The Important of accounting for throughput and its role in supporting the competitive advantage for Sudanese industrial companies: أهمية المحاسبة عن الإنجاز ودورها في دعم الميزة التنافسية في الشركات الصناعية السودانية

The study investigated the important of accounting for throughput and its role in supporting the competitive advantage for Sudanese industrial companies. The problem of the study was that the traditional costing systems not considered accurate in providing information that would help support the competitive advantage in the Sudanese industrial companies. Which lead to look for modern systems، especially the method of accounting for achievement، the study Objectives to clarify the role of the accounting method for achievement in supporting the competitive advantage of Sudanese industrial companies. Accounting for through represents a new method in the field of accounting، as result of the continuous changes in the labor market and intense competition that requires the diversity of products and increasing their quality to continue in competition، the research can be fellow the descriptions analysis methodology. The study results: The method of accounting for throughput works to manage bottlenecks in the production process، which helps in delivering the product in a timely manner، which in turn contributes to supporting the competitive advantage for industrial companies. The study Recommendations: the need to continuing research and study in the tools raised by the method of accounting for throughput and their relationship to the various methods that contribute to supporting competition.

A Stochastic Approach for Product Costing in Manufacturing Processes

Nowadays, manufacturing companies are characterized by complex systems with multiple products being manufactured in multiple assembly lines. In such situations, traditional costing systems based on deterministic cost models cannot be used. This paper focuses on developing a stochastic approach to costing systems that considers the variability in the process cycle time of the different workstations in the assembly line. This approach provides a range of values for the product costs, allowing for a better perception of the risk associated to these costs instead of providing a single value of the cost. The confidence interval for the mean and the use of quartiles one and three as lower and upper estimates are proposed to include variability and risk in costing systems. The analysis of outliers and some statistical tests are included in the proposed approach, which was applied in a tier 1 company in the automotive industry. The probability distribution of the possible range of values for the bottleneck’s cycle time showcase all the possible values of product cost considering the process variability and uncertainty. A stochastic cost model allows a better analysis of the margins and optimization opportunities as well as investment appraisal and quotation activities.

An Analysis of the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing System in Foundation Higher Education Organizations

Changes in globalization and technology have made the competition in the education sector more in-tense. This change in competition has reduced the profit margins of educational organizations. In order to maintain their market share and maintain their assets under these conditions, organizations have had to put greater stress on cost management. Today, cost management has moved beyond simply being a sub-system of accounting and has become one of the main tasks of business management. Higher education organizations need to use scarce resources effectively and efficiently to achieve their goals, develop long-term strategies, and maintain their existence. The extent to which resources are used by whom and for what time should be determined correctly. The outputs obtained during this process should be checked and interpreted correctly. This study was designed as a case study and conducted in a vocational school of a foundation university in Istanbul. The aim of this study is to examine the service production process in foundation vocational school with different costing methods and to compare the results. For this purpose, the costs of the vocational school for the 2016-2017 accounting period were calculated by using both the traditional costing method and the time-driven activity-based cost-ing method. These two methods were then compared to find out their degree of accuracy in calculating the program costs.

APLIKASI ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING PADA UMKM

The fact that there was a challenge for the UMKM sector was the lack of capability in terms of business menegement. One of them was accuracy in calculating the amount of the main price of production on the resulting product. even though that calculation was crucial in determining the selling price of the product. Therefore, it was important to apply a better method to make the right decision. The purpose of this study was to analyze the comparison of the calculation of the price of production using traditional costing (TC) and Activity-Based Costing (ABC) methods, as well as analyzed the advantage in gaining the application of this method. This research was a descriptive qualitative study with interview methods and documentation. The analysis showed that in the calculation of the underlying price between TC production and ABC, there was an undercosted of 4.04%, while for the profit difference there was 1.2%.

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and Its Implication for Open Innovation

Activity-based costing system, commonly known as the ABC system, emerged as a costing method capable of overcoming the limitations of traditional costing systems in face of economic and technological developments, namely, the arbitrary and imprecise allocation of indirect costs from distortions in the imputation criteria. In the current context, the development of an adequate costing system is of extreme importance in organisations because they feel the need to properly manage the resources at their disposal and control their costs to achieve efficient and effective management. Thus, this study aims to analyse international publications on the activity-based costing system in recent years, identifying trends in evolution and future research opportunities. Based on bibliometric techniques, the outputs obtained in the Web of Science (n = 752) and Scopus (n = 1107) databases were analysed in bibliometrix R package to make a systematic mapping and review of the literature. After removing duplicates, we obtained a final output of 1419 articles. The analysis of these publications points to a growing trend in the publication of articles on ABC, highlighting publications in partnership and their dispersion in magazines from different areas. The bibliometric analysis carried out results on the authors’ global research performance over time, and we highlighted the pioneering publications every five years and analysed the general evolution. When analysing based on publication authors over time, we highlighted the main research themes and countries where studies had been carried out. On the other hand, we also highlighted the collaborative network between institutions, authors, and countries over time.

