Kamis, 26 April 2012

RESENSI BUKU EKONOMI (ENGLISH VERSION)


Book Title: Management Accounting
Authors: Hansen & Mowen
Publisher: Four Salemba
Matter:
edition 7, 2004
Thickness: xx + 572 pages
Books are important things that need our attention from various types of books. Proverb said "Books are the windows to the world". This means that the book has a lot of information that we can get. By reading, we can see what is happening in the outside world. Such as, when we read a book on economics written by Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen has many benefits in the business world. Many works of they produced such a book titled Managerial Accounting, Cost Management, Management Accounting, and many others.
on the occasion, I will discuss one of the books produced by Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen is book 7th edition of Management Accounting, which can give us the knowledge needed to succeed in the business world!
The book of Management accounting 7th edition provides in-depth discussion on traditional topics such as job order costing and process costing. Other than, it presents a description of the topics that are important and innovative as activity based costing (ABC), quality cost management, strategic cost analysis, inventory management, but it also discusses about the setting: The Role, History, and Objectives of Management Accounting as discussed in Chapter 1, accounting and Activity Based Strategy, and many more discussions about the calculations that are needed in the field of management accounting.
In the matter found by the author on ABC (activity based costing), is an accounting system that focuses on activities undertaken to produce products and services. Its mean that, How to allocate the BOP as a component of cost of production to the product with a fair and appropriate based on its activity. Activity (activity) - any event or transaction which is the cost driver. Triggers costs (cost drivers) - factor the cause (causal factor) of the costs incurred.
In ABC, the research must be conducted any activity undertaken to produce the product. Accuracy of activity will lead to the discovery of the calculation accuracy of the cost of the product.
Viable companies can use the ABC if it meets the following conditions:
1. Capital-intensive companies (many use the machine)
2. the company
can diversifying the product
3. Diversifying the products and use the same facilities
4. Each product has a different production process.
Activity that often arise:
Setting a production machine - the activity of the preparation of plant machinery to make new products (each new customer order requires the setting)
Inspection of quality control - controlling the activity of the product to conform to established specifications.
Changes in engineering - the activity of processing changes the design or specification of a product
Stages of the ABC system
1. Tracing or allocating costs to activities à collection activity fee.
2. Collection of fees above activities, are charged to products, using the cost driver.
In addition, this book also includes questions, exercises, cases, and writing tasks that will broaden the knowledge and analytical skills of students.

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