Answer:
Unfreezing
Explanation:
There are three phases of organizational change. Sun Technologies can be said to be at its unfreezing stage.
The organization must properly communicate with its employees and consumers at each level of changes they are.
- At the unfreezing stage, the goal is to change the mindset and belief of the consumers about a particular process being deployed.
- Since the adoption of the new technology is being advertised as one that will make things better, we can see elements of unfreezing here.
- Other stages are the actual change phase and freezing stage
Answer to Question 1:
The forces that had lessened the importance of the cost and management accounting systems in today's dynamic world are as under:
- The ancient bookkeeping and the costing techniques were very time consuming and the accounting systems were also not integrated with the financial accounting systems. Today we have very robust and integrated systems which helps the management of the business operations nation wide with greater security and better performance than the previous old versions.
- The complexity of the organization operations have resulted in origination of additional management accounting techniques that were adapted in the form of automated software, that are used to produce management reports on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The examples include the Throughput costing, Activity based costing, Bench-marking techniques, etc.
- The activities automation has led to attaining of maximum efficiency possible in some areas which wasn't possible in the past. The robots management systems, activity automation, etc has increased the fixed cost share in the total cost and the variable cost has become a very minute share of the total cost of the activity. This variable cost which is often referred to as controllable cost, is very less in percentage share of total cost today than 10 years back. In the future, we will see it as a very very very small share of total cost. This makes the today's management costing techniques obsolete and requires new solutions, new techniques, new softwares, etc. to manage the companies operations.
Answer to Question 2:
The target costing is a costing technique that helps to reduce the cost of the company operations by setting cost targets for the operations. The first step under target costing is to set a selling price for the product and the second step is to set the target profit margin. Now at this position we are able to derive the target cost by taking the difference of profit margin and the selling price of the product. At this stage the actions and reforms required to achieve this target cost are determined and implemented in the current operating activities. The best part of the target costing is that it says that the pricing though matters but the main aspect of a product success is its cost controls. If the company is able to control the cost of the product then it can control the movement of prices in the market. So target costing specially focuses and stresses upon cost control procedures.
As Target costing is all about cost controlling and can be applied to any sector. In Ghana, target costing will help to control the cost of the services that the banking sector renders to its customers. This reduction in services cost can be achieved by automation, installation of new softwares, Investing in automated teller machines, etc. By gaining efficiencies, the banking sector will substantially reduce its cost thus achieving its target cost.
By achieving the target cost the bank will have to sell at the same rate as the bank had invested its time and money in efficiency gaining activities. There are a lot of activities and products that can be automated and that can help to achieve the target cost. For example, promoting internet banking will reduce the cost of ATM management, paper cost, management time, additional branch opening or extension of building, etc. We can see how easily internet banking will assist the banking sector to achieve its target costs.
Answer: A) Income Summary
Explanation:
The Income Summary account is used to compile temporary accounts before posting them to capital accounts. Revenues, Expenses and Cost of Goods are temporary accounts which will be compiled in the Income summary account.
The Income summary account has a debit and a credit side with income going on the credit side and expenses going on the debit side. If the credit side is higher than the debit side then profits have been made. The reverse is true.
Answer:
$3,176 , it's two months of interests $1,588 + $1,588
Explanation:
If the company paid each month 1/12 of capital plus interest it means that it's necessary to deduct the total amount of interests paid each month.
The company paid $25,588 and the monthly capital it's $24,000, therefore the company paid on interest an amount of $1,588 each month.
The issue of a one year installment note means that the company repay the principal to the lender in a series of periodic payments, in this case each month pay principal plus interests
In the income statement we have to applied the accrual criteria which means that the company only recognize the interest paid in the past months, November and December.
Answer:
Bond Price= $1,081.1
Explanation:
Giving the following formula:
Face value= $1,000
Number of periods= 5*2= 10 semesters
Coupon= (0.1/2)*1,000= $50
YTM= 0.08/2= 0.04
<u>To calculate the price of the bond, we need to use the following formula:</u>
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Bond Price= cupon*{[1 - (1+i)^-n] / i} + [face value/(1+i)^n]
Bond Price= 50*{[1 - (1.04^-10)] / 0.04} + [1,000 / (1.04^10)]
Bond Price= 405.54 + 675.56
Bond Price= $1,081.1
