ACC512
Management Accounting for Costs & Control
Assessment Item 1
Midhun Ramachandran
Student ID: 11594000
Class: Wednesday 9am-12pm
Lecture - Dhanushka Wijayakantha
Answer 1- Management accounting
The three elements that drive or influence management accounting work are:
Compliance- It refers to the need to fulfil both external regulations as well as reporting requirements. Accounting personnel’s need to furnish proper recognition of expenses and revenues, and estimate assets and liabilities. Management accountants sketch and operate cost accounting system that determines inventories by affix costs to product.
Control- It refers to entire procedure of planning and control. Management accountants create thorough spending
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Answer 3 - Cost concepts
The statement “Cost accumulation to determine the cost of goods sold is an example of the control function of management accounting work” is false. cost accumulation suggests the route in which expenses are gathered and identified with specific client, group, employments, request, groups, division and strategy where as a control in management accounting work is identified with the complete method of planning and control of the organization organizing in evaluating the people performance with respects achieving the end objective furthermore in the outlining and working of framework in accomplishing organizational goals. (2016)
Answer 4- Manufacturing statement and income statement
Normal view:
Formula view:
Answer 5- Cost concepts
I disagree with the statement. Perpetual inventory or continues inventory system describes the method of trading stock where the information on inventory stock and the availability of stock in continues manner. It is made available through bar coding system and lately radio frequency identification (RFID) that allows the computer system to quickly read the inventory information. But this system can be vulnerable sometimes due to overstatement (phantom inventory) or understatement (missing of inventory).("Perpetual Inventory Definition | Investopedia", 2003). It occurs due to
The inventory has a financial importance as it is purchased and recorded at its historical cost or original cost. With respect to a perpetual inventory system, inventory accounts are continually controlled as goods are purchased and placed directly into the inventory account and then later taken out when sold. Therefore the inventory is properly recognized within the period it is sold. Furthermore
According to Gary Trainor, “When it comes to a business and corporate management, compliance refers to the company obeying all of the legal laws and regulations in regards to how they manage the business, their staff, and their treatment towards their consumers. The concept of compliance is to make sure that corporations act responsibility.” (Trainor, 2012).
A financial report that summarizes the amounts and types of costs that were incurred in the manufacturing process during the period is a: Manufacturing statement.
Rothschild, J. M., Lee, T. H., Bae, T., and others. "Survey of Physicians' Experience Using a Handheld Drug Reference Guide." (Presented at AMIA 2000 Annual Symposium). American Medical Informatics Association, Los Angeles, California, March 2000.
Perpetual inventory system is great and fast way for the business to carry on, however it can also lead to wrong numbers of stock by scanning the same product several times. Conducting a stocktake once a week if possible is important to check that everything is in place.
The following data were taken from the records of Clarkson Company for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.
III. From a perspective accounting, what are the “rules of game” that businesses must follow?.........................................
Assume that Pittman Company decides to continue selling through agents and pays the 20% commissions rate. Determine the volume of the sales that would be required to generate the same net income as contained in the budgeted income.
|6. |If Buffo plans to produce and sell 3,000 units next month, the expected contribution margin would be: |
A problem faced by a Restaurateur (Joe) as revealed by his Accountant-Efficiency Expert (Eff. Ex.)
|11. |Fox Company's contribution margin ratio is 20%. If the degree of operating leverage is 15 at the $225,000 sales level, net |
Compliance ensures that employees of a company conforms to a set of rules and users agree to follow the user policy.
A cost accounting system is a framework used by firms to estimate the cost of their products for profitability analysis, inventory valuation and cost control. Its goal is to advise the management on the most appropriate course of action based on the cost efficiency and capability. Cost accounting provides the detailed cost information that management needs to control current operations and plan for the future.
Cost accounting can be defined as the method where all the expenditures used during execution of business activities are gathered, categorized, examined and noted down (Horngren & Srikant, 2000). The data collected is then reviewed to reach a selling price or identify where investments are possible. The principal aim of cost accounting is advising the top administration or the top management on the most suitable method of action based on the cost capability and efficiency. Cost accounting offers the comprehensive cost information that assist the business regulate the present business operations and also enabling in future business plan. Since managers are supposed to make resolutions for their own firms, there is no need for the data
Managers use this accounting techniques to plan what to sale, on what price and how much to sale. It is also known as cost accounting.