Cost Control and Cost Reduction A business enterprise must survive‚ grow‚ and prosper. Cost Control and Cost Reduction are activities necessary for ensuring that these objectives are fulfilled. With the liberalization of the Indian Economy and Globalization‚ there is now a cut throat competition from various concerns of the world. As a result there is now a race to secure a place for survival. This has increased the importance of cost control and Cost Reduction. Cost Control “Cost control
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expense or depreciation cost is fixed cost or variable cost in nature? Fixed costs: Fixed costs are such costs that do not change with the change in activity level within the relevant range. Where relevant range can be defined in terms of time or activity level. Variable costs: Variable costs are such costs that change with the change in activity level . Coming to the question‚ depreciation expense or depreciation cost can either be fixed or variable and this depends on the method adopted to measure
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Quality Cost 1 Quality is defined from the customer´s point of view l Performance l Performance or the primary operating characteristics of a product or service. Example: For a car‚ it is speed‚ handling‚ and acceleration. For a restaurant‚ it is good food. l Features l Features or the secondary characteristics of a product or service. Example: For a TV‚ it is an automatic tuner. For a restaurant‚ it is linen table cloths and napkins . l Reliability l Reliability
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Role of Cost Accounting and Ethical Consideration Role of Cost Accounting and Ethical Consideration Introduction Cost accounting is used to help management understand how much it cost to run a business. Understanding the role of cost accounting is important when one is trying to put together a team of managers to help run the company. The CEO of a merchandising organization needs to hire a CFO to run the accounting system‚ but the CEO has little understanding of cost accounting. The CEO
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Hstorical Cost Accounting Advantages and disadvantages of historical cost accounting‚ alternatives to historical cost accounting 2.1 Introduction Accounting concepts and conventions as used in accountancy are the rules and guidelines by which the accountant lives. The historical cost accounting convention is an accounting technique that values an asset for balance sheet purposes at the price paid for the asset at the time of its acquisition. The historical cost accounting is the situation
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Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting Lecturer: Nadini Persaud Contact Information: Email: nadini.persaud@cavehill.uwi.edu npersaud07@yahoo.com Office Location: Upstairs Main Library Tel: 417-4296 (DOMS General Office) 417-4297 (NP Office) March 2nd 2013 mid-term exam Contents Decision Making 3 Theory of Constraints 4 IMA Guidelines for Ethical Behavior 4 Competence 4 Confidentiality 5 Integrity 5 Credibility 5 Corporate Social Responsibility
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Cost reduction Generally defined as the act of cutting costs to improve profitability. Cost reduction‚ should therefore‚ not be confused with cost saving and cost control. Cost saving could be a temporary affair and may be at the cost of quality. Cost reduction implies the retention of essential characteristics and quality of the product and thus it must be confined to permanent and genuine savings in the costs of manufacture‚ administration‚ distribution and selling‚ brought about by elimination
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100 Costs term 1. Absorption costing is a costing method that includes all manufacturing costs - direct materials‚ direct labor‚ and both variable and fixed overhead - as part of the cost of a finished unit of product. 2. Administrative costs are all executive‚ organizational‚ and clerical costs associated with the general management of an organization rather than with manufacturing‚ marketing‚ or selling. 3. Allocation base is a measure of activity such as direct labor-hours or machine-hours
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DESKTOP NORTHWIND SAMPLE DATABASE 2007 STRUCTURE REPORT Brief Introduction: Database Name: Northwind Site/Server Name: Local Data Stored of Year: 2006 Total Objects: 6 (Tables‚ Queries‚ Forms‚ Reports‚ Macros‚ Modules) Total Tables: 20 Total Queries: 27 ‚(27 views) Total Forms: 34 Total Reports: 15 Total Macros: 2 Total Modules: 6 modules and 2 class modules A Complete Physical Schema of Tables Table: Customers Properties DateCreated: 11/30/2012 2:39:00
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traditional volume-based system to an activity-based costing (ABC) system after reading about the two-stage procedure to assign overhead cots to products. Chuck questioned if the current cost-management system was providing the management with accurate data about product costs. In a traditional‚ volume-based product-costing system‚ only a single predetermine overhead rate is used. All manufacturing-overhead costs are combined into one cost pool‚ a grouping of individual indirect cost items‚ and they are
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