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
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Costing Responsibility Centres and Products Case Study: Wilkerson Company Lessons learned from this topic and case study: 1. Managers need to be able to estimate the costs of different responsibility centres and products to assist with monitoring the performance of different departments and also to assist with decision making about product pricing‚ profitability of individual products‚ assist with decisions when making changes to product lines and various other managerial requirements such
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Activity-based Costing (ABC) An activity-based approach refines a costing system by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost objects. It uses the cost of these activities as the basis for assigning costs to other cost objects such as products or services. There are four levels of a cost hierarchy: 1- Output unit-level costs: costs of activities performed on each individual unit of a product or service. 2- Batch-level costs: costs of activities related to a group of
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1a) Activity based costing is a relatively new type of procedure that can be used as an inventory valuation method. The technique was developed to provide more accurate product costs. This improved accuracy is accomplished by tracing costs to products through activities. In other words‚ costs are traced to activities (activity costing) and then these costs are traced‚ in a second stage‚ to the products that use the activities. Another way to express the idea is to say that activities consume resources
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1. If Wilkerson were to cut prices‚ based on contribution margin‚ to just cover short-term variable costs‚ what consequences could it experience? (5 marks) Several break-even-point assumptions are made in calculation: 1) Total fixed costs do not change with volume‚ and will exist regardless if the products are sold or not. 2) Sales mix will be constant. The contribution-margin percentage is 66.1%‚ which means 66.1 percent of each sales dollar is available for covering fixed costs and making
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Chapter 18 ADDITIONAL ASPECTS OF PRODUCT COSTING SYSTEMS Changes from Tenth Edition Chapter 18 was modified to include discussions of customer-related and business-related cost drivers and recent evidence about the usage and success of activity-based cost systems. Approach Our treatment of job costing and process costing is as brief as we can make it and still get the general points across. Students do need to understand the general idea of these cost accumulation procedures; otherwise
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1. The Wilkerson Company is in the business of manufacturing valves‚ pumps and flow controllers. The company has been experiencing profit losses due to price reductions as a result of heavy competition in the pump category‚ which is considered a commodity product. In the valves category‚ Wilkerson seems to be a market leader with a loyal customer base. The valve business is less competitive‚ with no price reductions‚ and therefore the company has maintained its gross margin target while not compromising
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Strategic Management Accounting APC309 Individual assignment Weighting – 100% of the marks for this module This is an individual assignment of 3‚000 words‚ excluding the bibliography and any appendices. The word count MUST be shown on the front cover of the assignment. All of the learning outcomes for the module are being assessed in this assignment. The learning outcomes are shown in the section entitled “Marking Guide”‚ which is further on in this document. The University’s
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Assessment 2 – Individual By – Andrew Chan WILKERSON COMPANY Overview Wilkerson Company is facing a decline in profits and has attributed this to a severe price cutting exercise in their Pumps line of products‚ dropping the company’s pre-tax margin to less than 3%‚ far below the historically healthy 10% margins. It appears that gross margins on pump sales in the latest month had fallen below 20%‚ well below the budgeted gross margin of 35%. Although a recent increase to Flow Controllers
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1. According to the case‚ if using ABC‚ Wilkerson should pool overheads into five activities: machine-related expenses‚ setup labor cost‚ receiving and production control cost‚ engineering cost‚ and packaging and shipping cost. The cost pool/cost driver information for an Activity Based Costing (ABC) system for Wilkerson has already provided by table 1. Based on the information on table 1 and four exhibit in case‚ we can figure out that the total cost per unit of valves‚ pumps and flow controllers
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