EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction 3 Competitive Situation 4 Variable Costing 5 Existing Costing System 6 Diagram ABC 8 Activity Based Costing & Profitability 9 Conclusion 14 Bibliography 15 INTRODUCTION COMPETITIVE SITUATION Firstly, here is a brief description of what Wilkerson Company specializes in. According to our case study and various online sources, Wilkerson manufactures and markets a complete line of compressed air treatment components and control products. Now, like any other company out there in the corporate world, they all come across a point in business where they face a competitive situation, due to either their product line, pricing, or their financial system. According to our …show more content…
Nonetheless, competitors of Wilkerson overlooked the opportunity to make profit for themselves in flow controllers, due to the fact that Wilkerson has increased the product price by 10% without losing any business. President of the Wilkerson Company was discussing the business’s operating results with his financial controller and manufacturing manager. Reason for this meeting was because; competitors were now reducing the price of their pumps, posing a threat to Wilkerson’s major product line. Since pumps where a commodity product for Wilkerson, they had no other choice but to match the competitors price in order to maintain volume. Unfortunately, Wilkerson’s price cuts led to a decline in their company profits, especially in the pump line. However, the company had now started with a unique design for valves that is could produce to tolerances that were better than any industry. Due to this, Wilkerson established a loyal customer base. Wilkerson decided to introduce their existing labor skills and machining equipment from producing valves to produce pumps and flow controllers. Which eventually established a major presence in the high volume pump product line and a more customized flow controller …show more content…
Therefore on that basis, all products, including pumps would be generating substantial contribution to overhead and profits. Therefore, given the overhead allocation problems, Wilkerson’s best bet would be to adopt the variable costing method for various reasons, as follows: 1. This cost concept provides a better understanding of the effect of fixed costs on the net profits, due to the fact that total fixed cost for the period is shown on the income statement. 2. Also, various methods of controlling costs such as standard costing system and flexible budgets have close relation with the variable costing system, in turn making it easy to use those methods. 3. Companies using variable costing system are able to prepare income statement in contribution margin format that provides necessary information for cost volume profit (CVP) analysis. On the flip side, this data cannot be directly obtained from a traditional income statement prepared under absorption costing
Coca-Cola Co. v. Koke Co. of America, 254 U.S. 143 (1920) U.S. Sup. Ct. Facts: 1886 marked the invention of a caramel-colored soft drink created by John Pemberton. Coca-Cola got its name after two main ingredients, coca leaves and kola nuts. The Coca-Cola Company is suing Koke Company of America from using the word Koke on their products. They believe Koke Company of America is violating trademark infringement and is unfairly making and selling a beverage for which a trademark Coke has used.
He supports his claim using statistics about companies that formed monopolies. These statistics help solidify his reasoning and gain more understanding on his opinion. John D. Rockefeller Had 85 percent control over the market of kerosene and Will states that, “Kerosene prices fell from 30 cents a gallon in 1869 to 6 cents in 1897”. Will attempts to persuade reader that while “Rockefeller’s monopoly over the oil industry was branded as “menacing”, his control over the oil sector led to other companies such as Ford to finding opportunity. Ford was able to take advantage of the low oil prices to sell massive amounts of Model T’s for an affordable price.
Costs can be identified by different types of classification. Two types of expenditures that can be classified by behavior are variable and fixed costs. Variable costs are defined as expenses that vary directly and comparably to alterations in volume (Nowicki, 2015). An example of a variable cost within a healthcare organization would be the price of supplies to run the billing department or hourly staffing wages. Fixed costs will stay consistent no matter the volume (Nowicki, 2015).
While they are concerned about the company's cash flow, they recognize the potential at Endius and, since they have a personal relationship with Davison, they are willing to extend generous terms to the company. In either case, cash flow will be a problem since neither employees nor contractors will be willing to work without some payment. Generally, however, the external threats to the organization are minimal at this time. Problem Definition At this point, the problem facing Endius is whether it should outsource the product development of its steerable forceps, or develop the product in-house.
