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An Improvement Measures of Maintenance Cost Accounting Standard for Improving Value in Public Buildings (공공건축물의 가치제고를 위한 유지관리비 회계처리기준 개선방안)

  • Cho, Sangouk;Hwang, Jeongha;Lee, Chansik
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.12-20
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    • 2016
  • Along with the change of national accounting, the importance of systematic management of assets is emphasized and the awareness that the concept termed Asset Management should be introduced to the construction field too to manage facilities. The present study is a basic study for the introduction of the concept Asset Management and proposed accounting guidelines(proposal) for public building maintenance cost that can clarify maintenance cost accounting. Existing literatures and current accounting standards were examined and the actual states of maintenance cost accounting of public buildings in A metropolitan city were examined to draw problems. For the practice guidelines(proposal), the types and contents of government office building maintenance expenditures were analyzed and items that must be treated as OPEX and CAPEX were presented. Expert interviews were conducted to verify the reliability of the items presented. The practice guidelines(proposal) were applied to the public buildings in A metropolitan city to identify situations of changes in asset values and review the effects of the practice guidelines(proposal) on increases in asset values. When applied to practices, the practice guidelines(proposal) suggested in the present study are considered to increase building asset values and provide consistent financial information to help stakeholders' decision making.

An Area of Accounting Related to the Management Planning (경영계획(經營計劃)에 관련(關聯)되는 회계(會計)의 영역(領域))

  • Park, Dae-Kyu
    • Korean Business Review
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    • v.4
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    • pp.25-50
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    • 1991
  • A management planning is an index to accomplish the goal of business enterprise and a managing guide of the top manager. It is a top manager's authority with he gives directions at the beginning of the budget year and has something to do with a responsible accounting. If we correlate this management planning with an area of accounting, we can subdivide it into followings; production and marketing schedule, demand-supply program of raw material, demand-supply program of the personnel and lobor cost program, facility investment program, balance fund program, profit and loss, and financial position program. I think, in the field of accounting for the sake of the management planning, there are motivation accounting, responsible accounting, divisional system accounting, evaluating accounting and so on. A management planning should be accomplishe and as it is accomplished, a business is going to be grown up and developed. Especially, it must be set up on the ground of the long-term strategies. When the accomplishment through the management planning, which is a social responibility that all the business enterprise are seeking after, is attained, it makes the development of business possible and we cannot dent that it is closely connected with the national economic development.

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A cost model for determining optimal audit timing with related considerations for accounting data quality enhancement

  • Kim, Kisu
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.129-146
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    • 1995
  • As society's relience on computerized information systems to support a wide range of activities proliferates, the long recognized importance for adequate data quality becomes imperative. Furthermore, current trends in information systems such as dispersal of the data resource together with its management have increased the difficulty of maintaining suitable levels of data integrity. Especially, the importance of adequate accounting (transaction) data quality has been long recognized and many procedures (extensive and often elaborate checks and controls) to prevent errors in accounting systems have been introduced and developed. Nevertheless, over time, even in the best maintained systems, deficiencies in stored data will develop. In order to maintain the accuracy and reliability of accounting data at certain level, periodic internal checks and error corrections (internal audits) are required as a part of internal control system. In this paper we develop a general data quality degradation (error accumulation ) and cost model for an account in which we have both error occurrences and error amounts and provide a closed form of optimal audit timing in terms of the number of transactions that should occur before an internal audit should be initiated. This paper also considers the cost- effectiveness of various audit types and different error prevention efforts and suggests how to select the most economical audit type and error prevention method.

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An Improved Cost Management Method for ERP System (ERP시스템의 원가 운영 개선 방안)

  • Ahn, Min-Sub;Park, Dong-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.795-802
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    • 2010
  • Currently, the business environment has been rapidly changed due to the fast globalization and development of information technology. Therefore, many companies are trying to change their management system by improving their own decision making systems and innovations. Many domestic enterprises are introducing or considering the ERP system. In the field of ERP management accounting, there are many auxiliary functions for helping efficient internal management analysis for company. In this paper, we proposed and developed an improved method for minimize the variance between standard cost and actual cost of materials of the company. In this method we proposed efficient ERP cost management system considering current cost component including currency and actual material cost and overhead costs.

Study on the Model Construction and Route Re-arrange for Logistics Cost Reduction - Case Study of P company - (물류원가절감을 위한 모델구축과 경로 재설치에 관한 연구 - p사의 사례연구를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Jeong-Eun;Park, Sang-Bong
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2014
  • In order that a company may reduce expense, according to companies' income statement, the largest amount of money is set to total sales amount, and the next is the sales cost. The method of reducing the sales cost is the common and it is important to take down a unit price at the time of purchase, or to reduce inventory cost. In this research, the cost reduction model for logistics cost reduction is built using the real data of P company, and in order to verify the validity of a model, logistics cost is calculated through a simulation. A real logistics cost is compared with the logistics cost through logistics route rearrange of the proposal model. It will become an opportunity which analyzes the logistics expense of P company through this research, and can be solved in search of the problem of logistics system.

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A Study on the Role of the Accounting Dept. in General Hospitals Centered on General Hospitals with more than 300 beds (종합병원 경리부서의 역할에 관한 연구 - 300병상 이상의 종합병원 중심 -)

  • Lee, Hak-Bong;Kim, Seung-Baum;Jung, Kee-Sun;Kim, Young-Bae
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.43-58
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    • 2010
  • For this study, general hospitals with more than 300 beds are investigated. To provide basic data for efficient management of hospitals and to encourage the staff of the accounting dept. Who understand the detailed situation to take part in making decisions concerning management actively, the role of the accounting dept. through the use of the control counting on the detailed tasks and analysis of cost price and the accountants' opinion about it.

