Study on Cost Accounting of Special Steel Enterprises Based on Multi-Factor Resource Allocation Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 437 ◽  
pp. 932-935
Author(s):  
Ya Jun Wang ◽  
De Quan Wang ◽  
Jia Liang Li

To deal with the problems of data inaccuracy and incorrect fee allocation, an activity based costing model for the special steel enterprises based upon multi-factor resource model was proposed. The model was built to combine the cost factors of consumption, operation, and cost drivers with resource, process and machining parameters and to realize the information integration of finance, production and inventory, which improve the accuracy, consistency and integrality of the product effective cost. Finally, the cost management system framework based on the model was realized and the application is illustrated by an example.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mourougavelou Vaithianathan

The cost management system is a powerful tool for managers to understand manufacturing plant performance. It is essential for any organization to develop a cost management system to estimate the product cost and to account actual cost spent for the product manufacturing. The Activity Based Costing (ABC) system has recently attracted the attention of many companies and is considered to provide better information about the cost pattern and the relationship between resources and activities. However, a survey of earlier research reveals that there are several difficulties to estimate the true product cost due to selection of overhead drivers to activities. To overcome these difficulties Temporal-ABC has been developed by Dr. K.D. Tham. In the first part of the report, costing system implementation issues are studied through real-time case studies. Then, research has been conducted and web-based proptotype application is developed using Temporal-ABC through collaboration with a world-class electronics industry - Celestica Inc. Toronto, Canada. The developed prototype demonstrates the application of Temporal-ABC for cost estimation at Celestica.


Author(s):  
S. A. Tunin ◽  
A.V. Frolov

The article presents the results of the development and testing of cost management methods in agricultural organizations. The purpose of the activity of any organization that has set itself the task of extracting profit is its growth and increasing the efficiency of its activities. As a rule, all organizations strive to maximize their profits while minimizing the costs incurred. In modern economic conditions, such an approach is possible only with a properly constructed effective cost management system. Rational use of available resources by organizations of the agro-industrial complex with proper cost management will allow organizations to be competitive in the market and carry out their activities in the foreseeable future. The subject of the study is the cost management accounting system, the object of the organization of the agro-industrial complex of the Stavropol Territory. The information base was the forms of specialized reporting of agricultural organizations of the Stavropol Territory. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the development of a methodology for the cost management system in the agro-industrial complex organizations of the Stavropol Territory.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9539
Author(s):  
Faris Elghaish ◽  
M. Reza Hosseini ◽  
Saeed Talebi ◽  
Sepehr Abrishami ◽  
Igor Martek ◽  
...  

Integrated project delivery (IPD) is a mode of project procurement recognised as facilitating superior project performance. However, this success is contingent on effective cost management practices that share cost data with all project stakeholders in an accurate, timely and transparent manner. Despite an extensive literature on aspects of cost management, none identifies the essential ingredients required of an effective cost management system, sufficiently robust to support successful IPD projects. Candidate cost management augmenting practices are drawn from the literature, and presented for scrutiny in questionnaire form, to fifty IPD experienced experts, based in the USA, UK and Australia. Findings reveal activity-based costing (ABC) to be effective at identifying overhead costs and creating accounting transparency. Similarly, earned value management (EVM), in combination with ABC, is effective at developing mathematical models for equitable risk-reward distribution. Moreover, web-based management systems, as supported by Building Information Modelling (BIM), are effective at generating trust and collaboration on which IPD success depends. A questionnaire survey using purposive sampling was conducted to assess the factors driving success of implementing IPD regarding cost management process. The contribution to knowledge made by this paper is in identifying requisite support mechanisms essential to elevate traditional cost management practices to the higher standard needed to ensure IPD delivery success.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Lenka Hudáková Stašová ◽  

This paper assesses calculation methods in the Visegrad 4 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and, based thereon, recommends and considers activity-based costing (ABC) in the agricultural sector, while evaluating manager knowledge of ABC as an appropriate alternative to outdated, “conventional” methods of calculating costs that are used in practice. It was found that a majority of agricultural holdings in the V4 are currently using conventional cost calculation methods and the most frequent reason for their failure to incorporate ABC is low awareness among managers. Farms and agricultural holdings that have introduced ABC and utilise it to assign their costs evaluate its benefits highly positively, in particular, ABC’s more accurate identification of costs, mainly overheads; more effective cost management and the accuracy of price estimates. From this analysis and assessment, introduction of ABC is recommended for companies in order to obtain the different benefits associated with the method. Successfully implementing ABC leads to a number of advantages, especially in the inevitable decision-making agricultural holdings face about high overhead costs. From the information obtained, managers at agricultural holdings have little information, in most cases, about ABC as an appropriate alternative to the outdated “conventional” cost estimate methods practised today. It is therefore important to work on raising managers' awareness of new approaches to costing by publishing scientific articles with specific examples from practice, pointing out the advantage of the ABC method, especially with high overheads, which are almost the rule in agricultural holdings.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-184
Author(s):  
Gregory Wegmann ◽  

