scholarly journals Integrating Throuhput Accounting and Activity Based Costing in Industrial Companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa Fadhil Khalaf

Today, companies are seeking to achieve competitive positions in the business environment for earned customers satisfaction and increase their marketing share by providing distinct products at a lower cost and at the same time ensuring high quality. This study aims to clarify the contribution integrating between throughput accounting and activity based costing in reducing the production costs and achieving a competitive advantage in a state company for vegetable oils industry. The most significant findings show that by applying the throughput accounting integrated with activity based cost it is possible to reduce the life-cycle of products cost with more expansion. The fact that throughput accounting is a tool to manage costs in the short run, while activity based costing is a system of managing costs in the long run. Therefore integrating these two strategies ensures inclusiveness, as well as allows avoiding a waste of resources and removing the activity that does not add value to the product. This will result in reducing the production cost and achieving the competitive advantage. The paper also puts forward the importance of arranging training courses to keep up with the latest scientific development, including the role and importance of each of the strategies, their application mechanisms and benefits, advantages, and differences between them and the traditional system in allocated indirect costs.

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephany Ch. Pelleng ◽  
Herman Karamoy ◽  
Victorina Tirajoh

Nowadays, every company has to have a right and efficient way to know their own pricing process. The better the company count it, the better it would be to compete in the market because the right method or system will decrease the cost and increase the profit. Activity Based Costing System is a method of calculating the cost of goods manufactured based on activities in a company using more cost driver, so it can calculate more accurate. This method is expected to be applied to the PT. Sarimelati Kencana who still using the traditional system for calculating the cost of goods manufactured. This research has a purpose to know the cost of goods manufactured in the company using activity based costing system. There are qualitative and quantitative data on this project. Qualitative data for company profile and quantitative data for production costs. This is descriptive research and the result shows that the pricing process using ABC method give overcost condition for pizza hut personal and undercost condition for pizza hut regular and large.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. March

- This paper considers the relation between the exploration of new possibilities and the exploitation of old certainties in organizational learning. It examines some complications in allocating resources between the two, particularly those introduced by the distribution of costs and benefits across time and space, and the effects of ecological interaction. Two general situations involving the development and use of knowledge in organizations are modeled. The first is the case of mutual learning between members of an organization and an organizational code. The .second is the case of learning and competitive advantage in competition for primacy. The paper develops an argument that adaptive processes, by refining exploitation more rapidly than exploration, are likely to become effective in the short run but self-destructive in the long run. The possibility that certain common organizational practices ameliorate that tendency is assessed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 1545-1551
Author(s):  
Svetlana Trajković

The ability to manage knowledge becomes an increasingly important strategic activity in today's so-called. knowledge economy. To prioritize the preservation and improvement of intellectual capital, creating and disseminating knowledge within a modern organization, is becoming an increasingly decisive factor in achieving and maintaining its competitive advantage. The only viable advantage of a modern organization comes from what the company knows and how effectively is used what it knows and how quickly it acquires and uses new knowledge. There is a positive relationship between the intellectual capital and the performance of an organization. Intellectual capital is in correlation with the organization's future performance, and the growth rate of intellectual capital is in a positive relationship with the organization's performance, while the contribution of intellectual capital to improving the organization's performance varies, and is the result of strategic management of the organization itself. In this context, only the learning organization, which is constantly looking for new, innovated and / or enhanced knowledge in the field of activity, has the conditions, chances and opportunities to move forward in the real world. In the modern world, the world of a knowledge-based economy, a competitive advantage that is sustainable on the narrow paths, can only be achieved if the organization takes a lasting commitment to learn, invest in people and their intellectual potential, to support the need of people to continuously explore, learn and accept new, more complete and applicable knowledge. Regarding this, investing in the intellectual capital in the short term may be a significant cost to the organization, but in the long run, any investment in the development of intellectual capital - new knowledge - both scientific, general theoretical, and practically applicable will have a multiplier positive effect on the future business of the organization. The experience of organizations from the world of work has unambiguously confirmed this. Namely, companies that base their business on exactly human cognitive and scientific potentials have the advantage, that is, the world's leading companies are in terms of profit. First of all, these are companies in the field of low-tech technologies, and they are not quite necessary because they are notorious. But, from the experience of such organizations, they can and / or have to learn all the organizations they intend to succeed in a modern, very turbulent business environment. This is especially important for those organizations that intend to be leaders in an area or branch of business. Today, leadership is not realized solely on the basis of the number of pieces produced by a product or on the basis of the number of transactions with the environment, on the contrary, the leader is the organization of work that is imposed as an organization where the intellectual, and parallel with it, also the human capital prevails. Because, it is known, also in practice, that only when people feel in a certain organization friendly, only then do they give their maximum contribution. Only in conditions of complete freedom, some seemingly lucid ideas become "full of hits" in realizing and meeting the needs of the market and people who market it.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Nnanna P. Azu ◽  
Eche Abu-obe

