Cost accounting

According to research there are several factors that impact cost and being able to analyze these factors is essential in understanding them. When looking at costs there are two types of cost fixed and variable. When looking at these cost factors the organization will need to determine a break even point or use the cost value analysis. As the break-even analysis is a subdivision of CVP most managers tend to use CVP method (Freedman, 2018). These two methods are used in determining the price…

means less resource depletion and less global warming. However, insulation costs money and we have a finite budget. Even if it is cost-effective to increase insulation levels, could this money be even more effectively spent on upgrading the windows, or the draft-proofing, or the energy systems? Also, (with some exceptions) insulation is not a structural material; we need thicker walls to contain thicker insulation. These walls cost more money, contain more materials and are more expensive to…

Assessment It has been a pleasure to work with Serious Reader Company (SRC) and I am pleased to present to you the 2016 Income Statement (IS). In compliance with your request, the Managerial accounting interpretation of the results and merely in gross margin income, statement was using Variable Costing. The cost classification is based in “all non-manufacturing categories”, direct, indirect and fixed. It also includes the recommended projection on how SRC can adjust its strategies. By looking…

Unit -1 Discussion Board 2 Douglas Hitchens Colorado Technical University ACC350-1704A-01 Managerial Accounting Practices Professor Bih Horng Chiang October 4th, 2017 How do managerial accountants support strategic decisions? When looking at how managerial accountants support strategic decisions, we must first look at as to how the managerial accountants role plays into the day to day business decisions of the company. Managerial accountants offer essential data to the organization by…

assigns manufacturing costs to a product or batches of products. This system is used when the end products are different from each other. The job cost companies will allocate the direct materials and direct labor actually used plus the manufacturing overhead to each job. The job costing is very popular not only in manufacturing, but also in service (accounting practices, law firms, etc) and builders and construction contractors. Job costing involves the following accounting activities: •…

Question 1 What is a supply chain system? A supply chain system is the flow of material which may be considered as raw, which in turn is transformed, and then sold to customers. This flow of material is normally split into three parts, which are the Upstream, Internal and Downstream. The Upstream is where the procurement of the material or multiple different materials is done. In a case where to produce a particular product, several raw materials are needed, then the different companies which…

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In this case, the firm does not make any profit because the explicit cost and the implicit cost are same. A firm would be willing to operate permanently at this price because a firm can have zero economic profit, but the accounting profit will still be positive (Miller, R. L. 2012). 3-According to miller, price discrimination refers to a situation in which a given product can be sold at more than…

traditionally applied overhead to its products as a function of material costs. Management believed using “material costs” as an allocation base made sense because thicker products (containing more material per lineal foot than thinner products) required more machine time to process as they demanded slower machine speeds. Additionally, drying time and energy consumption increase with thicker basis weights. (See Exhibit 1 for material costs associated with each product, or grade.) Thus, unit…

Jensen and Meckling develop theory in different stages 1. Introduction 2. Analysis the agency cost 3. Question regarding the organization & examiner the role of united liability 4. Provide basic concept agency cost 5. Brief summary and conclusions. Introduction. This article has been written by Jensen and Meckling in October 1976. This study inspects the property rights, agency and financial progress a theory of the ownership structure of the firm. The authors highlight on new matter which…