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- An Introduction to the Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon Interface
- Articles 2007-02-05
- Better ABC.(BOOK OF THE MONTH)(activity-based costing)(Brief article)
- Textbook activity-based costing appears straightforward--a great way to manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Textbook activity-based costing appears straightforward--a great way to manage a company's...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- A-B-C, easy as 1-2-3: attaching costs to specific tasks and services can maximize your profits and productivity.(Activity-Based Costing)
- Setting prices, determining hard and soft costs, and figuring out overhead expenses are a few of the basic tenets of business. Unfortunately, not all companies get it right. In fact, Tom Pryor has seen a lot of distributorships in the last few year Setting...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Re-learning your ABCs: ABC and CPA can be valuable tools when you learn how to use them. (activity-based costing analysis; customer profitability analysis)
- All these years the ABCs for me referred to the alphabet, and a CPA was either a Certified Public Accountant or a "cart path assist" for an errant golf shot. However, about five years ago I performed an Activity-Based Costing Analysis ABC All these years the...
- Research articles 1997-09-01
- ACTIVITY BASED COSTING and performance improvement.(part 2)
- With activity-based accounting ABC, management can concentrate on performance issues. Traditional accounting contains accurate but irrelevant, late, and misleading information. ABC has an important impact on cost and quality and a moderate effect on timWith activity-based accounting ABC, management can concentrate on performance issues. Traditional accounting contains accurate but irrelevant,...
- Research articles 1999-03-01
- ABC's of activity-based costing, The
- by Bart T. Capps* and Peter S. Timlin**
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- MAXIMUS Acquires Government Activity Based Costing — ABC — firm
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2000-07-31
- DIY ABC: received wisdom states that sponsorship at board level is crucial when you're implementing an ABC system. Andrew Booth explains how Co-operative Insurance Services managed without it.(Technology)(management of activity-based costing)
- Formed back in 1867, Co-operative Insurance Services CIS is the only co-operative in its industry. It has 4.5 million customers and manages funds worth more than 20 billion [pounds sterling]. Formed back in 1867, Co-operative Insurance Services CIS is the only co-operative in its...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- As easy as ABC: using activity based costing in service industries
- The current accounting literature is filled with activity based costing |ABC~ articles about cost drivers in manufacturing settings but very few examples of cost driver applications in service firms or industries exist. A number of the applications of cost drivers in manufacturing plants, however, involve service functions rather than a...
- Research articles 1993-02-01
- Activity-based costing: public bodies are finding more and more applications for ABC data. Lana Liu explains a CIMA-sponsored study of its use in the Crown Prosecution Service
- The Crown Prosecution Service CPS is a government agency that provides legal justice services relating to criminal offences committed in England and Wales. On its inception in 1986 it employed a large number of permanent stall including lawyers. But the number of criminal cases declined significantly over the years and...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- ABCs of milk selling - activity-based costing
- We're in the heart of the "Spring Flush," and to hear the experts talk, you'd probably expect to see white rivers of milk flowing outside your office window. The reality isn't quite that extreme, but the milk production rebound of 1999 is putting pressure on dairy marketers to work every...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
- Using activity-based costing to assess channel/customer profitability: better understanding of your customers' profitability picture is imperative for survival in today's competitive environment. Here the CFO of an employment services company used ABC to
- "With better information and accounting systems, firms are beginning to disaggregate revenues and costs to customer or account level. This analysis often reveals previously hidden subsidies across customers, products, and markets." (1)
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Voyage of discovery: for all its professed benefits, activity-based costing isn't an easy system to implement. Selvan Naidoo draws on his experiences of establishing ABC in a shipping company to describe the key decisions to be made—and the major pit
- Activity-based costing ABC is often viewed as a daunting task, perhaps quite rightly so. The processes of data accumulation and cleansing demand a lot of effort, but following a few basic principles from the start can help to sharpen your focus and improve results.
- Research articles 2002-05-01
- As easy as ABC: much has been written about the advantages of activity-based costing, but how complicated is it to implement within your business? John Porteous shares his experience at Barclays
- Barclays Service Provision SP was formed in 1999, following a strategic review of IT and operations within the Barclays banking group. When this substantial business division recently implemented activity-based costing ABC, it had to tackle specific problems in an extremely short time. It found that the experience brought to the...
- Research articles 2001-11-01
- Multi-dimensional databases are good for ABC. (activity-based costing) (includes related articles)
- Many companies seeking to undertake activity-based management and activity-based costing are often hindered by their existing management software systems that are unable to build complex cost models. However, traditional multi-dimensional databases are abMany companies seeking to undertake activity-based management and activity-based costing are often hindered by their existing management software...
- Research articles 1995-09-01
- Learning ABC in Spain... with no sour grapes. (Activity-based costing)
- Activity-based costing ABC is seen as a sophisticated accounting tool. It is used by Torres S.A. of Spain, a quality wine and brandy producer. The company had previously used a direct cost system, but introduced ABC to tackle the fixed overhead problem.Activity-based costing ABC is seen as a sophisticated accounting...
- Research articles 1995-10-01
- Activity-Based Costing For State And Local Governments
- State and local governments have a common goal: to provide products and services to their taxpaying constituents at the lowest possible cost. Many governments, however, are not perceived to be particularly efficient in realizing this goal. This article explains the ABC system and advances its application to state and local...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The A to Z of ABC Dictionaries: Activity Based Costing
- Activity-based costing initiatives can easily go awry if everyone isn't using commonly understood terms. But creating a reference guide requires arriving at a consensus on what each definition should be. The paper says that language of business is imprecise. What one company defines as gross revenues another may call gross...
- White papers 1999-12-01
- The ABCs of Activity-Based Cost Accounting for a Distribution Business
- Article discusses about Activity-Based Costing, which is a "new" strategic cost and profitability management tool that can provide distributor warriors with information on "existing" products, customers, and operations. Traditionally, distributors have either sold their way to profitability via growth strategies or saved their way to profitability (via lean and mean...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Throw Out Fixed and Variable Cost Thinking—Bring In Activity-Based Costing for Distribution Decisions
- This article suggests a new way of thinking about costs in distribution management. It defines that distributors need cost information, not to track the cost of manufacturing operations, but to make strategic management decision for example decisions on pricing, unbundling value-added services, customer profitability, vendor profitability, and automating processes. This...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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