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Accounting
This accounting report is intended to emphasize the importance of the role of a management accountant in business operational and financial decisions. The focus on two companies engaging in different lines of business with disparate conce Continue Reading...
The consultant allocates fixed costs based on the ratio of departmental square footage to total dealer square footage, adjusted by a weighting factor. The weighting factor takes into account various machinery, equipment, furniture, and fixtures loc Continue Reading...
Accounting
What is Accounting
Accounting is a term which is usually referred to when there is a formalized manner to hold an individual, firm or other organization to account. The process of accounting will usually involves the collection of data t Continue Reading...
However, they have also changed the face of the accounting profession in a way that will affect the education and conduct of accountants in the future. In the future, the accountant will have to do more than to balance the books. In order to underst Continue Reading...
The balance sheet presents the three elements of financial position namely, assets, liabilities and equity. The balance sheet highlights the accounting equation which provides: Assets = Liabilities + Equity. In a balance sheet presentation, assets a Continue Reading...
Accounting
Differential Cost
Differential Cost strategy when used by an educational entity such as UOS means that the institution determines what it would cost to offer alternative forms of education based on the number of students interested in ch Continue Reading...
An unaware analyst may think the second company to be better but in reality its low encouraging level is due to the fact that it is unable to secure additional funding. The companies may possess different capital structures and to attempt comparison Continue Reading...
Accounting for Decision Making
Shelter Partnership's Case Study
Purposes of Cost Information
The intended purpose of cost information is to provide a basis for determining the expenses and revenues associated with a particular activity (or cost ob Continue Reading...
However, when a shock happens that changes that pattern, the information is no longer relevant. In periods of turmoil, only the most up-to-date information is relevant. The usefulness of the information wanes quickly as the behavior of the company b Continue Reading...
Meanwhile, units of production method is computed using the on units of use rather than time. For example, particular machinery is depreciated based on the estimated number of units the Company expected to produce. Both method are more complex compa Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting
Managerial accountants are charged with all financial matters that do not pertain to the financial accounting statements. Within their company, they ensure that the company has good financial security, they perform analysis on Continue Reading...
Managerial Analysis
R&D activities fall into four pools with the following annual costs.
Market analysis $1,050,000
Product design 2,350,000
Product development 3,600,000
Prototype testing 1,400,000
Total
Activities Cost Drivers Estimated Continue Reading...
Many managers who already are involved with competition in time-based industries realize that manufacturing strategy is often influenced by the traditional cost management system and this proves to be a mistake as time management system might have w Continue Reading...
Product Costing systems (ABC, job costing, put costing, .) advanced topic managerial accounting the thesis statemenit a position body paper show evidence support position. The paper discuss opposite point view discuss position valid.
Product costing Continue Reading...
Management Accounting
Company Overview
Classic Pen Company is an organization specializing in the production of pens, the Classic Pen has been enjoying the low costs for the production of BLACK pens and BLUE pen, and the company has enjoyed the pr Continue Reading...
Financial Accounting
Accounting Concepts
Financial Statements (Regulatory oversight)
The rapid failure and bankruptcy of Enron has prompted severe criticism of the nation's financial reporting and auditing systems, which are fundamental to maintai Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting
Elkay is a manufacturer of sinks. The company has three plants, serving different markets. The Ogden plant is high-volume, low-margin production. The company has new technology that makes it an innovator in efficiency. The Lumb Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting:
Manufacturing Overhead:
The costs allocated to a cost object can be considered as fixed or variable as well as direct or indirect costs. There are two types of costing systems that are used by management accountants i.e. job- Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting
Strategic Management in Large Multinational Corporations
Strategic Sources, Inc. is a multinational organization that operates in 20 countries around the world. They offer a wide variety of products and services to their custo Continue Reading...
Petcharat & Mula (2010) discuss a conceptual model that is designed to assist the identification of environmental and social impact costs, and to improve the measurement of these costs. A key value of the Sustainability Management Accounting Sys Continue Reading...
