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Generating Variance Analysis Models Based On Responsibility Centers, Craig M. Sorochuk Aug 2023

Generating Variance Analysis Models Based On Responsibility Centers, Craig M. Sorochuk

Department of Computing and Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Changing And/Or Funding Opeb Promises: A Typology Of Local Government Responses To Gasb 45 And The Realization Of Opeb Liabilities, Juita-Elena Yusuf, Thomas Musumeci Oct 2012

Changing And/Or Funding Opeb Promises: A Typology Of Local Government Responses To Gasb 45 And The Realization Of Opeb Liabilities, Juita-Elena Yusuf, Thomas Musumeci

School of Public Service Faculty Publications

GASB Statement No. 45 addresses how governmental units account for employees' other post-employment benefits (OPEB), requiring government employers to replace OPEB reporting on a pay-as-you-go basis with an accounting of the cost of current and future benefits. This requirement and the resulting OPEB liability may prompt government employers to reconsider key questions regarding their OPEB provision. The size of the OPEB liability depends on both the benefit promises made to employees and the assets to fund these promises. We propose a typology that defines four approaches for governments to respond to GASB 45 and their OPEB liabilities. These approaches represent …


A Study Of Financial Analysis Expectations And Practices In The Engineering Management Workplace, Paul Kauffmann, Resit Unal, Andres Sousa-Poza, William Peterson Jan 2001

A Study Of Financial Analysis Expectations And Practices In The Engineering Management Workplace, Paul Kauffmann, Resit Unal, Andres Sousa-Poza, William Peterson

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper describes an on-going study of Master of Engineering Management (MEM) students and the financial analysis related job expectations and environment they face. The objective of this effort is to provide enhanced understanding of these requirements so that instructional content in the related courses can be focused to meet these needs. To achieve this goal, the study segments findings based on a range of organizational and job level characteristics to identify critical differences in the financial work environment and the financial tools that are employed. Preliminary findings are discussed in this paper and contrasts between public and private sector …


Implementing Activity-Based Costing And Its Implications For A Service Firm In The Tme Share Exchange Industry, Sakthi Mahenthiran, Bruce D. Marshall Jan 1998

Implementing Activity-Based Costing And Its Implications For A Service Firm In The Tme Share Exchange Industry, Sakthi Mahenthiran, Bruce D. Marshall

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

This study reports on how an activity-based cost accounting (ABC) system was implemented in a service firm in the timeshare exchange industry. In addition, the study highlights the similarities of implementing ABC in a service firm and a manufacturing firm. An important contribution of this field study is to illustrate the separation of labor activities into those that are productive versus those that are not. Further, the study shows the importance of separately allocating the non-productive activities, which are traceable to the primary service lines from those that are not traceable to them. This is analogous to separating the product …


Accountants As Change Agents, Michael D. Akers, Frank A. Wiebe Oct 1991

Accountants As Change Agents, Michael D. Akers, Frank A. Wiebe

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

The results of a field study of 48 manufacturing firms illustrates the change issues that accountants should consider when implementing changes within an organization. The primary purposes of the field study were to determine: 1. the product costing method being used for external reporting purposes, 2. the product costing method being used for internal financial reporting and budgeting, and 3. reasons for the methods used internally. The results indicate that most of the chief financial officers and controllers of the participating firms have not implemented the prescription that organizations should use variable costing for internal purposes. The accountants of those …


Statement Of The American Institute Of Cpas On Uniform Cost Accounting Standards, Before The Senate Banking And Currency Committee Subcommittee On Production And Stabilization, April 1, 1970, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Apr 1970

Statement Of The American Institute Of Cpas On Uniform Cost Accounting Standards, Before The Senate Banking And Currency Committee Subcommittee On Production And Stabilization, April 1, 1970, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

American Institute of Accountants

No abstract provided.


Distribution Cost Analysis, United States. Bureau Of Foreign And Domestic Commerce Jan 1946

Distribution Cost Analysis, United States. Bureau Of Foreign And Domestic Commerce

Federal Publications

This study is a reappraisal of the techniques of cost analysis that have been developed by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce over the past 20 years. Separate sections are devoted to the technique of distribution cost analysis at the retailing, wholesaling, and manufacturing levels. There are included a discussion of the purposes of cost analysis and examples of results that have been achieved by companies that have made and applied such studies. It is hoped that this present study is but the first step in a program under which the Bureau will undertake further field work to simplify …


Standard Costs, Rollin Adams Dalrymple Jan 1929

Standard Costs, Rollin Adams Dalrymple

Haskins and Sells Publications

No abstract provided.


Cost Of Handling Small Orders And Accounts, Howard C. Greer, Institute Of American Meat Packers Jan 1928

Cost Of Handling Small Orders And Accounts, Howard C. Greer, Institute Of American Meat Packers

Individual and Corporate Publications

No abstract provided.