The China-Nigeria trade volume has been increasing over the years with no signs of slowing down any time soon. This work examined the long-and-short run economic catalysts that stimulate this trade relation with focus on Nigeria’s economic factors as well as the Third Country’s Factors. Japan’s REER was adopted as a Third Country’s Factor and Johansen and Juselius cointegration technique was used to determine the result. The outcome revealed that GDP, trade openness and FDI inflow possess significant positive influence on China-Nigeria trade relations while bilateral exchange rate and Third Country’s Factor are negative determinants, suggesting that improvement in domestic prices and increased real exchange rates of Japan could undermine China-Nigeria bilateral trade, howbeit, in the long-run. So, both countries should gear towards improving domestic prices, efficiency and competitiveness relative to the Third Country’s Effect to curtail its excessive influence on bilateral trade and particularly, Nigeria should focus on redefining its business environment politically and otherwise to attract further FDI and ameliorate its trading sector.


1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Salassi

AbstractOrdinary least squares and seemingly unrelated regression procedures were used to analyze the impacts of changes in rice prices and production costs on U.S. rice planted acreage. National and regional response models were estimated over the 1970-92 period. Supply-inducing prices of rice were estimated as a function of effective rice support prices and seasonal average market prices. Expected production costs per acre were estimated using lagged actual total variable cash production expenses per acre adjusted by the previous 3-year average annual change in variable expenses. Estimated short-run price and production cost elasticities were found to be inelastic at the national level. However, the magnitude of the production cost elasticities were found to be greater than the price elasticities. Estimated long-run elasticities at the U.S. level were inelastic for changes in price but elastic for changes in production costs. Although acreage response varied across regions, similar relationships were found between price and production cost elasticities.


Author(s):  
И.Е. Мизиковский

Статья посвящена вопросам совершенствования распределения косвенных затрат на производство на себестоимость продукции (работ, услуг) промышленных предприятий, повышения точности показателей, инкорпорируемых в информационное пространство принятия управленческих решений. Разделение косвенных затрат на основные затраты (расходы на содержание и эксплуатацию оборудования) и накладные (административно-управленческие расходы), выбор соответствующих им драйверов, позволяют в значительной степени повысить точность калькуляционных результатов и эффективность экономических расчетов в целом. Целью исследования явилась разработка методики, позволяющей оптимизировать процесс калькулирования себестоимости продукции промышленного предприятия, обеспечить формирование результативной информационной базы выработки управленческих воздействий со стороны лиц, принимающих управленческие решения. Исследование проводилось с применением функционально-процессного и системного подходов к изучению традиционных бухгалтерских (управленческих) практик распределения косвенных затрат. Исследованы традиционный и предлагаемый способы распределения косвенных расходов, проведено сопоставление их результатов, сделаны выводы о перспективах внедрения элементов метода «Activity-based costing (ABC)» на исследуемых предприятиях. The article is devoted to the issues of improving the distribution of indirect production costs to the cost of production (labor, services) of industrial enterprises, improving the accuracy of indicators incorporated in the information space of management decision-making. The division of indirect costs into basic costs (maintenance and operation of equipment) and overhead costs (administrative and management costs), the choice of appropriate drivers, can significantly improve the accuracy of calculation results and the efficiency of economic calculations in general. The purpose of the study was to develop a methodology that allows optimizing the process of calculating the cost of production of an industrial enterprise, to ensure the formation of an effective information base for the development of management actions on the part of management decision makers. The study was carried out using functional-process and system approaches to the study of traditional accounting (management) practices for the distribution of indirect expenses. The traditional and proposed methods of distributing indirect costs are studied, their results are compared, and conclusions are drawn about the prospects for implementing elements of the «Activity-based costing (ABC)» method at the enterprises under study. Cost of production, industrial enterprises, calculation, activity-based costing, indirect costs, value stream, information base of management decision-making


