Organizations that use primitive costing methods make predictable mistakes, allocating too much cost to easy, high-volume "gravy" products and too little cost to difficult, low-volume "dog" jobs, putting an organization with inferior information at a significant competitive disadvantage. The secret to being the “smart competitor” is learning how to deal with overhead.
This session will show you how to assign 16 key overhead categories. Whether you work in a wholesale, retail, healthcare, service or manufacturing business, you will find this session invaluable. Get your cost right, and you will be able to give the "dogs" to your competitors and keep the "gravy" for yourself.
DESIGNED FOR
Financial professionals attempting to improve profitability
BENEFITS
- Why all products have a mixture of fixed, variable and step variable costs
- How cost can be very volume-sensitive
- Insights into assigning 16 overhead cost categories
PREREQUISITES
Previous cost accounting coursework
ADVANCE PREPARATION
None