Introduction:
1.1 MIS Reporting
The concept of the Management Information System has evolved over a period of time comprising different facets of the organizational function. MIS is a necessity of all the organizations. The basic purpose of MIS is to collect data from the organization and present it in the format of reports at regular intervals.
MIS or Management Information System is a system used by most organizations worldwide for transforming data into useful information for better decision making. It helps management make better plans and carefully organize business operations.
Management information system is used for generating reports including inventory status reports, financial statements, performance reports etc. These reports
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Costs are assigned to products, usually in a large batch, which might include an entire month's production. Eventually, costs have to be allocated to individual units of product. It assigns average costs to each unit, and is the opposite extreme of Job costing which attempts to measure individual costs of production of each unit. Process costing is usually a method of assigning costs to units of production in companies producing large quantities of homogeneous products. Process costing is a type of operation costing which is used to ascertain the cost of a product at each process or stage of manufacture. CIMA defines process costing as "The costing method applicable where goods or services result from a sequence of continuous or repetitive operations or processes. Costs are averaged over the units produced during the period". Process costing is suitable for industries producing homogeneous products and where production is a continuous flow. A process can be referred to as the sub-unit of an organization specifically defined for cost collection …show more content…
Therefore, they cannot be identified and allocated directly to a particular unit of output. As such, they are to be allocated among the units of output or to the different cost centers. Allocation of overheads is the process of charging overhead costs to a particular department or cost center. It is the allotment or assignment of an overhead cost to a particular cost unit. Examples: Allocation of depreciation to a particular cost center, allocation of cost of power to particular facility.
Apportionment: Distribution of an overhead cost to several departments or cost centers is known as apportionment of overheads. It is the process of charging or apportioning costs to a number of cost centers or cost units. If a given cost is common to two or more departments or cost centers, such cost should be apportioned or divided among these departments on an equitable basis. For example, the amount of factory rent should be apportioned to all the departments.
Reapportionment of Service Centers Cost to the Production or the Cost centers
These costs can be both personnel and non-personnel and both direct and
Analysis c. How does Wilkerson’s existing cost system operate? Develop a diagram to show how costs flow from factory expense accounts to products. Costing systems help companies determine the cost of a product related to the revenue it generates. Two common costing systems used in business are traditional costing and activity-based costing.
Abby prefers to allocate indirect cost using activity-based costing for these orders, but recognizes that not all costs are driven by volume of output. Abby prepares a
This should be inconsideration by ensuring that the facility layout is proper and conforms to the behavior of the customers e.g. separating the customer care desk from the cashiers’ counters. Also this is done by ensuring that the capacity is able to contain the production such as where houses which Walmart has several distribution centers in the different states thus enabling the products to reach the
Based on our calculations in Appendix 1. at the first stage support costs were allocated to two existing departments, i.e. Machining and Assembly, based on direct labor hours. Therefore total amount of costs assigned to Machining department is $472.000,00 and to Assembly department is $248.000,00. At the second stage total costs from both departments were distributed to products (Regular and Deluxe). Referring to our calculations in Appendix 1.
Solution : Introduction: A budget is an estimation of particular commodity, quantity etc. It can be prepared for any number of days but generally it is prepared wither for a year or quarter... A budget may or may not become the actual outcome.
Q. 2. Recent development in Technology has enabled huge global organizations to avail information easily in their premises for smooth functioning of various departments within an organization. Much of a company's success comes down to its Supply Chain Management and logistics. The development of Information Systems in SCM helps in cost reductions, customer satisfaction and productivity.
This condition led me towards problem related with shortage of time at the time of submission of the project. On other hand, I also faced some critical issues related with understanding and interpreting the subject and research context. Prior to the project, I used to possess only elementary knowledge of Management Information System and its implication in real life scenario. In
Health care cost has seen to increase gradually as years go by. This has been influenced by major factors such as political influence, emerging chronic diseases, new procedures that are coming up including the technologies being invented for treating illnesses, pricing of medicines and treatment is not regulated and when treating ailment their may arise repetition of tests or a patient gets over treated for a particular ailment. The cost of healthcare has increased due to chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes etc. The lifestyle people are living in this generation has led to the development of diseases that are expensive to treat or has led to there being over treatment in such for a cure of a particular ailment.
Based on this case the cost driver is to properly distribute the direct cost among the different divisions. Dr. Julian would like to control her departments costs by having them distributed fairly among the divisions without affecting the hospital’s reimbursement/revenue. Carroll University Hospital is currently using the standard costing unit, which is based on the cost of bed/day for inpatients. Currently the present cost accounting system that is being used at CUH takes the total direct cost of the departments, then allocates the indirect costs and distributes it among the departments evenly regardless of the actual resources being used in those departments, and without considering that there may be some patients in these divisions that may require more resources than others, this method does not seem to recognize the different activities,
Moreover, while planning and executing personnel budgeting, wages, bonuses, commissions and incentives apart from the employer-paid costs are deliberated by financial committee and managers to devise sound and comprehensive budgeting
Various users like the management, employees, shareholders, creditors, investors and customers use a strategic report internally and externally.
Transaction costs take place every time a service or product is transferred from one phase to another, where new capabilities are needed to produce those products or
Table of Contents Abstract: 3 Introduction: 3 Functions of an Accounting Information System: 4 Literature Review: 4 The Role of Financial Statement in Managerial Decision Making: 6 Accounting Information System related to Decision-making process: 7 Accounting Information on Decision-making Process: 7 Conclusion: 9 References: 10 Abstract: This paper discussed the extended normative model and supported through a longitudinal study. It is exploring the roles of Accounting Information Systems in an organization facing financial stages. Many teams suffer the various crises in different types.
Thus, customer warehouse system is known as a less expensive