ABC Cost Method
Activity-Based Costing (ABC) method is a calculation technique that was initially developed to enhance the profitability of products and selection of manufactured products optimal mix. This costing method can be defined as a techniqu Continue Reading...
Greater emphasis must be placed on studies to highlight the factors which affect the diffusion of these managerial accounting techniques which can increase an organizations productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. (Tan, 2002, p. 226) Innovative Continue Reading...
Management
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
Reasons that indicate that managers need to be knowledgeable about, understand, and use accounting information
Management accounting mechanisms are official systems for collecting, planning, and communicating infor Continue Reading...
ERP'S IN MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING CAPABILITIES
Managerial accounting intended provide managers information make decisions run company successfully. The information reliable, timely complete. Its provision, dictated
Effect of ERP's in managerial accou Continue Reading...
Profit Analysis and Costing for the 21st Century
Value costing is about looking at the different aspects of a business paying particular attention to the opportunity cost they represent, how much they are likely to financially benefit a firm, and h Continue Reading...
The mistake occurred when enthusiasts tried to use those data for other purposes such as 'strategic product decisions.' The average cost of production never could, and never will, be relevant for those classes of decisions where only the change in t Continue Reading...
The above extension or explanation of the responsibility of a managerial accounatant mainly highlights the fact that a managerial accountant has responsibilities not only to the finance department of an organization but also the entire team that is Continue Reading...
role of management accounting for Bravo plc and discusses its use as an effective management tool. Management accounting, also called managerial accounting, is concerned with providing information to managers inside Bravo, those who direct and contr Continue Reading...
Managerial Accounting
Why do you think the division was profitable immediately under the new ownership?
An organization uses cost allocation methods to determine the cost of one unit of its product. Cost allocation refers to the process of linking Continue Reading...
The notes in the around the Activity box are actions needing fixed at the present time such as detecting allocation and costs and most importantly the priorities of the hospital's maintenance.
The diagram then has a box drawn below labeled objects Continue Reading...
Direct costs are those that can be "attributed to the production of specific goods or services" (Investopedia, 2013). They can be labor, materials or other expenses. In contrast, indirect costs are those that cannot be directly attributed -- at least Continue Reading...
business environment, organizations are required to adhere to the environmental regulations in order to comply with the federal and state laws. One of the strategies that an organization can employ to be environmental friendly is to integrate an env Continue Reading...
Allocations
What drives consumption of costs?
In Activity-Based Costing (ABC), consumption of costs is driven by a company's activities (Investopedia, LLC, n.d.), such as production, administration and sales (Cokins, 2010, p. 9). The company's pro Continue Reading...
Sound Business Based on Sound Finances
Podosave Ltd. is a food retail organization for which I will present a financial analysis based on the information I gained and the knowledge I acquired as a result of my role within the business.
My Role
My Continue Reading...
Environmental Accounting
What kinds of information does a firm need to evaluate and choose among pollution abatement options?
Environmental accounting is a field of environmental science that deals with the identification of resources and their app Continue Reading...
Inventory Management
The author of this report is to speak on two major topics in this brief paper. The first topic is inventory management in the context of getting the right amount of a product where it needs to be and when it needs to be there. F Continue Reading...
Business 315 and Analyzing Direct Costs
Analyzing Costs
It is crucial for an organization to properly calculate semi-variable costs in order to allocate indirect and direct costs. These costs govern over direct materials, which are "materials that Continue Reading...
Accounting includes recording, summarizing, and reporting of the economic activities and events of an organization. It is pertinent in business decision-making and the management and control of operations. The financial statements reported by a compa Continue Reading...
Introduction
The delivery health care system takes into account the assimilation of physicians, healthcare facilities, together with other medical services with plan to facilitate the provision of the total continuum of medical care for its consumers Continue Reading...
The pizza sizes are 10 inches which is an individual, 12 inches which is a small, 14 inches which is a medium, 16 inches which is a large, 18 inches which is a super, and a 20-inch pizza which is a family size. The family size pizza gets about 37% Continue Reading...