2010 ◽  
pp. 287-326
Author(s):  
Richard B. McKenzie ◽  
Dwight R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Long Run ◽  

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-373
Author(s):  
Nikola Popovic ◽  
Marina Vasilic

This paper examines the possibility of application of the activity-based costing in a company engaged in drying fruit. Activity Based Costing (ABC) was developed due to the shortcomings of traditional cost accounting systems, which was shown to have serious limitations, on one hand, and due to the need for more accurate cost price, on the other. This is of great importance for business decision making, which requires quality data and information, because the intense technical and technological progress has significantly altered the environment companies operate in. Along with this fact, major changes in cost structure occurred, which reflected through the increase of the indirect cost portion, and decrease of direct labor and material costs. Traditional cost accounting methods allocate indirect production costs using keys which are no longer appropriate for the new circumstances, and therefore typically allocate unreasonably high amount of indirect costs to those products which are produced in larger series. ABC cost accounting system firstly allocates indirect costs to pre-defined activities, and afterwards carries them to cost and profit drivers. The application of ABC costing in Serbia is at the very beginning. Having in mind that the privatization and the restructuring phase in the economy is followed by the establishment of a new management with fresh ideas, this can be a good timing for companies to introduce modern approach and modern methods of cost accounting. ABC method is very convenient for application in service companies, food processing industry, confectionery companies, driers, sugar refineries, breweries, dairies, mills etc.


Author(s):  
Ali Mollahosseini ◽  
Mehdi Barkhordar

Due to rapid and unpredictable changes in the business environment, nowadays organizations have to be innovative to survive in the marketplace.  Many firms have applied knowledge management to reduce production costs, innovate new products, and attract customers and suppliers.  Hence, firm's management has to maintain competitive advantage by providing inputs through a dynamic supplier network. Supplier development programs help businesses to identify collaborative suppliers.  Therefore, Supplier Knowledge Management plays an important role for the firms to create switching costs and raise barriers to entry. In this paper, initially we define knowledge management, and supplier knowledge management, and then a conceptual framework is presented to enhance supplier performance.  We will demonstrate how companies can benefit by adopting supplier knowledge management.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor W. Andreassen ◽  
Rutger D. van Oest ◽  
Line Lervik-Olsen

Managers are faced with complex decisions when considering automating the front end of a service, where the firm interacts with its customers (e.g., check-in at airports). We develop an analytical model for the optimal decisions as to whether to automate the service and which price to charge. The model accounts for automation-induced customer inconvenience in the short run and differences in service quality and production costs in the long run. We show that it may be optimal not to automate, even if automated service reduces production costs for the firm and is ultimately desired by customers. In other situations, automated service is optimal, even though customer inconvenience may trigger financial losses in the short run. Automated service may also become optimal, as customers become more sensitive to service quality, but only if the quality of the automation technology is sufficiently high. We show that the firm should compensate customers for automation-induced inconvenience, but this price compensation can be reduced as customers become more comfortable with the service. Although automated service is cheaper to produce than labor-produced service, the firm should charge a price premium if the quality of the automated service is sufficiently superior.


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