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    Standard set without due care; Efficient or inefficient buying (e.g.‚ discounts); Buying different quality material from standard; Buying materials from a non‑usual source due to urgency; Utilising different labour from standard; Price changes due to economic conditions; scarcity of supplies; Choosing to incur additional discretionary fixed costs; More (or less) overtime hours used than budgeted. 2. Efficiency/usage/quantity variances: Standard is out of date‚ set without due care; Inefficient use of material/labour

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    Testing Forge.mil SCRUM Cloud Computing Case Studies Discussion Groups/List Servers/Blogs Education and Training Experts Literature Programs and Organizations Service Providers/Consultants Standards‚ Policies‚ and Procedures Cloud Computing News Cloud Computing Security Cloud Testing Conferences and Symposiums Cyber Security Open Source Cloud Computing Software Architecture Education and Training Experts FAQs‚ Glossary‚ and Acronyms Literature Programs and Organizations Related

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    retirement 3. Labor control attempts to obtain maximum efficiency from all employees without compromising standards of labor performance. (T) 4. Increases in sales volume tend to improve labor productivity. (T) * As his efficiency increase‚ the cost of labor per unit produced actually decrease. * Increase in sales volume results in greater employee efficiency at lower labor cost per unit 5. The key to successful labor cost control is paying the lowest possible dollar wage.(F) May

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    COST CONCEPTS AND COST ACCOUNTING By: Aman Jawahar Sarika Deepak Muneer CONTENTS         Concept of Cost Cost Accounting Terms in Cost Accounting Elements of Cost Meaning of Overheads Classification of Costs Methods of Costing Types of Costing MEANING: Cost Concept: The term ‘cost’ means the amount of expenses [actual or notional] incurred on or attributable to specified thing or activity. Cost means ‘the price paid for something’. Cost Accounting: Cost Accounting is concerned with recording

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    under efficient operating conditions absorption costing all manufacturing costs are assigned to products: direct material‚ direct labour‚ variable and fixed manufacturing overhead acceptable quality level (AQL) the defect rate at which total quality costs are minimised account classification method (or account analysis) the process in which managers use their judgement to classify costs as fixed‚ variable or semivariable costs accounting rate of return (or simple rate of return‚ rate of return on assets

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    advantages and disadvantages of computers When Charles Babbage invented the computer decades ago‚ he would probably not have realised the impact it would have on mankind’s future.The importance of computers in today’s world can hardly be over-emphasized. Computers have become so much an integral part of the modern age‚ that we also call thiss period as the computer age. In the initial years‚ the computer was a huge‚ and complex machine that was used for difficult work like performing calculations

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    voice over IP networks to reduce telephone and facsimile costs and to set the stage for advanced multimedia applications and services such as unified messaging‚ in which voice‚ fax‚ and e-mail are all combined. [Include description of selected VoIP product(s) or solution(s) here‚ including features‚ benefits‚ etc.] This business case explores the opportunities and benefits that can be realized in the deployment of VoIP product(s) or solution(s)‚ as well as the costs and associated risks involved

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    Cost management | Wilkerson Company Case | | 1. What is the competitive situation faced by Wilkerson? The competitive situation faced by Wilkerson is quite severe. Price cutting in its main product has led to a huge drop in profit. While price increase in another product line partially made up the loss. We will discuss the detailed situation line by line. (1) Valves It was the first product line developed by Wilkerson and its high quality brought it a loyal customer base. Even

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    Robotic Surgery: the impacts of costs‚ access‚ and quality As technology improves‚ surgical robots are rapidly gaining support among both doctors and patients across America. Today more than 900 hospitals have the da Vinci robot which is double the number in 2007. (Freyer‚ 2010) Da Vinci robots were first approved by the FDA in 2000 for prostate removal‚ but now da Vinci robots are used for a variety of other surgical procedures (Freyer‚ 2010). Robot assisted surgery offers advantages such as

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    following data have been recorded for recently completed Job 501 on its job cost sheet. Direct materials cost was $3‚067. A total of 30 direct labor-hours and 104 machine-hours were worked on the job. The direct labor wage rate is $12 per labor-hour. The company applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of machinehours. The predetermined overhead rate is $11 per machine-hour. The total cost for the job on its job cost sheet would be: A. $4‚571 B. $3‚757 C. $3‚090 D. $3‚427 Applied manufacturing

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