Cost accounting journal questions. My company is Walmart. You can find these information under the following sites: yahoo.com - finance section, Free SEC Filings Email Alerts - SECFilings.com, edgar-online.com

. 2. Based on publicly available information for your company, can you tell if the company uses an activity-based costing system? What advantages do you think an activity based costing system provides or would provide (if any) for this company? Explain your answer based on the characteristics of activity-based costing systems and what you have learned about your company.
3.Identify any ethical issues that might arise in this organization.
4. Consider the budgeting needs of the organization you’ve chosen. Though the company’s budget may not be publicly available, answer the following questions based on available information and your knowledge of budgets.
List three kinds of budgets you would prepare as part of an operating budget for the organization. Explain why you think each of the budgets would be included in the company’s operating budget.
1. Based on publicly available information for your company, can you discern what the cost drivers are for your company? If you can, what are they? If not, what cost drivers do you believe are relevant for your company?
2. Why do you consider them cost drivers?
3. Based on your company’s publicly available financial information and other publicly available information about your company’s operations, determine what sort of indirect costs your organization has and why.


Help I have been struggling on this for the past 3 days. It is due on Wednesday, June 3rd.

Janis Battery Company is considering accepting a special order of 50,000 batteries that it received from a discount retail store. The order specified a price of $4 per unit, which reflects a discount of $0.50 per unit relative to the company's regular price of $4.50 per unit. Jenis's accounting department ha prepared the following analysis to show the cost savings resulting from additional sales:

Cost per unit without Cost per unit with the
The Additional sales Additional sales
Costs (100,000 Units) (150,000 Units)
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Variable $3.30 $3.30
Fixed $4.20 $3.90
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No additional fixed costs will be incurred for this order because the company has surplus capacity. Because the average cost per unit will be reduced from $4.20 to $3.90, Jenis's president believes that a reduction price to $4 is justified for this order.

Required:

a) Should the order for the 50,000 units at a price of $4 be accepted? What will be the impact on Jenis's operating income?

b) Is the accounting department's analysis the best way to evaluate this decision? If not what alternative method can you suggest?

c) What other considerations are important in this case? Why?

Please post your own questions in your own new thread. Having different people's questions in the same thread is confusing. (I just wasted my time reading through the original post just to discover you have an entirely different problem.)

Hi my name is Manfred, I am taking cost accounting and having trouble with it, can anyone help

We can try to help, assuming we know the material you need help with. (There's a lot of stuff in cost accounting.) But first:

1) Read my post right above yours. Start your own thread. Obviously you did not even read this thread.
2) We aren't here to do homework for you. Please make an attempt to do the work first, and you can either post your answers and someone can check them, or ask some specific question about the part you don't understand.