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Cost Accounting
Balanced Scorecard, Activity Based Management V. Financial Based Management
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Accounting
Undergraduate 3
12/12/2010

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Term
Structural Activities
Definition

Building plants

Management Structuring

Grouping employees

Complexity

Vertically Integrating

Selecting and using process technologies

Term
Structural Cost Drivers
Definition

Number of plants, scale, degree of centralization

Management style and philosophy

Number & type of work units

Number of product lines, number of unique processes

Number of unique parts, degree of complexity

Scope, buying power, selling power,

types of pocess technologies, experience

Term
Executional Activities
Definition

Using employees

Providing quality

Providing plant layout

Designing and producing products

Providing capacity

Term

Executional Cost Drivers

 

Definition

Degree of Invovlement

Quality Management approach

Plant layout efficiency

Product configuration

Capacity utilization

Term
Operational Activities
Definition

Unit-Level Activities

Batch-Level Activities

Product-Level Activities

Term
Unit Level Activities
Definition

Grinding parts

Assembling parts

Drilling Holes

Using materials

Using power

Term
Batch Level Activities
Definition

Setting up equipment

Moving batches

Inspecting batches

Reworking products

Term
Product Level Activities
Definition

Redesigning products

Expediting

Scheduling

Testing products

Term
Unit Level Drivers
Definition

Grinding machine hours

Assembly labor hours

Drilling machine hours

Pounds of material

Number of killowatt-hours

Term
Batch Level Drivers
Definition

Number of setups

Number of moves

Inspection hours

Number of defective units

Term
Product Level Drivers
Definition

Number of change orders

Number of late orders

Number of different products

Number of procedures

Term
Backflush Costing
Definition

Uses trigger points to deterine when manufacturing costs are assigned to key inventory and temporary accounts.

 

Four variations:

1. purchase of raw materials (trigger point 1) and completion of goods (trigger point 2).

2. purchase of raw materials (trigger point 1) and the sale of goods (trigger point 2).

3. The completion of goods (only trigger point).

4. The sale of goods (only trigger point).

Term
Direct Labor
Definition

Before JIT: Direct

After JIT: Direct

Term
Direct Materials
Definition

Before JIT: Direct

After JIT: Direct

Term
Materials Handling
Definition

Before JIT: Driver

After JIT: Direct

Term
Repairs & maintenance
Definition

Before JIT: Driver

After JIT: Direct

Term
Energy
Definition

Before JIT: Driver

After JIT: Direct

Term
Operating Supplies
Definition

Before JIT: Driver

After JIT: Direct

 

Term
Supervisional (department)
Definition

Before JIT: Allocation

After JIT: Direct

Term
Insurance & Taxes
Definition

Before:Allocation

After: Allocation

 

Term
Plant Depreciation
Definition

Before JIT: Allocation

After JIT: Allocation

Term
Equipment Depreciation
Definition

Before JIT: Driver

After JIT: Direct

Term
Custodial Services
Definition

Before JIT: Allocation

After JIT: Direct

 

Term
Cafeteria services
Definition

Before JIT: Driver

After JIT: Driver

Term
Activity-Based Management
Definition
Systemwide, integrated approach that focuses mangement's attention on activities with the objectives of improving cusotmer value and the profit achieved by providing the value.
Term
Value Added Activities
Definition
activities necessary to remain in business.  They contribute to customer value and/or help meet an organization's needs.
Term
Non-Value Added Activities
Definition
Unnecessary and not valued by internal or external customers.  They often are those that fail to produce a hange in state or those that replicate work because it wasn't done correctly the first time.
Term
Examples of Non-Value Added activities
Definition

1. Scheduling

2. Moving

3.Waiting

4. Inspecting

5. Storing

Term
Responsibility Accounting
Definition

1. Assigning Responsibility

2. Establishing performance

3. Evaluating Performance

4. Assigning Rewards

Term
Activity-Basd Responsibiity Accounting
Definition
assings respnsibility to processes and uses both financial and non-financial measures of performance, thus emphasizing both financial and process perspectives.
Term
Activity- Based Responsibility Assignment
Definition

1. No tie to strategy

2. Systemwide efficiency

3. Team accountability

4. Financial perspective

5. Process Perspective

Term
Strategic Based Responsibility Assignments
Definition

1. Linked to Strategy

2. Systemwide efficiency

3. team accountability

4. financial perspective

5. process perspective

6. customer perspective

7. learning and growth perspective

Term
Activity-Based Performance Measures
Definition

1. Process oriented and financial standards

2. Value-added standards

3. Dynamic Standards

4. Optimal Standards

Term
Strategic-Based Performance Measures
Definition

1. Standards for all four perspectives

2. Used to communicate strategies

3. Used to help align objectives

4. Linked to strategy and objectives

5. Balanced measures

Term
Strategic Based Performance Evaluation
Definition

1. Time reduction

2. Quality Imrpovements

3. Cost reductions

4. Trend Measurements

5. Expended set of metrics

6. Stretch targets for all four perspectives

Term
Activity Based Performance Evaluation
Definition

1. Time reductions

2. Quality Improvements

3. Cost reductions

4. Trend measurements

Term
Activity Based Rewards
Definition

1. Performance evaluated on two or more dimensions

2. Group rewards

3. Salary increases

4. Promotions

5. Bonuses, profit sharing, and gainsharing

 

Term
Strategic Based Awards
Definition

1. Performance evaluated on four or more dimensions

2. Group rewards

3. Salary increases

4. Promotions

5. Bonuses, profit sharing, and gainsharing

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