CHAPTER 2: RELEVANT REVENUES AND COSTS The primary goal of a firm is to maximize profits. This implies‚ of course‚ that each decision a manager makes is consistent with that goal. Although managers are expected to rely on internally-produced reports‚ such as balance sheets and income statements‚ to help them make decisions‚ most of the information that appears on these statements is period-based rather than decision-based. A balance sheet shows the sum total of a firm’s assets and liabilities
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COST STRUCTURE The Wal-Mart cost structure is known to be the lowest in the retail industry. Many economists do not agree with this structure because although consumers are happy with low prices Wal-Mart has forced its suppliers and competitors small and big to lower their prices in order for them to maintain the image and reputation of having the lowest prices around for quality products. Many cities and neighborhoods have banned Wal-Mart due to the fear of small businesses being run out of
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Microeconomics Spring 2010 1. Your cousin Vinnie owns a painting company with fixed costs of $200 and the schedule for variable costs as below. What is the efficient scale of the painting company? Quantity of Houses Painted per Month | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Variable Costs | $10 | $20 | $40 | $80 | $160 | $320 | $640 | 2. Your aunt is thinking about opening a hardware store. She estimates that it would cost $500‚000 per year to rent the location and buy the stock. In addition‚ she would
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1. Cost of goods manufactured will usually include: A. only direct labor and direct materials costs. B. some costs incurred during the prior period as well as costs incurred during the current period. C. only costs incurred during the current period. D. some period costs as well as some product costs. 2. During the month of August‚ direct labor cost totaled $13‚000 and direct labor cost was 20% of prime cost. If total manufacturing costs during August were $88‚000‚ the manufacturing overhead
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Cost Accounting Chapter 2 - Costs – Concepts and classification Problem 1 Problem 2 1. Direct 9. Direct 1. Manufacturing 6. Manufacturing 2. Indirect 10.Direct 2. Selling 7. Administrative 3. Direct 11.Indirect 3. Manufacturing 8. Selling 4. Direct 12.Direct 4. Selling 9. Administrative 5. Direct 13.Direct 5. Administrative 10.Selling 6. Direct 14.Direct 7. Direct 15.Indirect 8. Indirect Problem 3 1
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Decision Making 13.3 Types of Costs 13.4 Types of Choices Decisions 13.5 Make or Buy Decisions 13.6 Addition / Discontinuance of a Product line 13.7 Sell or Process Further 13.8 Operate or Shut down 13.9 Exploring New Markets 13.10 Maintaining a desired level of profit 13.11 Summary 13.12 Terminal Questions 13.13 Answers to SAQs and TQs 13.1 Introduction In the previous unit we learnt about Marginal Costing. Marginal costing is the ascertainment of marginal cost and of the effect on profit
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each produce the same product and face a market demand curve described by: Q = 5000 - 200P Firm 1 has a unit cost of production c1 equal to 6 whereas firm 2 has a higher unit cost of production c2 equal to 10. a. What is the Bertrand-Nash equilibrium outcome? b. What are the profits for each firm? c. Is this outcome efficient? Answer: (a) At equilibrium‚ assuming that if both firms charge the same price‚ then the firms split the market evenly. (b) The higher cost firm makes zero profit
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Cost Accounting‚ 14e (Horngren/Datar/Rajan) Chapter 2 An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes Objective 2.1 1) Cost objects include: A) products B) customers C) departments D) All of these answers are correct. Answer: D Diff: 2 Terms: cost object Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 2) Actual costs are: A) the costs incurred B) budgeted costs C) estimated costs D) forecasted costs Answer: A Diff: 1 Terms: actual costing Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 3) The general term used to identify
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For what decisions would estimated cost information be useful if you were a hospital administrator? The Director of a Cinema hall? The Marketing vice president of a bank? Cost information is the information about the different costs that are incurred in the operation of the organization or a business process. Here the cost includes all cost like material cost‚ labor costs‚ and all other overhead costs that are incurred depending on the type of business
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80000 | Cost of oxygen etc. | 30000 | Diagnostic Services | 50000 | Medicines Supplied | 200000 | Depreciation | 38500 | Insurance | 15000 | Power‚ Fuel & Water | 20000 | The profit expected is 30% on cost. 1) Calculate the price per patient day. 2) Calculate P/L per patient day. Solution: No of Patient days is as below: 30 beds * 150 days = 4500 Patient days 10 beds * 50 days = 500 Patient days Total patient days = 5000 Patient days Operating Cost Sheet
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