This page provides a snapshot of all the articles pertaining to the understanding of the Income Statement And Balance Sheet Of The Financial Statements: BALANCE SHEET: Understand What Is A Balance Sheet In The Financial Statements(Part1) ASSETS SIDE Of A Balance Sheet: Know And Understand The Components In The Assets Side Of The Balance Sheet [...]
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Accounting is like a language where non financial managers need to know some of their jargon particularly on understanding of the fundamental accountings concepts. Furthermore, the need to understand the reasons for reading the financial statement, the characteristics and the limitations of such financial statements. Below are some of the relevant articles:- Accounting Concepts/Convention/Principles Commonly Used Accounting [...]
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Some salient points on the Production Budget For the production manager to know how much to produce during the budgeted period, obviously he/she needs to know the sales budgeted. Only then can he consider the production capacity and also to take account the planned closing stocks of finished goods. Once the volume of production is [...]
The Sales Budget is the first budget preped. It is derived from the sales forecast (estimate of sales revene for the budget period). Salient points about the Sales Budget: The formula is simple namely Sales Forecast=Quantities forecast X Selling prices It has a detailed breakdown by product,area,timing, volume and value. The detailed breakdown is to [...]
Budgets can be broadly classified into two categories: Capital Budgets Operating Budgets Capital Budget: is concerned with the provision of resources for the long-term running of a business for example, the Capital Expenditure Budget
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Some managers or readers who are assigned to build up an activity based costing system might be at a loss on how to even embark on this assignment. To do it, please look at the earlier articles on steps, conditions, factors,etc are provided. In this article, the overview approach is given to implement the activity [...]
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As managers, we always try to relate the overheads costs by APPORTIONING to the various cost centres. Remember that activity based costing is basically a ” one-step attribution system” as costs are NOT APPORTIONED between activities-the costs of each activity are RELATED DIRECTLY to products. Cost attribution is the process of relating cost to cost [...]
This article deals with some of the terms used in Activity-based costing. In an Activity-based costing system(ABC), the term allocation base is replaced by the term activity measure, and the term cost driver is also used. The two types of activity measures are : Transaction driver – a simple count of the number of times [...]
Earlier, we have describe the shortcomings of traditional costing systems but do you know that activity based costing like all other systems too has it limitations or constraints. As managers, we need to at least understand some of the following limitations of ABC:- Requires management to estimate costs of activity pools and to identify and [...]
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From part 1 and 2, we have understood some of the basic principles of activity based costing and the shortcomings of the activity based system. Here, in this article, we look at some of the basic steps/procedurs to implement this activity-based costing:- Before the implementation of ABC system, the following factors need to be considered: [...]
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