Question 5, Warm-Up 1-5 Premier Baking Ltd has recently appointed a new CEO to run its bakery business, which supplies to supermarkets and restaurants. The new CEO has instituted a new compensation policy and dropped the earlier incentive scheme, which was based on overall production achieved within the targeted time limits and quality standards. The quality control manager has now reported that there is a significant How could Premier Bakery counter these agency costs?

Question 5, Warm-Up 1-5 Premier Baking Ltd has recently appointed a new CEO to run its bakery business, which supplies to supermarkets and restaurants. The new CEO has instituted a new compensation policy and dropped the earlier incentive scheme, which was based on overall production achieved within the targeted time limits and quality standards. The quality control manager has now reported that there is a significant How could Premier Bakery counter these agency costs?

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Question A25 A manufacturing business uses a full costing system for budgeting, control and costing purposes. Over recent years there has been some significant changes within the business, which include: • The introduction of several new products which are made in different batch sizes • The new products are distinct and are made using a variety of different processes requiring different types of input • The manufacturing process has become increasingly automated • Direct labour has seen significant cuts and is now a small proportion of the overall production costs The business wishes to continue with a full costing approach but is concerned its traditional absorption costing system is not providing the level of detail required. What would be the most suitable costing system for the business to consider? A Marginal costing B Relevant costing C Lifecycle costing D Activity based costing
QUESTION 2 A. In Akhwan Company, operations director Mr Tamad recently realized there had been an increase in products failing during the final quality checks. These checks were carried out in the QC (quality control) laboratory, which tested finished goods products before being released for sale. The product failure rate had risen from 1% to 4% in two years' time which meant an increase of hundreds of items of output a month which were not sold to Akhwan's customers. The failed products had no value to the company once they had failed QC as the rework costs were not economic. Because the increase was gradual, it took a while for Mr Tamad to realize that the failure rate had risen. A thorough review of the main production operation revealed nothing that might explain the increased failure and so attention was focused on the QC laboratory. For some years, the QC laboratory at Ikhwan, managed by Ramly, had been marginalized in the company, with its two staff working in a remote…
Refer to Exercise 8.29. Suppose Gene determines that next years Sales Division activities include the following: Researchresearching current and future conditions in the industry Shippingarranging for shipping of mattresses and handling calls from purchasing agents at retail stores to trace shipments and correct errors Jobberscoordinating the efforts of the independent jobbers who sell the mattresses Basic adsplacing print and television ads for the Sleepeze and Plushette lines Ultima adschoosing and working with the advertising agency on the Ultima account Office managementoperating the Sales Division office The percentage of time spent by each employee of the Sales Division on each of the above activities is given in the following table: Additional information is as follows: a. Depreciation on the office equipment belongs to the office management activity. b. Of the 21,000 for office supplies and other expenses, 5,000 can be assigned to telephone costs which can be split evenly between the shipping and jobbers activities. An additional 2,400 per year is attributable to Internet connections and fees, and the bulk of these costs (80 percent) are assignable to research. The remainder is a cost of office management. All other office supplies and costs are assigned to the office management activity. Required: 1. Prepare an activity-based budget for next year by activity. Use the expected level of sales activity. 2. On the basis of the budget prepared in Requirement 1, advise Gene regarding actions that might be taken to reduce expenses. Olympus, Inc., manufactures three models of mattresses: the Sleepeze, the Plushette, and the Ultima. Forecast sales for next year are 15,000 for the Sleepeze, 12,000 for the Plushette, and 5,000 for the Ultima. Gene Dixon, vice president of sales, has provided the following information: a. Salaries for his office (including himself at 65,000, a marketing research assistant at 40,000, and an administrative assistant at 25,000) are budgeted for 130,000 next year. b. Depreciation on the offices and equipment is 20,000 per year. c. Office supplies and other expenses total 21,000 per year. d. Advertising has been steady at 20,000 per year. However, the Ultima is a new product and will require extensive advertising to educate consumers on the unique features of this high-end mattress. Gene believes the company should spend 15 percent of first-year Ultima sales for a print and television campaign. e. Commissions on the Sleepeze and Plushette lines are 5 percent of sales. These commissions are paid to independent jobbers who sell the mattresses to retail stores. f. Last year, shipping for the Sleepeze and Plushette lines averaged 50 per unit sold. Gene expects the Ultima line to ship for 75 per unit sold since this model features a larger mattress. Required: 1. Suppose that Gene is considering three sales scenarios as follows: Prepare a revenue budget for the Sales Division for the coming year for each scenario. 2. Prepare a flexible expense budget for the Sales Division for the three scenarios above.
Question 3 The Buffalo Machine Sdn. Bhd. was evaluating its cost structure relating to quality costs. Below items are the cost of quality in the year 2020. With this allocation of quality costs, the company lost 20% of sales due to poor performance. To improve the situation, the company would like to perform the cost of quality analysis. Items Product Reliability Test Process Quality Assurance Audit Rework Cost Production Inspection Supplier Quality System Audit Defect Repair Cost Market Defect Cost Sampling Inspection Quality Assurance Training Product Warranty Cost Cost/RM 10000 8500 12000 12000 5500 18000 80000 8000 16000 40000 a) Identify the items for prevention, appraisal, and failure costs. b) Compute the ratio of prevention, appraisal, and failure costs to total quality costs. c) Based on the analysis of the cost of quality, recommend the company's actions to improve the product quality.
