Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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International Transfer
Pricing One objective of multina- tional companies is to minimize worldwide taxes and tariffs. When taxes and tariffs differ among countries in which the firm operates, a company may have an incentive to use transfer pricing to shift taxable income from high- er-tax countries to lower- tax countries. In some instances, this can be the sole rationale for opening a branch office. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 8 ❏ 98% of senior executives think they don’t get good cost information from their management systems. ❏ 80% of senior executives place a medium or low priority on implementing new cost management tools. ❏ There is a lot of pain in moving to a new management accounting system. Many managers will do all they can to avoid it. ❏ Balanced scorecard is a comprehensive new accounting system that uses insights from business research to give managers a clearer understanding of their cost structure. Accounting for Managers 168 Keep at Arm’s Length Many international com- panies get overly creative in setting transfer prices higher or lower to min- imize the impact of taxes.To discour- age this transfer price manipulation, governments have established compli- cated rules based on the arm’s length standard. Basically, they require compa- nies to set transfer prices at the level as two unrelated parties would set them if the parties were trading the same product under the same circum- stances in a competitive market Webster08.qxd 8/29/2003 5:52 PM Page 168 ❏ One key way that BSC achieves its results is through a double feedback loop of internal and external performance metrics. ❏ Just-in-time inventory is a new, hybrid cost system that applies new cost control insights to the production process. ❏ JIT uses backflush costing to achieve added savings. ❏ Operation costing is another hybrid cost system that gives managers the flexibility to record costs under mixed pro- duction methods. ❏ Environmental/full cost accounting recognizes that a wide variety of environmental costs must now be recorded and factored into management decision-making. Getting a jump on full cost accounting can give some companies a competitive advantage. ❏ Target costing is a process that shows how cost data can be developed independent from the general ledger and used to guide decisions. ❏ Transfer pricing is a cost strategy that companies use to transfer goods and services internally within the organiza- tion. Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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