Cost Accounting And Foremen's Departmental Activities, T. M. Mcniece Jul 1925

Cost Accounting And Foremen's Departmental Activities, T. M. Mcniece

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


How Can Cost Work Be Simplified Without Impairing Accuracy, F. H. Corregan Jun 1925

How Can Cost Work Be Simplified Without Impairing Accuracy, F. H. Corregan

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Standard Costs -- Their Development And Use, F. Brugger Mar 1925

Standard Costs -- Their Development And Use, F. Brugger

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Methods Of Supplying Cost Information To Foremen, Hugo Diemer Jun 1924

Methods Of Supplying Cost Information To Foremen, Hugo Diemer

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Papers: Fourth New England Regional Cost Conference, National Association Of Cost Accountants Mar 1924

Papers: Fourth New England Regional Cost Conference, National Association Of Cost Accountants

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Expense Of Power And Building Service, James P. Kendall Feb 1924

Expense Of Power And Building Service, James P. Kendall

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Predetermined Costs, George Rea Dec 1923

Introduction To Predetermined Costs, George Rea

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Choosing A Basic Cost Plan, Eric A. Camman Nov 1923

Choosing A Basic Cost Plan, Eric A. Camman

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Method Of Costing Partially Completed Orders, C. B. Williams Oct 1923

Method Of Costing Partially Completed Orders, C. B. Williams

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Problem Of Joint Costs, William Morse Cole Oct 1923

Problem Of Joint Costs, William Morse Cole

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Some Economic Fallacies Common Among Cost Accountants, R. B. Cowin Sep 1923

Some Economic Fallacies Common Among Cost Accountants, R. B. Cowin

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Papers And Discussions— Third New England Regional Cost Conference, National Association Of Cost Accountants Jun 1923

Papers And Discussions— Third New England Regional Cost Conference, National Association Of Cost Accountants

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Standard Costs - How To Establish And Apply Them, William F. Worrall May 1923

Standard Costs - How To Establish And Apply Them, William F. Worrall

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Papers And Discussion— Second New England Regional Cost Conference, National Association Of Cost Accountants Apr 1923

Papers And Discussion— Second New England Regional Cost Conference, National Association Of Cost Accountants

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Price, Profits And Production, A. F. Stock, M. B. Gordon Jan 1923

Price, Profits And Production, A. F. Stock, M. B. Gordon

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

No abstract provided.


Analyzing Cost Of Manufacture And Cost Of Goods Sold, Anonymous Jan 1921

Analyzing Cost Of Manufacture And Cost Of Goods Sold, Anonymous

Haskins and Sells Publications

No abstract provided.


Supplementing The Work Of Cost System Installation, Robert Atkins Jan 1921

Supplementing The Work Of Cost System Installation, Robert Atkins

Individual and Corporate Publications

WITH increased knowledge on the subject of cost finding, there can be no doubt that the work of devising and installing cost systems will measure up to higher standards. This condition will tend towards the more profitable and efficient conduct of business, and the more rapidly this knowledge is disseminated throughout the business world, the earlier its benefits will be obtained. Nowadays, converts to scientific methods of cost finding are not infrequently made of entire branches of industry and the advantages of a uniform cost system to all the manufacturers in a certain line of industry are at once apparent. …


Uniform Cost Methods: An Address Before The Package Club, April 12, 1915, Charles Neville Jan 1915

Uniform Cost Methods: An Address Before The Package Club, April 12, 1915, Charles Neville

Individual and Corporate Publications

Your committee was kind enough to ask me to tell you something about our experience with Costs. To meet this kind invitation, I will endeavor to bring out some interesting points of our work, and discuss the necessity of knowing COSTS. It is only within the past few years that Cost finding has made rapid strides, and it is admitted that the greatest benefit in various lines of business has come from association of people in the same trade. If you have anything good in your business, give it to your competitor and he in turn will impart to you …


Cost Accounting, John Raymond Wildman Jan 1913

Cost Accounting, John Raymond Wildman

Haskins and Sells Publications

No abstract provided.


General Expense And Cost Summaries: Instruction Paper, Charles E. Hathaway, National Association Of Merchant Tailors Of America. Business Efficiency Committee Jan 1909

General Expense And Cost Summaries: Instruction Paper, Charles E. Hathaway, National Association Of Merchant Tailors Of America. Business Efficiency Committee

Individual and Corporate Publications

While it is realized that there are differences of opinion among accountants on some of the questions considered in the presentation of this subject, it is the intent of this article to present what is generally conceded by our leading accounting authorities as the best practice in a well-organized, up-to-date, industrial plant, and to so present the subject to the prospective student that he may fully understand and master the "why" and the "how" of this important question in factory accounting.That the subject may be carefully considered in all its various phases, it will for convenience be developed under the …