ACCT1110 February 22‚ 2014 Quiz 6 If you are starting out in a new business‚ especially a service/manufacturing business‚ understanding the cost accounting system and which cost accounting system will work best for your company‚ is the first step to being successful. Once you find someone to help you navigate those waters‚ let them help you sail the rough seas of direct and indirect inventory‚ direct and indirect labor costs‚ and how to allocate factory overhead as well. While it all may
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Apple Valley Family Practice July 2013 Cost Allocation Methodologies Prepared for Group Executive Committee Nadine Presented by Apple Valley Family Practice July 2013 Cost Allocation Methodologies Prepared for Group Executive Committee Nadine Presented by Introduction Apple Valley Family Practice is a medical practice with four locations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The clinical staff consists of 20 physicians‚ all of whom practice in one or more areas of family medicine
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QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 15 (COST OF CAPITAL) 1.) The Wind Rider Company has just issued a dividend of $2.10 per share on its common stock. The company is expected to maintain a constant 7% growth rate on its dividends indefinitely. If the stock sells for $40 a share‚ what is the company’s cost of equity? 2.) The Ball Corporation’s common stock has a beta of 1.15. If the risk free rate is 5% and the expected return on the market is 12%‚ what is Ball Corp.’s cost of equity capital?
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The Cost of Absenteeism Any company’s successful operation depends in large part on the attendance of its employees. Unnecessary or unexcused absences affect company operations. Some absences are unavoidable. Others are worth taking steps to control. Absenteeism costs companies more money every year. Can you figure out what absenteeism costs your company in any given month? Can you multiply that by 12 to see what it costs in a year? Remember‚ this isn’t taking into account the cost of replacing
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lub Background Cost Club is a growing retailer‚ similar to Super Wal-Mart or Target. It provides discount merchandise and supermarket products in large stores located in many areas of the United States. Cost Club is administratively organized into regions‚ and each region is permitted to develop its own operational policies‚ as long as the bottom line of low cost and reasonable service to customers is maintained. There are many strong competitors to Cost Club‚ with some regions experiencing more
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1. Why does Mr. Butler have to borrow so much money to support this profitable business? 2. Do you agree with his estimate of the company’s loan requirements? How much will he need to borrow to finance his expected expansion in sales (assume a 1991 sales volume of $3.6 million) 3. As Mr. Butler’s financial adviser‚ would you urge him to go ahead with‚ or to reconsider‚ his anticipated expansion and his plans for additional debt financing? As the banker‚ would you approve Mr. Butler’s loan
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to do cost-effectiveness calculations in a nutshell: Noncompeting choice Noncompeting choice cost effectiveness is when you have many possible options to choose from that are NOT mutually exclusive. Noncompeting choice cost effectiveness uses the average cost effectiveness. This means you simply divide the cost of the intervention by the benefit of the intervention. For example: Intervention QALY Gained (~DALY eliminated) Net Cost A 50 $1000 B 3 $300 C 40 $1200 The average cost
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economics and business decision-making‚ sunk costs are retrospective (past) costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Sunk costs are sometimes contrasted with prospective costs‚ which are future costs that may be incurred or changed if an action is taken. Both retrospective and prospective costs may be either fixed (continuous for as long as the business is in operation and unaffected by output volume) or variable (dependent on volume) costs. Note‚ however‚ that many economists consider
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Transportation Cost & Pricing Transportation Cost & Pricing Compare and contrast the cost structures of rail‚ motor carriers‚ and air. When you compare the rail cost structure to that of the cost structures of the motor‚ and air carriers‚ you will see that the rail carriers have a high structure cost. “One of the characteristics of railroads as previously noted is the level of fixed costs present in their cost structures.” (Coyle‚ 2011) These fixed cost exists because the ownership of
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use of a single burden rate. Burden costs of the testing rooms as well as other costs such as admin were grouped into a single cost pool and then divided by the total labor dollars. This resulted to a single burden rate of 145% of direct labor dollars (cost driver). This method is not appropriate for Seligram because the information on the case present that direct labor hours and machine hours vary by product line and activity. In addition‚ the burden cost of the main and test room also significantly
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