Running head: ANALYSIS OF DIRECT COSTS Friday, August 22, 2014
Analysis of Direct Costs
Kristin Velix
Professor Bartillomo
Strayer University
Introduction
Developing and building a drone is one thing while developing a navigation system is completely another aspect. A drone can be considered a toy without a well-engineered design and functional navigation system. The navigation system is mainly used to give commands to the drone to undertake actions that are compatible with the development of the drone. With all the funds that are put into the development of the drones, the navigation system is developed in manner that cannot be prone to outside interference like hackers, terrorist or anyone that
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These employee’s include engineers, assistants, secretaries, drivers, human resources, trainers, marketers and accounting, all employees indirectly related to the production and sale of the product.
VectorCal’s navigation systems have two types of Material costs as well, direct materials and indirect materials. Materials or supplies are the basic elements that are transformed into the finished product through the use of labor and manufacturing overhead costs in the production process. The material costs can be direct or indirect materials are those that can be identified with the production of the finished product, which can be easily seen as part of the product and represents a significant cost of the finished product. Indirect materials are parts or supplies that are involved in the production process of the article, but not classified as direct materials. A good example would be nuts and bolts used in the production process, and as such are considered an indirect materials manufacturing cost.
A comparison of the direct and indirect cost that is associated with the navigation system within VectorCal and my company.
The main cost within the development of a navigation system for VectorCal’s or Remote Control Unlimited’s drone, will be in labor and material cost. The labor cost will mainly be used in the acquisition of highly trained and experienced programmers. The programmers will have to work in a team since the
After Glaser management has identified the handful of the activities that connect overhead expenses to products, they must use the appropriate measure (the cost driver) to tie the overhead expenses to the product lines or service lines. To achieve this management must specify an appropriate cost driver for tracing costs associated with the various levels of activities to the next cost objective or products. The cost drivers can include a number of things such as direct labor hours, number of batches, or number of employees. (Appendix C shows the appropriate cost driver with the various levels of activities).
Brewer, C. P., Garrison, H., R., & Noreen, W., E., (2005). Introduction to Managerial Accounting, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
The current cost system is based on two components: a direct and indirect cost measurement.
The navigation systems that both VectorCal and my new company produce are needed to reduce if they are combined produce goods that is disadvantage of the BAA requirements. On the basis of the BAA requirement related to the navigation system needed that the both VectorCal and my new company should reduce produce if they are combined to come up with one navigation system that requirement impacts on the performance of both companies. In generally, if both VectorCal and my new company will work as a single company then they faced disadvantage of the BAA requirements (Dodaro, 2011). Moreover, if both VectorCal and my new company will perform as a single firm then the probability of win tenders or government supply goods orders will also be decreased. This situation indicates that the BAA requirements with the navigation system can be disadvantages to both firms if they perform as a single
This paper intends to discuss a proposal on analysis of cost and price. The proposal describes a company known as Hi-delta which is a new start company which targets the industry of drone navigation systems.
On the other hand, direct costs represent labor, materials, equipment, and sometimes subcontractors. They are assigned directly to a work package and activity. When project durations are imposed, such as in the racing sailboat project, direct costs may no longer represent low-cost, efficient methods. As detailed in the crash cost list, costs for the imposed duration date will be higher than for a project duration developed from ideal normal times for
When the demand for a product declines, or if competition forces the business to cut prices, the company has to reduce the cost of labor to stay profitable. The main cost associated with the production of the drone navigation system for VectorCal is material cost and
First, we have heard that the new of the united states presence talking about the Middle East, you will hear a topic very frequently worry with drone recognition. The government will be involved in the process of trying to use drone technology in warfare. We have read information about the usages of drone missiles attacks on bad people with was done by drones. In warfare, the usage of drone technology will be increasing. “Now drones are not gathering information, but are used to operate in combat “(“The uav”, 2012, P1). With the use of advances in technology quickly being developed, companies are now starting to develop an opportunity to size them. They are starting to build their own things to use for was but also for people in today’s world (Wolfgang, 2012, P1). Next, drones which are known as UAVs (Un-manned Aerial Vehicles), are vehicles that do not need a person physically being there to use drones.
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Under the new cost system, two broad sources of costs were identified: manufacturing and SM&A. All costs within these categories were reclassified as either volume driven or order driven. Hence, four cost pools were set up.
1. Direct costs: - Direct costs which can be defined as the ability to accurately track the cost of a few efforts to cost objects. Cost object may be a product, classification of any fee, a division of the direct costs of a project, such as usual benefit of a single cost object either directly or indirectly as a cost object by Perspective. A specific cost may be direct costs of a cost object, but the indirect costs of other cost objects.
To answer the question we must first define a drone. A drone is a pilot less aircraft
b) Cost of goods and services: In manufacturing companies, the costs of goods must be measured to determine the cost of items transferred from work in process inventory to finished products. To meet the demands for information, a cost system should measure all the costs of manufacturing process and allocate a portion of those costs to each unit of output. The cost to obtain, maintain and manage the manufacturing plant or building should be added to the cost of material and productive work that requires each unit. The first are called indirect costs and the two last are called direct costs.
Drone technology is advancing rapidly and it is changing the way in which things are being done. Drones are widely used by many people as a hobby or for career purposes, as well as for military purposes by the United States. Drones provide the U.S military with many benefits, which helps the military to operate efficiently and in a safe manner. Businesses are utilizing this technology as well in order to make their companies run more efficiently, as well as to improve their customer service. Drone technology will positively impact our society; drastically change our culture and political system and definitely advance our economy as well as help enhance our environment.
In this assignment I will be discussing how costs incurred in any organization may be classified in a number of different ways for a number of different purposes. I will also be looking to find companies that use a variety of different costing techniques and methods. I will also be discussing the comparisons between marginal and absorption costing and how the concept of activity based costing can also be compared with these. To complete the assignment I will be using a combination of lectures notes, text books and the internet to research the various ways of cost classification, and how different companies use these, to enable me