If Account Based Costing (ABC) is so great, why do such a small percentage of companies use it? Why do many companies give up after implementing it and what has to happen in order for companies to be successful using ABC? What type of buy in do we have to see? Who is a great candidate? Also, what are ABC's limitations?
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If Account Based Costing (ABC) is so great, why do such a small percentage of companies use it? Why do many companies give up after implementing it and what has to happen in order for companies to be successful using ABC? What type of buy in do we have to see? Who is a great candidate? Also, what are ABC's limitations?
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- 1) Which of the following statements describes the force that drives the distribution of resources (goods and services, labor, and money) in a free-enterprise economy? A) Businesses are willing to supply more of a good or service at higher prices because the potential for profits is higher. B) Supply and demand curves intersect at the point where supply and demand are not equal. C) Changing the price of a product does not alter the supply curve. D) The price at which the number of products that businesses are willing to supply is inversely proportional to the amount of products that consumers are willing to buy at a specific point in time. E) Prices for goods and services vary according to the changes in supply and demand. 1)The difference between the average customer’s willingness to pay and the total costs of a product is known as ______. When a company makes a profit, the difference between the price of the product and the cost of production is known as what? Value creation and value capture are key concepts for which parts of business? If a company innovates in a way that reduces its production costs without affecting any features of the product, would that create value? Suppose a price war was to erupt in the airline market, which causes prices for flights to decline, but affected nothing else about the industry. Would this change the value created by airlines? Suppose a price war was to erupt in the airline market, which causes prices for flights to decline, but affected nothing else about the industry. Would this change the value captured by airlines? Please solve all part and do not give solution in image format thankuWhy do most small businesses operate with less leverage than Miller and Modigliani’s model would consider to be optimal? Explain.
- Why do companies allocate costs? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages to doing so?Which one of the following statement is not correct? Group of answer choices -Opportunity costs are only considered when resources are limited. -Break-even analysis is used to determine how many units of a product or a service a business has to sell to cover all its costs. -Both fixed and variable costs influence short-term decision-making. -Short-term decision-making is all about analysing those costs that will change as a result of taking a particular action.Which of the followings is NOT an advantage of financial institutions in consumption smoothing? A. They help to solve moral hazard and adverse selection issues. B. They help to share risks. C. They help to reduce transaction costs. D. They help to create more jobs.
- Question 2 A seminar was recently attended by the Managing Director of XYZ Manufacturing Company Limited located at Sheffield. The focus of the seminar was "optimising scarce resources utility in a manufacturing setting with particular reference to linear programming". On his return to his base, he called for a meeting with the Management to share his experience from the seminar and the impact this will have on the decision by the Board to produce two major products in the years ahead. A group of external research experts had previously been commissioned and the following represents information from the research carried out by them The expected products are "Best" and "Smart" with expected costs statistics as follows: Best £ £ Smart (3kg@£50/kg) Material costs (5kg@£50/kg) 250 150 Labour costs Machinery time 30 (4 hours @£15/Hr) 60 (4 hours @£10/hr) 40 (2hours @£15/Hr) (5hours@£10/Hr) Other Processing Time 50 The applicable pricing policy is based on total cost of production plus 20%…Which one of the following statement is not correct? O Both fixed and variable costs influence short-term decision-making. O Short-term decision-making is all about analysing those costs that will change as a result of taking a particular action. O Opportunity costs are only considered when resources are limited. O Break-even analysis is used to determine how many units of a product or a service a business has to sell to cover all its costs.Lowering price does not always increase revenue with increased demand. Besides reducing price, what else can a firm do to stimulate demand for its product?
- Which of the following items will not cause the company's ROA to increase? Multiple Choice O O Reducing costs. Reducing company assets without impacting sales. Increasing company assets. Increasing the selling price per unit. $What is the major benefit of Breakeven Analysis? A. AB B. CD C. D. It allows you to know how much you have to sell to breakeven. It allows you to see the effect different methods of changing costs and prices of your products will have on profitability. It allows you to see what will happen if you lower fixed cost. It allows you to see what will happen if you increase variable cost.Which of the following costs are always incremental and relevant in decision analysis? a) Opportunity costs and sunk costs b) Avoidable costs and opportunity costs c) Only avoidable costs d) Avoidable costs and sunk costs Which of the following will increase a company's breakeven point? a) reducing its total fixed costs b) increasing the selling price per unit c) increasing variable cost per unit d) increasing contribution margin per unit