Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
122 becomes acute, tying up capital needed for operations or investment, while leaving a false impression of performance. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 6 ❏ After breakeven, inventory and overhead are the most important cost accounting concepts to master. ❏ Cost accounting is just a way to measure management performance. ❏ Cost behavior patterns in both inventory and overhead have an impact on financial statements that you can control. ❏ In retail there’s basically one inventory; in manufacturing there are three. ❏ There are two product-based inventory systems—specific unit and weighted average—and two time period inventory systems—FIFO and LIFO. ❏ Classifying costs correctly and separating fixed and vari- able from mixed are necessary for valid analysis. ❏ Overhead analysis gives you an opportunity to affect your financial statements also. Webster06.qxd 8/29/2003 5:48 PM Page 122 123 7 C onventional thinking would have you add up all the raw material and equipment you bought, all the wages and ben- efits you paid, and all the rents, interests, and other period costs you owed and then call that your total cost. You would then divide the total cost by the total production to arrive at a cost per unit. The units you sell give you the income to offset those costs. Any inventory left over is just assets waiting to be sold. Simple. Why the Fuss? It is simple—as long as the numbers stay low, as in our Liquid Lemons example, and there’s no competition. Once the dollar volume goes up and competition enters, knowing the firm’s cost structure becomes critical. It drives almost every action you take in planning production, allocating resources, and setting prices. Many small manufacturing firms start out with a single prod- uct and then branch out into more models, sizes, and colors. Management then runs into problems tracking these seemingly Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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