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the amounts WG billed to the two clients for May 2014? Comment on the differences between the amounts billed in requirements 1 and 2. 3. How would you determine whether professional labor costs or professional labor-hours is the more appropriate allocation base for WG’s support services? 5-21 (10–15 min.) ABC, process costing. Parker Company produces mathematical and financial calculators and operates at capacity. Data related to the two products are presented here: Total manufacturing

Apple Valley Family Practice July 2013 Cost Allocation Methodologies Prepared for Group Executive Committee Nadine Presented by Apple Valley Family Practice July 2013 Cost Allocation Methodologies Prepared for Group Executive Committee Nadine Presented by Introduction Apple Valley Family Practice is a medical practice with four locations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The clinical staff consists of 20 physicians, all of whom practice in one or more areas of family medicine

Chapter 4 Case 2: Greetings Inc.: Activity-Based Costing Solution: 1. An activity-based costing system may be appropriate for Wall Décor, when overhead allocation based job-order costing provides product cost distortion. As seen on previous case, this distortion happens when one product is manufacturing in high volume and the others are manufacturing in complexity as well as in low volume. In this situation Wall Décor should change its costing system for selling its high volume produced

considering that Saver Superstore is an easy to deal with partner unlike some other customers that make the business spent a lot of time on their rush orders .This comment brought Johnson to wonder about the customer service costs structure and allocation system. The current system allocates these costs based the revenue generated by each customer which assign a large share to Saver Superstore the biggest one. JBI’s accountant Thomas suggested collecting information about the time and the amount

on the activities that cause the costs to be incurred. The second stage involves allocating the costs in the activity costs pools to products through the use of a variety of cost drivers. Furthermore, activity-based costing generates a suitable allocation since it disperses the applicable overhead costs to the appropriate products. Also, it enhances precision in ascertaining the costs of products and services. Therefore, it calls attention to the need to acquire a better

Cost Allocation ACC/561 April 23, 2012 Cost Allocation The purpose of cost allocation is to identify and correctly allocate costs associated with a job, product, or service. The main uses of cost allocation are to facilitate decision-making regarding costs, justify prices charged for products and services, cost control, and for optimal utilization of resources. There are several methods used for cost allocation, depending on the type of product or service offer by the company. Variable

University of Manchester not only charges its social responsibilities for the people in school, but also does them for the people around the world. So the question about how University of Manchester can perfectly perform its social responsibility is really considerable. The topic of my essay will be that management contributes to the University of Manchester’s vision for social responsibility through achieving a delicate balance in allocating resources. I will mainly introduce the idea about how

Inappropriate structure may decrease flexibility and may also weaken organizational ability to be in harmony with the environment especially whenever the organization needs alteration in the strategic priorities in order to improve its competitive place. Allocation of the highest priority to the structure may show inefficiency of the efforts of contractual companies managers in order to prepare structural sequences which may help execution of strategies in addition to facilitate activities of the companies

allocation rates to make them more efficient. Second, policy makers could change allocations to reflect more accurate precipitation rates along with being more efficient. Third, a market based system could be implemented allowing for tradeable water rights much like the market system in Australia. All of these policy options would solve the inefficiencies in the current allocation rates. They would not solve the supply and demand complications due to the ongoing drought or growing populations. The

The five limitations of modern patrol allocation models are as follows: 1) Modern patrol allocations will only be accurate if the data that is input is accurate; if the data is not accurate, then the allocation model results will also be inaccurate (Fritsch, Liederbach, Taylor & Caeti, 2009, pg. 41). 2) Police administrators cannot solely rely in modern patrol allocation models to determine the amount of officers needed for patrol; instead modern patrol allocation models can only serve as an extra tool