In this round of competition, it became clear that several of the decisions we made were hurting our results at the end of the year; therefore, team Baldwin did not earning as much profit as the other teams and its market share was not a strong as it would like to see. It is clear that firms should utilize competitive dynamic research to compile data to understand what the consumer deems important in his or her buying decision (Williams, 2007). A firm may fail to understand what the user requires and the amount of competition in today’s competitive global market will cause a loss of market share and loss of revenue potential. Consequently, just as in the real business world, the sales and profit were negligible up to this point in the
2.2 Industry Analysis - Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis Threat of Substitutes Bicycles and services from unknown manufacturers can provide huge substitution threats. Just as alarming for bicycle manufacturers is the internet: it is developing as an excellent medium for cheap marketing services. The price that consumer are willing to pay for a product is depends the quantity and the availability of substitute products. When a close substitute for a product is exist, industry profitability is suppressed because consumer will pick out if the price are high. Example consumer will compare the price of other bicycles with this bicycle in terms of quality and appearance, a customer can easily get another bicycle which is less difference but in more cheaper
FRAME 14 CONTINUED... The toral costs to be assigned to the various products manufactured are usually measured in accordance with the principles of financial accounting. The accrual concept, the distinction between costs that are to be capitalized and those that are to be expensed, the various methods of depreciation, and similar topics apply equally here. Product cost information is used for purposes other than the preparation of financial statements, however, and for these other purposes, the principles of financial accounting do not necessarily apply.
POLITICAL Political factors can often give a big impact on the business of a company. Often this factor is not in the hand of the organization. Several aspects of government policies can make a huge difference. However, all firls are required to follow the law. It is the responsibility of the organization to find how upcoming legislations can affect their activities.
Threat of Substitutes 4. Bargaining Power of Buyers 5. Power vested by Suppliers 1. Competitive Rivalry: According to Porter the competitiveness in any sector is significantly increased by the number of players operating in the field and their major competencies.
Motilal oswal securities Ltd The Motilal oswal ltd company was the parent company of the Motilal oswal securities ltd, it was the subsidiary company. Motilal Oswal Company was established by Motilal oswal and Raamdeo agarwal in 1987 and gets the membership from the BSE. It got it final certificate of registration approval in the year 2010 from the securities and exchange board of India regarding the setup and expansion of the business of mutual funds in the country. Motilal oswal securities ltd was incorporated in the year 1994 and its main business is stock broking and wealth management. Motilal Oswal Company has 99.95 % holdings previously which became 100 % holdings In Motilal securities ltd .It was one of the subsidiary company of the
When a company is competing through its differentiation advantage; it would try to carry out its activities in a much better manner than the
In terms of controlling, the management of Marks and Spencer has frequent reporting of expenditures with costs to provide a form of feedback. The reactions of managers to such type of data rely on the expectations or the formal budget or planned targets. The management believes in collecting and assigning cost data that is being shifted away from control. There is a recognition related to the repetitive exercise of planning and re-planning for creating a full time job for accountants. The assessment and evaluation of cost data in the aspects of launching new product by Marks and Spencer is about gaining insights and learning ways for achieving the goals of organisation in most effective manner.
They used a poor alternate plan to try and resolve their many mistakes they made during the designing process. Instead of going through with the alternate plan and utilizing a manually operated control system, he should have stopped production and replaced the cheaper controls with the more expensive controls. I believe that it is important to spend the necessary money for the equipment that will ensure the safety of the workers in the company and follow EPA regulations. Wally did not think about others when making his greedy
Regal Marine’s Mission The Company’s mission is to get their product lowering costs through marketing strategies with suppliers and with the highest possible quality. Regal Marine is a company where design, technology and business strategy are equally important to achieve its goal, increase sales and gain customer satisfaction. Strengths: 1. The company has position itself in super boat market where it specialized in the luxury performance boats 2.
The selection of cost drivers may be problematical. Even with this method, some indirect costs remain difficult to assign to products, such as the chief executive's salary for example. These costs are then unallocated and called ‘business sustaining’. The ABC system is not the perfect solution to allocate every single overhead cost. Some of them remain hard to identify and assign to an activity within the company.