This article examines cost accounting methods containing one or more activity-based costing (ABC) like dimensions. The objective is to analyze cost accounting proposals with, in part, a philosophy reminiscent ABC. The research purposes are to analyze the strategic dimension of the methods described and to build a typology useful for managers. The discussion leads to a four-dimensional typology based on three strategic objectives assigned to the cost accounting systems. The foundation of the research is the Strategic Cost Management Theory from which emerges the ABC philosophy. The methodology applied is an academic and professional literature review. The typology designed shows common points and similarities of the methods observed and their strategic dimensions. Some of the methods studied are more or less useful for practitioners, according to the situation of their companies. Keywords: strategic cost management, activity-based costing, typology


Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Temitope Omotayo ◽  
Bankole Awuzie ◽  
Temitope Egbelakin ◽  
Lovelin Obi ◽  
Mercy Ogunnusi

The incessant reportage of cost overruns and abandoned projects in contemporary literature have accentuated the need for a re-examination of the nature of the cost management strategies deployed to these projects. This study explores the potential of kaizen costing strategy to engender effective cost management within construction project delivery systems in developing countries. Data collected during this study were analysed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and systems thinking approaches to determine the criticality of the factors influencing the effective implementation of kaizen costing. Seven (7) archetypes leading to final causal loop diagram identified the incorporation of the plan–do–check–act approach to project and cost planning, the budgeting system of the construction companies, overhead cost reduction during construction and the overall procurement process. Executing these archetypes will potentially reduce high overhead costs, project cost and time overruns, as well as enhance construction industry sector growth policies and construction organisation corporate governance.


Author(s):  
Iryna Porsiurova ◽  

The activities of commercial enterprises in an economic imbalance requires the creation of an effective cost management system to make effective management decisions to optimize them. Terminological approaches to the definition of «cost management», which includes process and system approaches, are investigated. The interpretation of the economic category is given, so by cost management we mean a system of related functional, organizational and motivational elements, methods and mechanisms that form an integrity of management actions aimed at optimizing the level of company costs. It is determined that the activities of a trading company include external and internal environments, which together influence the adoption and implementation of management decisions to reduce costs. The cost management system of a trading company is proposed and the purpose, objects, subjects, tasks, functions and structural elements of the system are outlined. The developed cost management system will allow to systematize internal and external information flows in a set of functional subsystems and make effective management decisions to optimize the costs of the trading company. It is noted that an effective cost management system affects the formation of the financial result of the business structure and the distribution of net profit. Measures to optimize the costs of a commercial enterprise are proposed. It is expedient to create a reserve system to cover the costs of a commercial enterprise, which is aimed at: financing mandatory payments and covering costs; covering unforeseen costs and losses; in order to evenly distribute costs between periods. It is investigated that all reserves according to the method of reflection in the financial statements are divided into open and hidden. Reserves for optimization of enterprise costs are determined.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mourougavelou Vaithianathan

The cost management system is a powerful tool for managers to understand manufacturing plant performance. It is essential for any organization to develop a cost management system to estimate the product cost and to account actual cost spent for the product manufacturing. The Activity Based Costing (ABC) system has recently attracted the attention of many companies and is considered to provide better information about the cost pattern and the relationship between resources and activities. However, a survey of earlier research reveals that there are several difficulties to estimate the true product cost due to selection of overhead drivers to activities. To overcome these difficulties Temporal-ABC has been developed by Dr. K.D. Tham. In the first part of the report, costing system implementation issues are studied through real-time case studies. Then, research has been conducted and web-based proptotype application is developed using Temporal-ABC through collaboration with a world-class electronics industry - Celestica Inc. Toronto, Canada. The developed prototype demonstrates the application of Temporal-ABC for cost estimation at Celestica.


