Cost Accounting, Ethical Accountability, and Accounting Principles

This essay explains why cost accounting, ethical accountability, and accounting principles are interrelated concepts. During the past two decades, the relationship between accounting systems and discharge of accountability has increasingly drawn the attention of researchers. However, researchers have shown a marginal interest in the inclusion and examination of the theme of cost accounting, and in particular, no interest has been oriented to explore the potential role of cost accounting in serving presentation of the trustful cost information as regards the discharge of accountability. In this essay, we will reason that the traditional discourse of cost accounting is fundamentally different from the managerial discourse of cost accounting. The traditional cost accounting is built upon the ethical, legal, professional, and principle-based discourses. By exploring the differences between the two cost accounting discourses, this essay will reduce the effect of current skeptical views with which quality of our academic education, relevance of our research, and our understanding of the potential role of cost accounting in serving the provision and presentation of trustful information have been seriously undermined.

An Investment Cost ,Analysis of Solar Hot Water System Combined with Economizer for Industry

A combination of solar hot water system with the economizer for heating the water that circulates in the hot water storage tank is presented with the objective to reduce and analyze the cost of investment. The solar collector area will be affected to the investment cost of the solar hot water system. A combined system can be reduced the cost of solar collector by using the waste heat from the economizer to produce the hot water for reaching the requirement of the industry. In this paper the economizer installs in the boiler stack of the industry and produces hot water at 60 ℃ of 5,400 liter per day and the solar hot water system produces the hot water at the same temperature of 6,100 liter per day. The analysis is proposed by determining the solar collector plate area from the data and calculation. Investment cost of the system is 151,000 baht for the solar hot water system of 110,000 baht and the economizer of 410,000 baht for producing the total hot water of 115,000 liter per day.

Energy saving analysis for CO_(2)–O_(2)mixed injection technology in converter steelmaking

Energy-saving in China's iron and steel industry still relies on the development and improvement of short-term energy saving technologies.Therefore,a special converter smelting technology incorporating energy saving was proposed.To evaluate the energy-saving potential of the CO_(2)–O_(2)mixed injection(COMI)technology,collected production data were used to develop an improved techno-economic model.Calculations reveal that the technology can save energy through auxiliary material consumption,sensible heat of solid by-product,iron loss reduction,and energy recovery.The application of COMI technology in an enterprise is cost effective,involving the energy saving potential of 0.206 GJ/t,the cost of conserved energy of−48.83 yuan/GJ,and a simple payback period of 0.35 year for a 60-million-yuan investment.Sensitivity analysis shows that the investment cost and discount rate primarily influence the cost of conserved energy of the technology.As the discount rate increased,the cost of conserved energy also gradually increased.Overall,the COMI technology is an energy-saving technology with good development prospects.

Why Marginal Pricing?

Under perfect competition,marginal pricing results in short-term efficiency and the subsequent right short-term price signals.However,the main reason for the adoption of marginal pricing is not the above,but investment cost recovery.That is,the fact that the profits obtained by infra-marginal technologies(technologies whose production cost is below the marginal price)allow them just to recover their investment costs.On the other hand,if the perfect competition assumption is removed,investment over-recovery or under-recovery generally occurs for infra-marginal technologies.