Ben and Sons Co Ltd, a machine intensive manufacturing company situated in the Northen province of Zambia intends to introduce a high technology product in response to the market dynamics. Major proportion of the product’s cost will depend on the decisions made early in its lifecycle. The product will face competition from four major brands already on the market. The Managing Director, Mr William Mwape, has just attended a seminar organized by CA Zambia which covered modern management accounting techniques such as lifecycle costing, JIT system, backflush and throughput accounting etc. He now wishes to implement the knowledge acquired in order to maximize return over the product’s lifecycle. Required: (c) State possible ways of improving throughput accounting ratio of a product.
Ben and Sons Co Ltd, a machine intensive manufacturing company situated in the Northen province of Zambia intends to introduce a high technology product in response to the market dynamics. Major proportion of the product’s cost will depend on the decisions made early in its lifecycle. The product will face competition from four major brands already on the market. The Managing Director, Mr William Mwape, has just attended a seminar organized by CA Zambia which covered modern
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(c) State possible ways of improving throughput accounting ratio of a product.
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