Cost Accounting Traditions And Innovations - Chapter 18 pptx

... high- cost, high-volume services such as risk management and specialized executive training. • Cost- based or dual transfer prices are generally chosen for services that are low -cost, low-volume ... in the most cost- beneficial manner and to provide recommendations on service de- partment cost control. In addition, assigning service department costs to revenue- producing divisions...

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... company that an- chored its activities in treating customers, suppliers, work- force, and neighbors with fairness and respect. Stanley in- vited Clement T. Hanson, a brother-in-law and successful advertising ... summarization of in- formation easier and quicker. The sample forms should be easy to understand and may include standardized worksheets that allow managers to update histor...

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... regarding cost b. Committed cost understanding, cost containment, c. Cost avoidance cost avoidance, and cost reduction d. Cost consciousness 2. A cost incurred to provide physical or e. Cost containment ... 673) committed cost (p. 671) cost avoidance (p. 668) cost consciousness (p. 663) cost containment (p. 666) cost control system (p. 661) cost reduction (p. 6...

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... financial accounting information is useful to managers in performing their daily functions. Cost accounting creates an overlap between financial accounting and man- agement accounting. Cost accounting ... Orleans] The Times-Picayune (April 27, 1999), pp. C-1, 10. intellectual capital http://www.Rolls-Royce .com policy and especially wary of price-fixing, bribery, kick-backs,...

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... are used to measure and evaluate the decision maker’s performance. Techniques such as relevant costing, quality cost management, job order and process costing, and cost- volume-profit analysis, ... integrating cost management and performance mea- surement, and integrating investment management and strategic management. APPENDIX 18 Berliner and Brimson, Cost Management,...

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... unexpired costs (assets) and eq- uities (liabilities and owners’ capital); the income statement is a statement of rev- enues and expired costs (expenses and losses). The concept of matching revenues and ... distribution costs are expensed as incurred, managers should remember that these costs relate directly to products and services and should not adopt an “out-of-sight, out-of-...

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... multiple cost pools at a variety of levels (unit, batch, product, and organizational) and then allocates these costs using multiple cost dri- vers (both volume- and non-volume-related). Thus, costs ... their cost sys- tems and implement activity-based costing. Two-Step Allocation After being recorded in the general ledger and subledger accounts, costs are ac- cumulated in acti...

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... under both cost- plus and fixed- price contracts have an incentive to shift costs from the fixed-price to the cost- plus contracts? b. From an ethical perspective, do you feel such cost shifting ... April’s Cost of Goods Manufactured and Sold sched- ule showed cost of goods manufactured was $48,000, and the April 1 Finished Goods Inventory was $8,400. Chapter 5 Job Order Costi...

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... system? 5 PROCESS COSTING WITH STANDARD COSTS Companies may prefer to use standard rather than actual historical costs for in- ventory valuation purposes. Actual costing requires that a new production cost ... for standard process costing are identical to those of FIFO process costing. Unlike the weighted average method, the emphasis of both standard costing and FIFO are on the measuremen...

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... allows cost and man- agement accountants to better track the costs flowing into the problem areas, estimate the opportunity costs associated with the problems, and perform a more informed cost- benefit ... direct material and for con- version assuming a FIFO cost flow. b. If the costs per equivalent unit are $2.50 and $4.50 for direct material and conversion, respectively, what...

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