Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University / Accounting as a profession has made outstanding progress up through the mid-years of the century. Notwithstanding that it has grown from historical record-keeping to a functional position indispensable in the conduct of business, today1s era of accelerated technological achievement and industrial expansion places continued challenging demands for accounting research leading to still more valuable contributions. An examination of accounting association, publications provides ample evidence of professional interest in such research. From the matrix of accounting self appraisal, dissatisfaction, investigation and trial, there have been many business oriented concepts or techniques generated which have found their way into acceptable accounting procedure. One that is in such transition today is direct costing. In past years accounting techniques have become increasingly complex, obscuring simple cost, volume, and profit relationships. Meanwhile, the tremendous technological strides in industry have resulted in the placement of many engineers, scientists, and other non-financially trained persons in top management positions. As a result of these trends, many of today 1s executives do not fully understand accounting methods and the resultant information which comprise some of their tools for decision-making. The need exists for accounting systems which are simple and show fundamental relationships readily. Direct costing fulfills these requirements.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-102).

The purpose of this study was to conduct an in-depth examination of factors associated with instructional cost variations among the academic units of a private, Mexican university, the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). The study also sought to understand the differences between this university's income and expenditure patterns and those of most comparable institutions in the United States. The analysis enabled the University to identify where it may be more efficient and, in what may turn out to be of most significance, provided it with a higher level of institutional self-awareness. The framework for this study utilized the concepts of the production function and cost theory, both borrowed from microeconomics. Three measures of instructional costs (cost per student-credit-hour, cost per full-time-student-equivalent, and cost per course) were regressed on a series of independent variables that were hypothesized to influence instructional costs. The study utilized the data classification and coding procedures developed by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS). Differences in unit instructional costs among UDEM's academic units were largely due to differences in student-faculty ratios, average class sizes, and total number of courses taught (direct costs), and average salaries for clerical and administrative staff (indirect costs). These findings imply that UDEM may increase efficiency through curricular retrenchment and by increasing faculty productivity levels. The University's enrollment (2,300 at the university level) is very small for its broad liberal arts, professional and graduate curriculum. In comparing UDEM's income and expenditure patterns to those of most comparable U.S. institutions, it was found that UDEM depended more heavily on tuition and fees for income and, as such, either had not pursued or not been successful in obtaining other revenue. Yet, the University was able to devote a larger share of its revenue to instruction than were comparable U.S. institutions. In addition, UDEM provided relatively more support to its academic support function while rendering few resources for scholarships and fellowships. These results suggest that UDEM might benefit greatly from a well-designed fund-raising effort and that a student aid program targeted on low income students could yield additional income while expanding student opportunity and building public relations.

This thesis is designed to emphasize and illustrate that marginal costing is a tool of management that can make clear the how, when, why, and wherefor of the price determining affect and its results.

Esta pesquisa aborda as conflitantes diferenças entre os diversos métodos de custeio apresentados pela literatura em contabilidade gerencial e gestão da produção, destacando a questão dos conflitos de entendimento que são gerados entre o mundo da contabilidade financeira e o mundo da gestão de produção, visto que geralmente os números apresentados e analisados por ambas se mostram discrepantes. Tais conflitos podem muitas vezes ocasionar uma má gestão, com reflexos muitas vezes em decisões de curto prazo inadequadas. A pesquisa tem como objetivo principal integrar o método gerencial de custeio variável à demonstração financeira sem prejudicar os resultados agregados; propõe-se para tanto a utilização de um modelo híbrido de análise econômico-financeira que apresenta ao mesmo tempo os resultados determinados pelos critérios gerenciais do custeio variável e os resultados apresentados pela contabilidade financeira baseada no método do custeio por absorção. Como objetivos secundários, busca-se evidenciar os aspectos teóricos que definem os conflitos e limites que permeiam o tema custos quando colocados sob as perspectivas financeira e gerencial e pesquisar a literatura especializada sobre os métodos de custeio, identificando suas principais diferenças. É, portanto efetuada uma revisão geral da literatura relacionada a sistemas, métodos e artefatos de custeio e gestão econômica da produção a fim de proporcionar um quadro geral que delineie o contexto mencionado, incluindo, mas não se limitando, às questões normativas que permeiam o tema. A pesquisa é construída e baseada em um estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa, onde se busca capturar, além da questão das diferenças numéricas, as nuances de gestão e compreensão de resultados vivenciados por uma empresa real. Proporciona-se uma visão integrada do processo de custeio que traz visibilidade tanto à tomada de decisão gerencial, quanto aos impactos causados nos resultados agregados finais apresentados pela contabilidade financeira. / This research deals with the conflicting differences among the diverse costing methods presented by the literature in management accounting and production management, focusing on the question of the understanding conflicts which are created between the accounting world and the production management world since the figures presented and analyzed by both are usually disparate. Such conflicts may sometimes drive to a poor management, with reflex many times in inadequate short term decision making. The research has as main objective to integrate the management method of variable costing to the financial statement without impairing the aggregated results. It is proposed for it the utilization of a hybrid model of analysis that presents at the same time the results determined from management criteria of direct costing and the results determined from the financial accounting, based on absorption costing. As secondary objectives it pursues to evidence the theoretical aspects that define the conflicts and limits which permeate the costing topic when put under the management accounting and the financial accounting perspectives and to raise specialized literature about costing methods, identifying their main differences. Thus, it is performed a general revision on the literature related to systems, methods and tools for costing and economic production management, aiming at providing a general framework that delineates the mentioned context, including, but not limiting to, the questions that permeate the subject. The research is constructed and based on a case study with qualitative approach, where it seeks to capture, besides the numeric differences question, the nuances of managing and understanding the results experienced by a real company. It provides an integrated view of the costing process that enlightens both the management decision making and the impacts caused in final aggregated results from financial accounting.

