I. Introduction Arrowmark Vending has the contract to supply pizza at football games for a university. The operations manager‚ Tom Kealey‚ faces the challenge of determining how many pizzas to make available at the games. We have been provided with demand distributions for pizza based on past experience and know that Tom will only supply plain cheese and pepperoni and cheese combo pizzas. We also know that there is a fixed cost of $1‚000 allocated equally between the two types of pizzas‚ and that
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Absorption Costing vs. Variable (Direct) Costing Absorption cost systems are widely used to prepare financial accounts. These systems are designed to absorb all production costs (variable or fixed) into costs of units produced. Absorption costs techniques allow manufacturing costs to be traced and allocated into product costs. There are different types of absorption costing systems: job order costing‚ process costing‚ and ABC costing. In job order costing‚ costs are assigned to products in batches
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businesses are transforming labor into a more flexible (and variable) cost. Among such companies are Hewlett-Packard‚ General Electric‚ DuPont‚ Sun Microsystems‚ and British Airways. Discuss whether direct labor is a fixed or a variable cost. What are the pros and cons of management treating direct labor as a variable cost? Are there ethical issues to be considered here? Direct labor can be classified as a fixed cost or a variable cost‚ depending on how flexible the employer needs to be/can
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consumption rates. These approaches may be limited in effectiveness because of the relatively low variable cost of medical care. Variable costs (for medication and supplies) are saved if a facility does not provide a service while fixed costs (for salaried labor‚ buildings‚ and equipment) are not saved over the short term when a health care facility reduces service. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relative variable and fixed costs of inpatient and outpatient care for a large urban public teaching hospital
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Is the company correct in its decision of not manufacturing standard model compressors on Sundays? Why? Show your calculations. Decision making should be based on change of RELEVANT items ONLY. The company’s calculation is WRONG‚ as it takes into concern of irrelevant fixed cost. By double-counting depreciation‚ other Mfg. overheads‚ SG&A in Sunday’s cost; it distorts the P&L sheet. To correctly show cost structure for decision making‚ there are two different approaches‚ yet each should reach
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Assignment: Fixed Costs‚ Variable Costs‚ and Break-Even Point Exercise 10.1 During the sixth month of the fiscal year‚ the program director of the Westchester Home-Delivered Meals (WHDM) program decides to again recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP using the high–low method. Here are the number of meals served and the total costs of the program for each of the first six months: Month Meals Served Total Costs July 3‚500 $20‚500. August 4‚000 $22‚600. September 4‚200 $23
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also discuss a few shortcomings of the absorption approach and how it relates to management. And finally‚ we will see if Mr. Rosen’s decision would allow him to be considered for the CEO position. Absorption vs. Variable Costing (Contribution margin) “The main difference between variable costing and absorption costing is the accounting for fixed manufacturing costs.” (Horngren C. n.d.) This is never more evident than in this case study. Income statements prepared using these different methods
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drops and thus reducing income. CH-22.EX-7 Key Question A firm has fixed costs of $60 and variable costs as indicated in the table on the following page. Complete the table and check your calculations by referring to question 4 at the end of Chapter 23. a. Graph total fixed cost‚ total variable cost‚ and total cost. Explain how the law of diminishing returns influences the shapes of the variable-cost and total-cost
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Assignment: Fixed and Variable Costs‚ Break-Even Point Exercise 10.1 Recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP. What are the variable costs? What are the fixed costs? How many meals will the WHDM program need to provide during the fiscal year to reach the BEP? How much profit will the program earn if it completes its 45‚000-meal contract with the City of Westchester? The variable cost of service is $3.93 during the fiscal year the WHDM should provide 1‚011 meals to reach their
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Random Variable and Its Probability distribution “A random variable is a variable hat assumes numerical values associated with the random outcome of an experiment‚ where one (and only one) numerical value is assigned to each sample point”. “A random variable is a numerical measure of the outcome from a probability experiment‚ so its value is determined by chance. Random variables are denoted using letters such as X‚Y‚Z”. X = number of heads when the experiment is flipping a coin 20 times. There
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