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Accounting for Managers G

Individual Assignment
Due Date: November 9, 2012

Topic:
Product costing

Ningbo lecturer: Ms. Huang HuiQin – E: huanghuiqin@nbu.edu.cn – P: 86-574-87600960
Student: Lê Uyên Phương (Phoebe) – E: leuyenphuongvn@yahoo.com – P: 86-15 757 829 310
Student ID: 1211125031

NBU Intake 12, 2012
Required: Examine the literature to identify the different perspectives on how a product’s cost may be formulated. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches to product costing that have been proposed, and assess which might be useful in ensuring that management accounting fulfils a more strategic role in manufacturing organizations.

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