A Guide to Implementation of Time- Driven Activity -Based Costing in Saudi Electronic University

This research proposes a guide to implementation of time- driven activity -based costing (TDABC) in Saudi Electronic University (SEU) as an alternative to the traditional costing systems. It is worth mentioning that the cost accounting system should support mission and vision of the university by detecting any idle capacity and providing relevant information for rational decision-making as well as improving the quality of services provided to students and finally managing SEU’s resources efficiently and effectively. According to Saudi’s vision 2030, public universities in Saudi Arabia should act on both of revenue side and cost side. In the current costing system of SEU, there are no cost pools at colleges’ level, at academic departments’ level, at courses’ level, as well as at students’ level. Rather cost pools found at university’ level only. Therefore, the current costing system provides neither information on unit cost per student at any academic program nor information on the unused capacity at any resource centers. Despite the fact that TDABC theoretically overcomes the criticism to both traditional costing system that uses direct labor or machine hours as a cost driver and the traditional activity- based costing (ABC that uses many transactions cost drivers to allocate overhead costs to cost objects. The implementation of TDABC is still challenging particularly in universities by using the time as the primary cost driver for allocating resource costs to final cost objects in academic programs especially the human labor is considered the main resource in universities. The proposed guide to implementation TDABC provided SEU’s management information, including but not limited to, the average actual unit cost per student in each academic program either per semester, or per year, comparing actual fees students paid in each academic program to the actual average unit cost in each academic program to determine whether SEU covers all costs. In addition, comparing the average unit cost per student among all academic programs and investigating reasons of variations. The guide helps management determine the unused capacity in each resource center as well as preparing budgets of all resource centers accurately based on the actual used capacity.

Integrating Activity Based Costing (ABC) with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for Effective Management: A Literature Review

In the age of a global competition environment, the accurate costing measurement is important for planning and decision-making. To achieve this goal, contemporary costing methods are tested and applied such as the Activity Based Costing (ABC) in conjunction with the use of modern Information Technology (IT). The review study attempts a comparative analysis of both ABC and Traditional Costing Accounting (TCA), examining the main themes emerging from academic research and practitioners concerning the challenges, benefits, and barriers of ABC, analyzing the impact of the integration between ERP and ABC systems and its effect on management performance. A review of the literature generated an initial pool of 322 studies. Upon extensive review, 38 studies were found to be relevant to this topic. It appears from the review and analysis of the academic literature and professional sources that a successful integration among ERP and ABC minimizes the operation costs, enhances competitiveness, improves the management of the enterprise, due to its abilities to provide more accurate costing information for a strategic decision. However, practical implications in adopting ABC under ERP could be very challenging, requires a huge amount of internal resources, commitment among employees, and top management. In closing, additional research studies employing both qualitative and quantitative methods as well as case studies are needed in order to provide insights into the impact of ERP and detailed implications of how the ABC accounting system is adapting to the ERP environment and its effect on firm performance.

The role of management accounting practices in the success of Small and Medium-sized enterprises in Durban

The sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa is important, mainly because of their contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country as a whole. Nonetheless, the high rate of SME failure in South Africa is largely attributable to lack of management skills by owners and managers of these SMEs. This study investigated the role of management accounting practices in the success of SMEs in Durban. The objectives were to identify the types of management accounting practices used in SMEs, to examine factors that affect the use of management accounting practices by SMEs, to examine the extent to which management accounting practices are used by SMEs and to examine the impact of management accounting practices in SMEs’ success. A quantitative approach was adopted in a form of self-administered questionnaires which were mailed to respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics to summarise the opinions of the respondents from the data collected. The findings were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. The findings of the study indicate that although the management accounting practices were not often used, the most used costing system was traditional costing as well as process costing. In terms of the decision support and investment appraisal tools, the most used tool was the accounting rate of return followed by the payback method and relevant cost and revenues. Planning and control techniques such as the sales budget and production costing were also used by SMEs in Durban. Factors that affect the use of management accounting practices are the lack of management accounting knowledge, lack of education and skills and the cost to employ management accountants. Management accounting practices were found to have a positive relationship with planning and performance. Challenges faced by SMEs are financial challenges, human resource challenges as well as technological challenges. The study recommended that SMEs’ owners and managers should attend management accounting training, employ management accountants or outsource the management accounting function. Implementing management accounting practices by SMEs may improve their business management in terms of cost controls and decision-making

PERBANDINGAN TARIF JASA RAWAT INAP MENGGUNAKAN METODE TRADITIONAL COSTING DAN ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (STUDI KASUS RS JAMBI)

This study aims to find out how to implement the activity based costing method as the basis for determining the rates of inpatient services at Jambi Hospital. In conducting this research, the method used by the writer is quantitative descriptive method. Based on the results of the study, the tariff setting uses the activity based costing method to produce cheaper rates for VIP, Class I, and Class II, while generating more expensive rates for Class III compared to the rates set by Jambi Hospital. Rates for inpatient services with an activity based costing method for VIP Rp 670.435, Class I Rp 431.491, Class II Rp 373.275, and Class III Rp 331.508.