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MCSPPT 12402928851 Phpapp01
MCSPPT 12402928851 Phpapp01
Learning Objective 1 Describe a management control system and its three key properties.
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Organization Structure
Total decentralization
Total centralization
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Benefits of Decentralization
Creates greater responsiveness to local needs Leads to gains from quicker decision making Increases motivation of subunit managers Assists management development and learning Sharpens the focus of subunit managers
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Costs of Decentralization
Suboptimal decision making may occur Focuses the managers attention on the subunit rather than the organization as a whole Increases the costs of gathering information Results in duplication of activities
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Responsibility Centers
Cost center Re enue center
Profit center
In estment center
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Learning Objective 3 Explain transfer prices and four criteria used to evaluate them.
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Transfer Pricing
A transfer price is the price one subunit charges for a product or service supplied to another subunit of the same organization. Intermediate products are the products transferred between subunits of an organization.
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Transfer Pricing
Transfer pricing should help achieve a companys strategies and goals. fit the organizations structure promote goal congruence promote a sustained high level of management effort
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Transfer-Pricing Methods
Market-based transfer prices Cost-based transfer prices Negotiated transfer prices
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$13 2 3 $18
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What is the Refining Division operating income using the full cost price?
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Learning Objective 5 Illustrate how market-based transfer prices promote goal congruence in perfectly competitive markets.
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Learning Objective 6 Avoid making suboptimal decisions when transfer prices are based on full cost plus a markup.
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Learning Objective 7 Understand the range over which two divisions negotiate the transfer price when there is unused capacity.
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Prorating
Lomas & Co. may choose a transfer price that splits on some equitable basis the difference between the maximum transfer price and the minimum transfer price. $23 $19 = $4 Suppose that variable costs are chosen as the basis to allocate this $4 difference.
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Prorating
The Transportation Divisions variable costs are $2 1,000 = $2,000. The Refining Divisions variable costs to refine 1,000 of crude oil into 500 barrels of gasoline are $8 500 = $4,000.
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Prorating
The Transportation Division gets to keep $2,000 $6,000 $4 = $1.33. The Refining Division gets to keep $4,000 $6,000 $4 = $2.67. What is the transfer price from the Transportation Division? $17.00 + $2.00 + $1.33 = $20.33
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Dual Pricing
An example of dual pricing is for Lomas & Co. to credit the Transportation Division with 112% of the full cost transfer price of $24.64 per barrel of crude oil. Debit the Refining Division with the market-based transfer price of $23 per barrel of crude oil.
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Learning Objective 8 Construct a general guideline for determining a minimum transfer price.
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Comparison of Methods
Achieves Goal Congruence Market Price: Yes, if markets competitive Cost-Based: Negotiated: Often, but not always Yes
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Comparison of Methods
Useful for Evaluating Subunit Performance Market Price: Yes, if markets competitive Cost-Based: Negotiated: Difficult, unless transfer price exceeds full cost Yes
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Comparison of Methods
Motivates Management Effort Market Price: Yes Cost-Based: Negotiated: Yes, if based on budgeted costs; less incentive if based on actual cost Yes
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Comparison of Methods
Preserves Subunit Autonomy Market Price: Yes, if markets competitive Cost-Based: Negotiated: No, it is rule based Yes
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Comparison of Methods
Other Factors Market Price: No market may exist Cost-Based: Negotiated: Useful for determining full-cost; easy to implement Bargaining takes time and may need to be reviewed
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General Guideline
Minimum transfer price = Incremental costs per unit incurred up to the point of transfer + Opportunity costs per unit to the selling division
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General Guideline
Assume a perfectly competitive market, with no idle capacity. Transportation Division can sell all the crude oil it transports to the external market in Seattle for $23 per barrel. What is the minimum transfer price? ($19 + $4) or ($13 + $2 + $8) = $23 = Market price
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General Guideline
Assume that an intermediate market exists that is not perfectly competitive, and the selling division has idle capacity. If the Transportation Division has idle capacity, its opportunity cost of transferring the oil internally is zero. What is the minimum transfer price?
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General Guideline
It would be $15 per barrel for oil purchased under the long-term contract, or... $19 per barrel for oil purchased and transported from the independent supplier in Alaska.
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IRC Section 482 requires that transfer prices for both tangible and intangible property between a company and its foreign division be set to equal the price that would be charged by an unrelated third party in a comparable transaction.
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End of Chapter 22
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