Fine Foods Inc. Managerial Accounting

The week four individual paper addresses the implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC) by Super Bakery, Inc., a virtual corporation founded by Franco Harris. Specifically, management strategies, the reasoning behind an ABC system, and the alternatives of a job order cost system or a process order cost system are assessed for this enterprise.

cognizant of the fact that the choices he makes can affect the price a buyer pays

a service department’s costs have been allocated, costs are not reallocated back to it under

In the documentary Food Inc. declares that most americans have no idea where their food comes from because the food industries does not inform the people on how they process their food to make it look as appetising. Chicken farm owners that work for Tyson are required to follow the rules of Tyson because if any Tyson employee’s, break any type of rules they are required to follow they will be fired or being threatened with getting fired. For example, Tyson requires that if they let anyone video record inside the chicken houses they would be fired because chickens are trapped in a tent, and the chickens are standing in their own feces. These chickens are so big that can only walk up to 3 steps, and then sit back down.

An in depth analysis of the current costing methods used by the beverage distribution company, Johnson Beverage Inc.

Essentially, with the current cost system, the managerial analysis is highly flawed due to a lack of crucial in-depth cost information, as indicated by:

After closely reviewing the financial and production data, our accounting team has found that your traditional cost allocation is faulty and misleading. The costs of products A and C were over allocated and products B and D were under allocated causing deceptive information on the true profits of the company. Also, product B appears to be

Businesses – from manufacturing, merchandising and service industries alike – take careful considerations for their costing systems. Setting-up competitive prices in the market can be a result of proper costing methods. Misallocation of costs may lead to incorrect price estimates, continuous production of unprofitable products, and ineffective processing schedules. In this case study, we will discuss the costing methods Zauner Ornaments are currently using and upon conclusion, it will enable us to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of each costing method.

Company operates in the Industrial Sector – Services, and Industry – Regional Airlines. According to the Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC), company belongs to the industry group 451: Air

with a number of strategic issues facing a capital-intensive, mature industry. Their product costing system was

With this system each customer’s order cost the same amount to complete causing orders with high profit limits to subsidized orders with low profit limits making it difficult for Super Bakery to know the true cost for an order. The company changed to the activity-based costing (ABC) system allowing the managers the ability to recognize the cost and profit margins for each sale. The ABC system associates the costs with the activities allowing managers the opportunity to access a system that allocates overhead costs that uses multiple bases. Costs can be traced back to each individual’s account regardless of the product provider letting managers know which products are profitable and which ones are not. The traditional costing system allocates cost to departments or jobs instead of overhead cost pools. The traditional costing system makes it difficult to know which activity or product is making a profit.

For instance, the concept of cost estimation which assists in estimating future expenditure as the expenditure depends on the cost of the respective activities can be applied in the setting of a budget which is simply an estimate and schedule of all costs required to be assigned to an activity. One can make an estimation of the resources required for an activity by applying the cost estimation techniques. Since there are limiting factors to each activity such as scarcity of resources for activities, the concept of constraints can be applied together with the concept of cost volume profit analysis to ensure that maximum benefits are driven from the scarce resources and the number of activities that are available. This facilitates the allocation of resources that most equitable and profitable. The theory of constraints is also applicable in the process of setting up budgets. In setting up budget one considers the amount of resources that are available and cannot therefore set a budget plan that exceeds the amount of resources that are available. This implies that the budget is constrained by the amount of

Australia’s food and beverage industry is anticipating significant growth, with a majority of food and beverage executives expecting increases in revenues (84% of executives) (Thornton, 2013). For the purposes of this report, the focus will be on the product costing systems in place at Voodoo Ltd, concentrating on their applicability and effectiveness. Our aim is to identify the weaknesses in Voodoo Ltd’s current operations which may impede its growth in what is a dynamic and fast paced industry. Currently Voodoo Ltd is in a battle to retain its momentum as a leading firm in the food and beverage industry as it faces strong competition from competitors who are out performing them in production rates and at lower prices

Over the years, many of our managers and higher officials have had trouble making business decisions due to the way our P&Ls were structured. We faced several challenges when trying to negotiate with our customers because we were unable to show a cost break down which took into account every aspect of the production process. Although, there are some advantages with the traditional costing approach, such as it aligns with general cost accounting principles, ease of implementation in companies that provide a specific product, it had several drawbacks, such as:

the  strategic  management  accounting  technique  used  and  Carlianne will provide  an  analysis of our results.  Courtney