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This 4 page paper is based on a case study supplied by the student. Answering three questions the first part of the paper looks at whether or not activity based accounting methods would be suitable for agricultural businesses such as farms, the second part of the paper discusses potentially bad decisions that may be made where activity based accounting is not used and the last part of the paper reviews an article that supports the use of activity based accounting of fixed/variable cost accounting. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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potentially valuable system that could be useful for John and Mary as well as other agricultural enterprises. The development of a system where there are cost center and profit centers
creates a system where it will be possible to allocate all costs in an effective manner to help assess the value that the different goods are produced. In agriculture there
are a number of overhead costs which need to be controlled. Where there are cost centers these activities are controlled with the
need to comply with set budgets (Chadwick, 2004). This gives measures and controls that can be used for the function that do not create immediate revenues. The profit centers are
where there is an expectation that the profit will exceed the costs. The cost centers feed into the profit centers, as they allocate the costs. Therefore this is a process
that gives increased control over costs, allows for a higher degree of transparency for the cost allocated to production and with the costs accounted for and controlled the profit centers
are more likely to be able to realize a profit. However, there are also some drawbacks, to implement the system there will
need to be an assessment of costs that will take place for the cost centers in order for the budgets to be set and the projections may be erroneous. As
agricultural goods prices are volatile this may make it difficult to project actual prices that will be achieved from which to make sure budgets will ensure that there is a
profit. There is also the potential of an increased bureaucratic burden and it is also possible that the way that costs are allocated may not necessarily be accurate in terms
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