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Your business has been open for a month, and you have prepared an income statement and completed a variance analysis on the data. Now you will meet with investors and a few other internal stakeholders to share your company's progress over the past month and how it has performed with respect to your cost and budget projections. The investors would like to see the thought process behind your financial strategy and how your company has performed in its first month. They have therefore asked you to present a report that includes the costing and income data.

Submit a detailed report to your potential investors and other stakeholders to explain and defend your costing strategies and to share your business's performance to date. Your report can be in the form of a PowerPoint presentation or a Word document. In either format, be sure to effectively communicate with your stakeholders by breaking down concepts and using investor-friendly language to build their trust and confidence. If you choose to do a PowerPoint presentation, you'll need to include speaker notes for each slide.
1. Introduction: Provide a short overview of your company and the purpose of this report.
A. Business Overview: Name your company and describe its business and your vision for its future.
B. Purpose of the Report: Explain the purpose of the report and describe why the information is important.
C. Methods and Approach: Explain the management accounting methods you used for generating the information that you are about to share in terms of your adherence to industry standards and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) code of ethics.
2. Financial Strategy: Review your original business plan and costing strategies.
A. Costing System: Justify the use of job order costing for this business. Be sure to compare and contrast the various costing systems you learned about in this course as part of your defense.
B. Selling Prices: Share and explain the selling prices you established for each of your products. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.
C. Contribution Margin: Share and explain your contribution margin per unit. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.
D. Target Profits: Identify your break-even points for achieving different target profits. Then explain the target profits you selected for each area of your business. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.
3. Financial Statements: Using the information in the Milestone Two Market Research Data Appendix, assess your financial performance to date.
A. Statement of Cost of Goods Sold: Share the statement of cost of goods sold and logically interpret the business's performance against the provided benchmarks.
B. Income Statement: Share the income statement and logically interpret the business's performance against the provided benchmarks.
C. Variances: Illustrate all variances for the direct labor time and the materials price.
D. Significance of Variances: Evaluate the significance of the variances in terms of the potential to impact future budgeting decisions and planning.

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https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/job-order-costing-system.html
https://chools.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Job-Costing.pdf
https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.05.0495?mobileUi=0
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1174&context=business-facultypubs

Introduction: Provide a short overview of your company and the purpose of this report. Business Overview: Name your company and describe its business and your vision for its future. Purpose of the Report: Explain the purpose of the report and describe why the information is important.

The assistance provided by the expert will be for guidance and provide an example of the potential company that could be used by the student. All of the research articles have been provided and it is the student's responsibility to create their own examples and provide their own words as this is simply guidance and a summary of the scholarly research on the subject.

The company for this summary is a small restaurant that has recently been converted into a restaurant alongside an existing market owned by the same person. The market ownership has decided to start selling deli, bakery, and other other prepared foods to customers in an attempt to increase its customer sales. The restaurant will sell meals that customers can order to pick-up-to-go wherein a variety of different food options will be available for pickup at pre-ordered times for customer's convenience. Once customers have ordered either online or via phone, they simply arrive at designated areas to retrieve their order.

To help ensure that this new restaurant venture at the market succeeds, the example that should be utilized for accounting management is a job order costing form of accounting. This model is effective in focusing on specific orders and prices to analyze whether the business is effectively reaching its customers' in regard to producing profits in accordance to how many sales are made on a daily purchase. This model focuses on each meal and deduces the material costs, labor, and overhead costs. Some examples of material costs that directly impact the restaurant include grain, packaging, meat, etc.

Labor costs that must be accounted for by the restaurant include employee pay while manufacturing overhead would entail hair nets worn by employees who prepare the meals as well as dishwashers who work in the kitchen but don't prepare meals for customers. The objective for the restaurant is to ensure that costs are less than the sales price of its meals, and the job costing accounting method is effective in providing up-to-date information on each meal option to ensure that the company is making a profit.

Each meal will be predicated upon different food items, sizes, and will also be customer-specific, and this is why job order costing is the appropriate model to use as no food order is the same as the last, and therefore, each order will need to analyzed to deduce the specific costs associated with making the meal to ensure that when the meal is sold, a substantive profit is earned by the restaurant.

https://psu.pb.unizin.org/acctg211/chapter/job-order-v-process-costing/
https://biz.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Accounting/Book%3A_Principles_of_Managerial_Accounting_(Jonick)/02%3A_Job_Order_Costing/2.01%3A_Introduction_to_Job_Order_Costing

Methods and Approach: Explain the management accounting methods. you used for generating the information that you are about to share in terms of your adherence to industry standards and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) code of ethics.

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