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While we are performing our analysis on different aspects of the company, we look at the three main types of cost. When we remain devoted to improving our costs, and the faults related, we show our same devotion to our consumers. This is portrayed by the quality of products we put on the shelves. Prevention costs, appraisal costs and Failure costs are areas

The budget analysis shows that the labor hours of the firm are higher than the budgeted amount. As such, the firm needs to evaluate the cost benefit analysis of making or buying their products. To make this decision, various factors need to be considered. Before making the decision, Peyton needs to evaluate the marginal costs and revenue of making versus buying the products. The firm should take the option which provides the highest marginal profit which is the

Calculate the value of the tax shields as the present value of the tax shield horizon value and the individual tax shields.

United Metals has decided to launch the production of a new product, the firm is expecting this project to last over 8 years. The issue at hand is to know whether it would be more advantageous for United Metals to produce the components itself or to directly buy them from one of its suppliers, Amalgamated Components. In order to arbitrage between the “make” and “buy” decision we will calculate the Net Present Value of both these options. In order to do so we will first compute the annual cash flows that would result from one or the other option.

(15 points) Your company is evaluating two different water purification systems for its main factory: Option X will cost $3.00 million and $500,000 annually to operate, and has a life of five years. Option Y will cost $4.80 million and $20,000 per year to operate, and has a life of six years. Straight-line depreciation is to be used, and both systems will be depreciated fully over their respective lives. The systems will have no salvage values at the end of their respective lives. Suppose your company is very profitable, has a discount rate of 10%, and the corporate tax rate is 40%.

When it comes to decision making across the organization, managers must have an understanding of cost effectiveness, selling, pricing, and budgeting. The organization must be able to accurately budget for variable cost as well as fixed cost while maintaining an increase in profit and revenue. In this paper, I will discuss the different view-points of decision making across the organization.

Primarily cost and management accounting is meant for providing information to the management to enable them making planning and control. Budgeting and budgetary control are tools which can be used by the management to efficiently discharge both the management functions. Budgeting is formal management plan of actions incorporating estimated qualitative and/quantitative facts and figures. Cost analysis, on the other hand, is a process of evaluating, and analysing cost data according to their nature and behaviour to changing circumstances. Effective cost analysis is a prerequisite for preparing different meaningful flexible budgets and also for making effective comparison between budgeted and actual results. The rest of the paper consists of

A cost analysis can be conducted in order by companies in order to estimate their cost when making decisions (Douglas, 2012). Managers can various methods to analyze costs for decision making purposes these are total variable cost, average variable cost, marginal costs (Douglas, 2012). In addition the company can use profit maximization and marginal revenue to help make decisions (Douglas, 2012). This paper will analyze two different scenarios and use various methods to help them make the decisions at hand.

As alluded in the introduction, the role and effective use of costing techniques may vary depending on a certain number of contextual variables and objectives. This section explores these variables and thus provides a critical assessment of the roles and uses of the techniques.

This case is reprinted from Cases in Cost Management, Shank, J. K. 1996, South Western Publishing

The managing director of Gouna Limited, Andy Birk, relies on shareholders’ requests and his own interests when making decisions on new ventures or the development of a new product/service. This means that the Director does not consider other factors that may be influential in the decision making process. Making decisions based on his own interests makes the situation worse as there is no consultation with the rest of the shareholders or any expert that can offer valuable advice. Besides, the decisions are made without proper understanding of the costs associated with different business activities. This manner of decision making is bound to have detrimental effects on the company especially in its finances. This report discusses the need for proper understanding of cost behaviour at Gouna Limited. It also examines two of the methods used in deriving a cost function, and explains the Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis method.

When managers make decisions they need to compare the costs (and benefits) among alternative actions. In this chapter, we discuss how to estimate the costs required for decision making (Lanen, 2008).

In today’s world, managers face the difficult everyday decisions which ought to be considered in relation to an ever increasing wide range of different criteria in the making of corporate decisions. In fact, in the past, such decisions more often than not, were judged purely on the basis of a single or solitary attribute such as the resultant profit or the loss or even the cost that will eventually amount if the venture is either a success or a failure. However, it must be noted that the cost of profit alone has proven that it is not able to fully capture the variant concept of desirability in relation to whether to choose a particular decision or its resulting alternative. Of particular note, are the decisions which involve the issues of

Depreciation is the decline in the future economic benefits of a depreciable non-current asset through wear and tear and obsolescence. It is an allocation process. It can be calculated by two main methods, each reflecting in a distinct prospect in the way the asset is used. Depreciation is to be treated as an estimated expense that does not set aside cash for the replacement of a non-current asset. In determining the cost of acquisition of the lathes, any capital expenditure made must be added to the purchase price of the lathes. This amount will be considered as the historical cost and will be used in calculating the depreciation expense

When properly implemented, the cost accounting function can have a pervasive influence in the modern corporation. Unfortunately, it is not always properly implemented because management often is not completely aware of all the uses to which the cost accounting function can be put. This chapter describes the main categories of activities in which this function can become involved, and can be used as a guide by the controller in creating a well-rounded niche for the cost accountant.