The Impact of Sales and Management Expenses on Firm Value (기업특성에 따른 판매관리비가 기업 가치에 미치는 영향)

  • Son, Jeong-Guen;Bae, Khee-Su
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.71-84
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to extract the characteristic cost through the time series analysis of each cost from 2003 to 2014, and to grasp the performance and relevance of the enterprise. Therefore, in this section, we analyzed the time-series analysis of selling, administrative, and non-operating expenses as described above. First, depreciation cost, advertising cost, transportation cost, research cost, current research cost, and ordinary development cost were extracted as the variables of interest to be verified in the empirical analysis. However, in the analysis of non-operating expenses, we could not extract the specific cost, but we could grasp the time-series flow of cost data before and after two epochs such as financial crisis and introduction of IFRS obligation. The results of this study show that sales management costs have a positive (+) effect on firm value. Empirical analysis confirms that management is trying to increase or decrease the cost This can be confirmed by the empirical results of this paper. At present, general enterprise accounting is done through ERP system. However, since the ERP system does not have an analysis system for each sales and management cost, the current system has difficulty in knowing the budget item for each cost each time the expenditure resolution for each cost item is made, It is a reality that the expenditure plan must be managed separately and it is inconvenient to keep it. However, if this practical difficulty is solved by the cost analysis system such as sales management cost, the present accounting information system will be further developed. Furthermore, the management will increase the profit item It is thought that coordination actions can also be prevented in advance.

Cost Management of Ecotourism Programs: A Case Study of the Community Enterprises in Thailand

  • DUNGTRIPOP, Wilawan;SRISUWAN, Praphada
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.181-193
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    • 2021
  • Thailand's tourism industry contributed to over three trillion baht in 2019. Tourist attractions across Thailand attract tourists around the world with their natural scenery, lifestyles, and cultures, especially in those called "second-tier cities". Community enterprises play a vital role to drive the tourism industry to local areas. However, most community enterprises lack professional accounting knowledge. This research aims to provide guidelines for ecotourism cost management of community enterprises in Thailand. Participatory Action Research (PAR) was employed to investigate the current circumstances of the Banlaem enterprise by using in-depth interviews to identify problems in cost management. Then, the focus and small group meetings were organized to monitor and evaluate solutions. The results reveal that the cost of VIP-Two Days trip was generating the highest net profit and margin, followed by VIP-One Day trip, but net losses were detected on the Students-One Day trip, even though income was greater than the variable costs, revenues didn't cover fixed costs. Thus, accounting knowledge could be a major concern of these enterprises. They should systematically record revenues and expenses, set appropriate labor costs, reduce production costs by using seasonal seafood and make use of vegetables in their gardens, and price products according to their production costs.

Conceptual Framework and Evaluation of Current Cost Accounting (현행원가회계의 개념구조와 평가)

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    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.229-238
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    • 1998
  • Current cost income is composed of current operating profit and holding gains. There is two viewpoints about the nature of current cost changes: earnings and capital adjustments. The former is based on the financial capital maintenance concept, while the latter is based on the physical capital maintenance concept. Proponents of current cost accounting are convinced that it provides more useful information than conventional accounting. Advocates of financial capital believe that current cost information is needed for management to evaluate their past decisions, and thereby be able to improve their decision-making ability. Defenders of historical cost point out that current cost accounting violates the traditional revenue recognition principle by recognising increases in the value of assets before sales.

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Development of the Model for Activity Based Costing in the Hospital (의료기관의 활동기준원가 산출 모형)

  • Chun, Ki-Hong;Cho, Woo-Hyun;Kim, Bo-Kyung;Kim, Byung-Cho
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.37-69
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    • 2001
  • A new cost management system, called Activity Based Costing (ABC) system, has arisen to solve the limitation of a Traditional Cost Accounting (TCA) system until last two decades and ABC has been applied by many companies. TCA systems have limitation in tracing cost because they arbitrarily allocate overhead cost to the cost objects without standard for direct cost distribution. ABC is an accounting system that assigns costs to products or services based on the resources they consume. The costs of all activities are traced to the products for which they are performed. Therefore ABC is a cost management system that provides a matrix to accurately quantify consumed resources triggered by activities and activities triggered by products and services. There is little implementation of ABC in the health services field, one of service industries, due to complicated and many activities, and volatile cost object. However, the necessity for applying reasonable cost accounting system is largely issuing as strategy responding hostile environment, and financial pressure, and it is imperative to implement the Activity Based Costing (ABC) system. Therefore, this study presents the framework to develop ABC system for total health service organizations. Cost objects in this study base on medical service activities per health insurance claim from one general hospital located in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Medical service activities include all health insurance claims in the hospital. The purpose of the study is presenting useful tools and basic frame to develop Activity Based Costing system for health service organizations which want to use ABC system. The steps to develop ABC system for health service organizations are following: 1. Identifying of activity centers; 2. Definition of cost objects and activity by activity center; 3. Analysis of activity and tracing activity contribution; 4. Allocation of direct cost for specific activity; 5. Allocation of indirect cost for specific activity; 6. Allocation of depreciation for facilities, applicants, and consumption goods; 7. Allocation of administration cost; 8. Allocation of cost among activity centers; and 9. Tracing cost of cost objects by activity center. This study identified necessary information from existing reports which hospitals generally made by each step, and defined outcome which had to be produced in each step using this information. The steps of this study had limitation to apply all different size hospitals because the steps were structured ABC system by one hospital, however, this study used similar basic framework and methods with general cases. When a health service organization want to apply Activity Based Costing (ABC) system on all activities of it in future days, this study is very useful to design system structure in the health service organization.

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