Esta pesquisa aborda as conflitantes diferenças entre os diversos métodos de custeio apresentados pela literatura em contabilidade gerencial e gestão da produção, destacando a questão dos conflitos de entendimento que são gerados entre o mundo da contabilidade financeira e o mundo da gestão de produção, visto que geralmente os números apresentados e analisados por ambas se mostram discrepantes. Tais conflitos podem muitas vezes ocasionar uma má gestão, com reflexos muitas vezes em decisões de curto prazo inadequadas. A pesquisa tem como objetivo principal integrar o método gerencial de custeio variável à demonstração financeira sem prejudicar os resultados agregados; propõe-se para tanto a utilização de um modelo híbrido de análise econômico-financeira que apresenta ao mesmo tempo os resultados determinados pelos critérios gerenciais do custeio variável e os resultados apresentados pela contabilidade financeira baseada no método do custeio por absorção. Como objetivos secundários, busca-se evidenciar os aspectos teóricos que definem os conflitos e limites que permeiam o tema custos quando colocados sob as perspectivas financeira e gerencial e pesquisar a literatura especializada sobre os métodos de custeio, identificando suas principais diferenças. É, portanto efetuada uma revisão geral da literatura relacionada a sistemas, métodos e artefatos de custeio e gestão econômica da produção a fim de proporcionar um quadro geral que delineie o contexto mencionado, incluindo, mas não se limitando, às questões normativas que permeiam o tema. A pesquisa é construída e baseada em um estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa, onde se busca capturar, além da questão das diferenças numéricas, as nuances de gestão e compreensão de resultados vivenciados por uma empresa real. Proporciona-se uma visão integrada do processo de custeio que traz visibilidade tanto à tomada de decisão gerencial, quanto aos impactos causados nos resultados agregados finais apresentados pela contabilidade financeira. / This research deals with the conflicting differences among the diverse costing methods presented by the literature in management accounting and production management, focusing on the question of the understanding conflicts which are created between the accounting world and the production management world since the figures presented and analyzed by both are usually disparate. Such conflicts may sometimes drive to a poor management, with reflex many times in inadequate short term decision making. The research has as main objective to integrate the management method of variable costing to the financial statement without impairing the aggregated results. It is proposed for it the utilization of a hybrid model of analysis that presents at the same time the results determined from management criteria of direct costing and the results determined from the financial accounting, based on absorption costing. As secondary objectives it pursues to evidence the theoretical aspects that define the conflicts and limits which permeate the costing topic when put under the management accounting and the financial accounting perspectives and to raise specialized literature about costing methods, identifying their main differences. Thus, it is performed a general revision on the literature related to systems, methods and tools for costing and economic production management, aiming at providing a general framework that delineates the mentioned context, including, but not limiting to, the questions that permeate the subject. The research is constructed and based on a case study with qualitative approach, where it seeks to capture, besides the numeric differences question, the nuances of managing and understanding the results experienced by a real company. It provides an integrated view of the costing process that enlightens both the management decision making and the impacts caused in final aggregated results from financial accounting.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T19:13:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 29 / Nenhuma / Este estudo objetiva analisar a mensuração de custos, os resultados por projetos e os efeitos no modelo de gestão através do método de custeio direto comparado com o atual método de custeio utilizado na empresa estudada, neste caso o método de custeio por absorção. Para atender o objetivo, foram analisados 108 projetos realizados na empresa que serviu de base da pesquisa. Os resultados apurados de cada projeto foram classificados em quatro classes de projetos, conforme as características de cada equipamento. As comparações da mensuração dos custos foram apresentadas através de demonstrações de resultados por classe de projeto entre os dois métodos de custeio. Na análise dos resultados foi verificado, principalmente, o efeito destes no gerenciamento da empresa. Assim, o estudo classifica-se como uma pesquisa aplicada e quantitativa em relação ao tratamento dos dados dos projetos. O método hipotético-dedutivo empregado neste estudo, é em função das conjecturas testadas, ou seja, os métodos de custeio. Nas comp / This study aims to analyze the model of cost measuring, results and effects on the management model through the direct-costing method compared to the current costing method used in the studied company that is the absorption-costing method. In order to reach the target, one hundred and eight projects, carried out in the company, were analyzed. The results from each project were classified in four classes of projects, according to each equipment features. The comparisons of cost measuring were shown through income statements by class of project between the two costing methods, and by analyzing the results, it was possible to check mainly their effects on the company management. Thus, the study is classified as an applicable and quantitative research considering the data of the projects. The hypothetical-deductive method was used, because of the tested conjectures, or rather saying, the costing methods. Statistical analyses were also used in the comparisons, such as the regression analysis to help with the incom

