost-plus pricing Full cost plus pricing seeks to set a price that takes into account all relevant costs of production
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How do managerial accounting practices benefit business organizations? Nowadays‚ managerial accounting practice is practiced by many successful producers in Japan‚ Korea‚ China and others. Therefore‚ they are able to use their resources effectively and efficiently. Companies practicing managerial accounting are also able to maintain the quality of their products yet still offering reasonable price for their products. Managerial accounting differs from traditional financial accounting practice in
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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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