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In addition, discuss how a manager would use the concepts in the articles you reviewed in managerial decisions.
Write an annotated bibliography of each article. Based on the articles you reviewed, discuss what you learned
Which costs would be utilized in making the decision to purchase the asset? Are future costs relevant in the decision-making process?
Explain what type of cost behavior you believe would be appropriate for each of these cost items. Be sure to include a link to company's website in your post.
Discussion Post- How do you think you would use activity-based costing in your future career?
Describe the differences between direct labor, direct material, manufacturing overhead, and nonmanufacturing costs, and list an example of each.
What is the definition of each costing method? Discuss how, when, and if the costing method could be used by EEC.
Is the production manager, Alan Tyler, acting ethically? What are Jackson's ethical obligations? To the president? To her friend?
What cost drivers might be appropriate for depreciation (DEP), operation and maintenance of plant (IPA), and general administration (IGA) overhead cost pools?
Calculate the contribution margin for each product based on your sales price and the variable cost for that product.
How do you think you would use activity-based costing in your future career?
Identify a publicly traded manufacturing company. BY publicly traded it means they have stock traded on an exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange.
Costing Methods: Compare the job order and process costing methods, and explain how each of these can be applied to the company.
List opportunities for cost-sharing and partnerships. Describe the associated challenges and risks, and suggest ways to ameliorate them.
How could the production reports in process costing also be used for controlling or improving operations?
Determine the cost of ending work in process inventory. Determine the cost of the units transferred to the next department.
Calculate JTM's weighed average cost of capital (WACC) based on two airlines trading in the capital markets - PDM and GAL.
Which do you think is more important for control of fixed overhead costs: the spending variance or the volume variance? Explain.
Discuss whether the WACCs are what you would expect. Discuss what might cause the differences in the two WACCs.
Suppose that a product can be sold at split-off for $5,000 or processed further at a cost of $1,000. Why should the product be processed further?
How do you think you will use cost-volume-profit analysis techniques in your career to make strategic business decisions?
What will it cost Downhill Boards to outsource the finishing process? At what demand level does it make sense economically to outsource the finishing process?
Analyze cost behaviors and production costing methods. Describe the characteristics of direct vs. indirect expenses and variable vs fixed expense.
Identify the method of calculating manufacturing costs for the company. Explain three reasons why Apple is using ABC (activity-based costing) method/