Break-Even Analysis for Individual Products in a Multiproduct Company Cheryl Montoya picked up the phone and called her boss, Wes Chan, the vice president of marketing at Piedmont Fasteners Corporation: “Wes, I’m not sure how to go about answering the questions that came up at the meeting with the president yesterday.” “What’s the problem?” “The president wanted to know the break-even point for each of the company’s products, but I am having trouble figuring them out.” “I’m sure you can handle it, Cheryl. And, by the way, I need your analysis on my desk tomorrow morning at 8:00 sharp in time for the follow-up meeting at 9:00.” Piedmont Fasteners Corporation makes three different clothing fasteners in its manufacturing facility in North Carolina. Data concerning these products appear below: Total fixed expenses are $400,000 per year. All three products are sold in highly competitive markets, so the company is unable to raise prices without losing an unacceptable numbers of customers.…
(Appendix 11A) Balanced Scorecard The following list gives a number of measures associated with the Balanced Scorecard: a. Number of new customers b. Percentage of customer complaints resolved with one contact c. Unit product cost d. Cost per distribution channel e. Suggestions per employee f. Warranty repair costs g. Consumer satisfaction (from surveys) h. Cycle time for solving a customer problem i. Strategic job coverage ratio j. On-time delivery percentage k. Percentage of revenues from new products Required: 1. Classify each performance measure as belonging to one of the following perspectives: financial, customer, internal business process, or learning and growth. 2. Suggest an additional measure for each of the four perspectives.
Pizza Capers: Business Improvement The Situation:Pizza Capers Burpengary is a not-for-profit pizza shop that operates in a highly competitive environment, trying to attract customers by providing high quality pizzas and great customer service.Escalating cost pressures, demanding customers and issues with staff enthusiasm created an environment that required deep understanding, superior planning and faultless execution of business processes.Leonardo was engaged to reduce escalating costs, improve profitability and create transparency over the organisation's business processes by designing and implementing business process changes.Work Performed:Created a graphical business model and process flow to 'see' the flow of work.Created the business process architecture and implemented practical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).Applied Rapid ideation techniques through team and one-on-one workshops/interviews.Analysed key process issues (increasing costs, insufficient revenue, [and] compliance…
Quality Cost Report, Taguchi Loss Function Kathy Shorts, president of Oliver Company, was concerned with the trend in sales and profitability. The company had been losing customers at an alarming rate. Furthermore, the company was barely breaking even. Investigation revealed that poor quality was at the root of the problem. At the end of 20x5, Kathy decided to begin a quality improvement program. As a first step, she identified the following costs in the accounting records as quality related: 20x5 Sales (644,000 units @ $100) $64,400,000 Retesting 2,125,200 Rework 2,382,800 Vendor certification 901,600 Consumer complaints 1,545,600 Warranty 2,382,800 Test labor 1,932,000 Inspection labor 1,416,800 Design reviews 257,600 Required: 1. Prepare a quality cost report by quality cost category. Round percentages to one decimal place if rounding is required. For example, 5.78% would be entered as "5.8". Oliver Company Quality Cost Report For the Year…
2 Management of Mittel Company would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported: Inspection time. Wait time (from order to start of production) Process time Move time Queue time Required: 1. Compute the throughput time. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.) 2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. (Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non-value-added activities? (Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 4. Compute the delivery cycle time. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place.) 5. If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place.) 1.…
Problems 5.1-5.3 relate to Goods and Services Selection the life cycle, identify a reasonable operations strategy for each: ... 5.1 ing products, and given the position in its life cycle, identify the issues likely to confront the operations manager and his or her possible actions. Product Alpha has annual sales of 1,000 units and a contribution of $2,500; it is in the introductory stage. Prepare a product-by-value analysis for the follow- COMPANY CONTRIBUTION (%: TOTAL ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION PRODUCT CONTRIBUTION (% OF SELLING PRICE) DIVIDED BY TOTAL ANNUAL SALES) POSITION IN LIFE CYCLE Product Bravo has annual sales of 1,500 units and a contribu- PRODUCT tion of $3,0003; it is in the growth stage. Product Charlie has annual sales of 3,500 units and a contribution of $1,750; it is in the decline stage. Smart watch 30 40 Introduction Tablet 30 50 Growth Hand calculator • 5.2 Given the contribution made on each of the 50 10 Decline three products in the following table and their position in
Question 1: Service Costing & ABC Part AAfrican Adventure Ltd offers a series of holiday packages aimed at families, seniors, and corporate groups. The financial controller is preparing for the annual board meeting and is concerned about the loss the business sustained in the past year. He has examined the profits for each of the three departments of the business and it seems that the corporate department is the source of the problem.The financial controller looked at the three packages offered by the corporate department to establish which are profitable or not profitable. The sales and direct cost of each package for the last year are as follows:South Africa Egypt NamibiaNumber of packages sold 10 20 10Number of people per package 5 6 8Revenue per person $18,000 $12,000 $14,000Direct cost per package: Tour leader $5,000 $12,000 $9,000 Tour assistant $2,000 $3,000 $6,000 Air travel $28,000 $30,000 $32,00 Accommodation $15,000 $26,000 $24,000 Equipment hires $4,000 0 $9,000 Meals…