2021 ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
О.О. Шендрикова ◽  
А.В. Красникова ◽  
И.Ф. Елфимова

Введение. Условия функционирования промышленных режимных предприятий характеризуются ограниченностью ресурсов, усложнением конструктивных особенностей выпускаемой продукции, быстроменяющимися предпочтениями потребителей и высокой конкуренцией со стороны импортных аналогов. Вследствие чего удержание лидирующих позиций достигается путем снижения себестоимости производимой продукции при сохранении надлежащего качества выпускаемых изделий. Эти вопросы решаются путем организации эффективного управления затратами на режимных предприятиях. Формирование затрат режимных объектов имеет ряд особенностей, для понимания которых в статье дается определение терминам «режимное предприятие», «управление затратами», рассматриваются особенности статей калькуляции для режимных предприятий. Данные и методы. Авторами рассматривается понятие управления затратами, уточняется понятие затрат применительно к выбранной теме исследования. Выделяется ряд особенностей затрат режимного предприятия, которые должны быть учтены при формировании системы управления затратами. Предлагаются инструменты и механизм уменьшения затрат, образующие в совокупности предпосылки формирования системы управления затратами на режимных промышленных предприятиях. Рассматриваются результаты применения метода анализа иерархий для выявления резервов сокращения затрат на производство продукции, в рамках функционирования предложенного в работе организационно-экономического механизма снижения затрат на исследуемом в статье режимном предприятии. Полученные результаты. Для эффективного функционирования организационно-экономического механизма снижения затрат на режимном предприятии должна быть создана система ключевых инструментов, позволяющих своевременно принимать обоснованные решения по снижению затрат на производство продукции. Перечисленные в работе инструменты снижения затрат эффективны в комплексном применении. В свою очередь, их использование в совокупности с принципами бережливого производства способствует повышению конкурентоспособности и финансовых результатов. Комплексное применение рассмотренного в статье организационно-экономического механизма, инструментов управления затратами и методов бережливого производства открывает перспективы для разработки системы управления затратами на режимном промышленном предприятии. Заключение. Необходимость разработки системы управления затратами является закономерным процессом на фоне обострения международной конкуренции, в особенности, учитывая переход данной конкуренции в военно-политическую плоскость. Эффективное управление затратами на режимных предприятиях будет способствовать решению актуальных в настоящее время задач повышения конкурентоспособности отечественной продукции и создания импортозамещающих производств. Introduction The conditions of the design features of the products, the rapidly changing preferences of consumers and high competition from imported analogs. As a result, maintaining a leading position is achieved by reducing the cost of manufactured products while maintaining the proper quality of products. These issues are addressed through the organization of effective cost management at secure enterprises. The formation of the costs of secure facilities has a number of features, for the understanding of which the article defines the terms “secure enterprise”, “cost management”, considers the features of calculation items for secure enterprises. Data and methods. The authors consider the concept of cost management, clarify the concept of costs in relation to the selected research topic. A number of features of the costs of a regime enterprise are highlighted, which must be taken into account when forming a cost management system. Instruments and a mechanism for reducing costs are proposed, which together form the prerequisites for the formation of a cost management system at secure industrial enterprises. The article discusses the results of applying the method of analysis of hierarchies to identify reserves for reducing the costs of manufacturing products, within the framework of the functioning of the organizational and economic mechanism of cost reduction proposed in the work at the regime enterprise investigated in the article. Results. For the effective functioning of the organizational and economic mechanism for reducing costs at a regime enterprise, a system of key tools should be created that allow making timely informed decisions to reduce the costs of manufacturing products. The cost reduction tools listed in the work are effective in complex application. In turn, their use in conjunction with the principles of lean production contributes to increased competitiveness and financial results. The complex application of the organizational and economic mechanism considered in the article, cost management tools and lean production methods opens up prospects for the development of a cost management system at a regime industrial enterprise. Conclusion. The need to develop a cost management system is a natural process against the background of heightened international competition, especially given the transition of this competition to the military-political plane. Effective cost management at secure enterprises will contribute to solving the currently urgent tasks of increasing the competitiveness of domestic products and creating import-substituting industries.


2018 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
O.V. Olifer

The article identified and analyzed the cost factors in innovation projects on the optimization of the production structure in the forestry   enterprises. On this basis the model POV needs to consider the impact of cost and factors of the external and internal environment in which it is planned and implemented each project. In addition to these factors, the cost of the project is affected by other factors that are difficult subject to formal identification, but can affect both positively and negatively. However, to achieve project goals, it is possible only with the application of such well-known management approaches, as the classic approach, it combines such basic management functions as: planning, organization, implementation, control and guidance.


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