This dissertation aims to study the behavior of intermediaries under market imperfections and the consequences of that for the financial market's functioning. To do so, I focus on two classes of market frictions: funding constraints and information asymmetry. Chapter 1 studies how the dealers' capital constraints affect the market liquidity in the presence of imperfect competition and how recent regulations have shifted the competitive landscape of interest rate swaps. On the subject of informational frictions, Chapters 2 and 3 study empirically and theoretically the pace at which prices incorporate private information under the limited learning capacity of the informed traders. Understanding the microstructure of the swap markets is of interest to both policymakers and academics, especially for it helps in the efficient implementation of post-crisis regulations, namely the Dodd-Frank Act. An understudied dimension of the swap market microstructure is the determinants of the cost of the market-making activity. Using a proprietary regulatory dataset collected by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on both the interest rate swap transactions and the collateral requirements at the London Clearinghouse (LCH), in Chapter 1, I study the key balance sheet constraints that affect the ability of the bank-affiliated dealers to provide intermediation service to the end-users. Most of the interest rate swaps are now mandated to be centrally cleared. This has increased the dealer's need for collateral in the form of highly liquid assets (cash and cash equivalents) to back their swap exposures. Facing capital adequacy measures such as Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR), dealers find it even costlier to increase the size of their balance sheet to fund these margins. I show that a 1-percentage point increase in SLR leads to an increase of 1.09 percentage points in the bank's cost of capital per unit of margin requirement. Furthermore, I find the funding spread of the dealers (the difference between the cost of external funding and the risk-free rate) is also a relevant factor for determining the dealer's marginal cost of swap transaction; a cost that is evidently transferred to the end-users in the form of less favorable prices. Measuring the cost of intermediation for the dealer-to-client interest rate swap market is challenging because of the high concentration in the market-- the first seven dealers intermediate more than 50% of the total notional traded. Therefore, one must consider the nontrivial effect of markups in transaction prices to estimate the marginal cost of intermediation reliably. For this reason, I model a differentiated product demand for swaps in the spirit of empirical Industrial Organization (IO) literature and structurally estimate this model to account for the markups in the transaction prices using estimated price elasticities. The demand estimations show economically interpretable heterogeneity among the end-users in their taste for duration risk hedging. The structurally estimated equilibrium model of intermediation can serve as a basis for answering counterfactual policy questions, especially in the debate on the social costs and benefits of excluding initial margins in calculating supplementary leverage ratio. In Chapter 2, I turn the focus to the impact of informational frictions on market-making activity. More specifically, we study the informed trading under random stopping time. Empirical evidence is provided based on an episode of time when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unintentionally disclosed security filings to some investors before the public for several years. For technological reasons, the delay between the private and public disclosure was exogenously random. We exploit the variation in the time window of private information to show the intensity of trades and the speed at which market prices reach their efficiency, decrease with the expected arrival time of public announcement. In addition, we find the learning capacity of the insider determines the evolution of trading intensity over time. In Chapter 3, inspired by the stylized facts observed in the earlier chapter, I extend the Kyle (1985) model of strategic trading to a case with limited learning capacity of both the dealers and the informed traders (insiders). The insider does not perfectly observe the true value of the security, but he continues to hone his knowledge by using private information sources over time. Two classes of equilibria emerge from this model. In one class, the insider trades excessively patiently, and the market efficiency is reached only asymptotically. In the second type, the insider optimally chooses a deterministic time T, before which he trades patiently as in Kyle (1985) until the price reaches its full efficiency. After T, the insider keeps revealing every piece of new information immediately, and the market price stays efficient while the insider keeps making profits. Which equilibrium emerges depends on the insider's learning capacity, initial informational advantage, and the private source's informational content.