Global Electronics, Inc.: ABC implementation and the change management process
Brewer, Peter CView Profile; Juras, Paul EView Profile; Brownlee, E Richard, IIView Profile. Issues in Accounting Education18.1 (Feb 2003): 49-69.
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Descriptions of activity-based costing systems have become a standard part of managerial accounting texts. While ABC implementation issues are the focus of a number of articles, these issues are often not addressed in a typical textbook. A case is designed to familiarize one with the behavioral and technical variables that can aid or impede successful ABC implementation. Anderson's (1995) factor-stage model provides a template to
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There was a feeling that the standard cost system could not truly identify which of the company's products were profitable and which were not. The lack of an understanding of product profitability, a flawed product mix, and poor marketing and pricing decisions could have contributed to GEI's financial problems. A combination of internal problems and external threats in an industry characterized by increasing global competition, decreasing product life cycles, product proliferation, and exploding technological capability led to a shake-up of the company's top management in February 2000. As part of the shake-up, GEI installed a new president, Mike Alberts, and a new controller, Steve Shannon, for the express purpose of strengthening the company's position in the market and improving its financial performance.
THE STANDARD COST SYSTEM
GEI's standard cost system assigned manufacturing overhead costs to products based on direct labor dollars. From 1994-1999, the predetermined manufacturing overhead rate had spiraled upward from 300 percent to more than 600 percent of direct labor. As the manufacturing process became more technologydriven, management worried that high-volume products and/or less complex products were being overcosted and that low-volume products and/or more complex products were being undercosted. Indeed, GEI seemed unable to compete with the low prices offered by its competitors on high-volume, commodity business. The
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Kimmel, P. D., Weygandt, J. J., & Kieso, D. E. (2009). Accounting: Tools for business decision
The week four individual paper addresses the implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC) by Super Bakery, Inc., a virtual corporation founded by Franco Harris. Specifically, management strategies, the reasoning behind an ABC system, and the alternatives of a job order cost system or a process order cost system are assessed for this enterprise.
Activity-based costing can be defined as the managers allocate costs depending on the quantity of resources a product or service consumed in the manufacture of goods and services. The activity based
The week four individual paper addresses the implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC) by Super Bakery, Inc., a virtual corporation founded by Franco Harris. Specifically, management strategies, the reasoning behind an ABC system, and the alternatives of a job order cost system or a process order cost system are assessed for this enterprise.
Folk, M., J., Garrsion, H., R., & Noreen, W., E., (2002). Introduction to Managerial Accounting. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
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Activity-based costing (ABC) methodology is an instrument designed to provide accountants and managers with valuable costing information that will allow them to make sound strategic decisions. It is used as a secondary methodology rather than a replacement for the company’s primarily costing system. The ABC methodology identifies activities in an organization and for each activity it assigns a cost. The cost reflects the actual resource consumption by each activity that has been identified.
An organization costing system is a system that helps the management with the strategy planning while the system plays an important role in providing accurate cost information about the products and customers (Curtin, 2006). UPS utilizes the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) system. ABC assumes that activities cause costs and that cost objects create the demand for activities (Marx,
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Nowadays, we know that activity based costing system assigns overhead costs to products or services products that using a two-stage process, which focuses on activities. ABC is a relatively new and very important topic in managerial accounting. ABC allows us to find a way that we could determine the profitability of every product, profitability of every customer we serve, and the profitability of our process. Contents in brief, first that comparing potential advantages of ABC versus traditional costing methods. The
The first cost system of this part of this essay is activity-based costing (ABC). Cooper and Kaplan (1988) implemented ABC for taking care of issues of Traditional costing frameworks.
C. T. Horngren, A. Bhimani, S. M. Datar, G. Foster (2005), 'Activity-Based Costing', Management and Cost Accounting (Prentice Hall Europe), 345-363
Furthermore, traditional costing does not classify the specific overhead charges or resource used to fabricate a specific product and distributes costs by assigning average overhead rates. However, ABC categorizes specific activities employed for producing each individual product and allocates them based on their consumption of resources. Drilling Innovations used traditional costing, which in turn, caused them to assign overhead based on machine hours and ignore other overhead activities used to produce each product. However, by using ABC, the costs were allocated based on the activities used to produce each individual drilling head. Therefore, the cost was more accurately spread based on the overhead consumption of each product individually. Costs that were incurred to produce OS-367 were being allocated to GS-157 and HS-241 with the traditional costing method. Once