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Free Essays | Accounting Essay - ABC Traditional Costing
I. Introduction
Multiple objectives are pursued in this paper. The first objective is to discuss and compare traditional cost accounting methods and activity-based costing methods. The second objective is to determine the extent to which activity-based costing methods are used in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The third objective is to determine why some organizations in the UAE continue to use traditional cost accounting methods. The fourth objective is to develop a recommended strategy to increase the use of activity-based costing in the UAE.
II. Traditional Methods of Costing
The traditional costing model includes six elements. These elements are as follows (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007):
- For product-costing purposes, a company is separated into functional areas of activity - manufacturing, marketing, financing, and administration
- Manufacturing costs of direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead are subject to inventory costs
- Direct materiel and direct labor costs are considered to be traceable directly to specific products
- Manufacturing overhead costs are treated as indirect product costs, and they are charged to specific products at predetermined overhead rates
- When a single, company-wide, predetermined overhead rate is used, overhead is charged to all products with no consideration for differences in resource use
- The functional costs of marketing, financing, and administration are accumulated in cost pools, and they are applied in the period in which they are incurred; these costs are not treated as product costs nor are they related to specific products in product profitability comparisons
Full costing (absorption costing or activity-based costing) considers all costs to be product costs. Thus, all overhead costs are allocated to costs of production for specific products. Traditional costing, by contrast, includes only the costs for those factors that change with the production of an additional unit of good or service.
In the variable costing approach, all overhead costs are not allocated to costs of production for specific products. Although activity-based costing (ABC) has gained widespread acceptance, some disagreement continues to exist with respect to the merits of each of these approaches to costing for purposes of control and decision-making within organizations (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
In an ABC system, overhead costs are attached to units of product at the time of production. Overhead, therefore, becomes a part of costs of good sold when units of production are sold. Under an ABC system, all costs are classified according to their functional categories, or activities (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
In a traditional costing (marginal costing) system, however, overhead is recognized as an expense in the reporting period in which such expense is incurred. These overhead expenses do not become a part of cost of goods sold at any time. Under a variable costing system, costs are classified according to cost behavior, i.e., fixed costs or variable costs.
Fixed costs are those costs that will be incurred by the organization regardless of production levels while variable costs are those costs that are only incurred as additional product units [goods or services] are created (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
ABC systems can lead to sub-optimal managerial decisions in some instances when the true timing of cost expenditures is not reflected in the decision-making process. The application of traditional costing (marginal costing) methods to conduct a breakeven analysis, however, can overcomes the timing problem. Thus, this issue is one advantage of the traditional costing approach (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
III. Activity-Based Costing
An advantage associated the ABC system, however, is that the true costs of specific products are more accurately reflected because production overhead is allocated across all product categories. A major goal of an ABC system is the development of a costing system that also can function as a management tool by providing timely and accurate measurements of resource use (what, how, where, when, and cost). The ABC system is intended to provide more accurate measures of the resources used by each product.
Further, an ABC system also may be used to develop product component and part level data to enhance the detail and value of cost information. This capability of the ABC system satisfies the concerns associated with the price-setting mechanisms within an organization by providing more reliable product cost information (Sale, 2007).
Another objective of the ABC system is to make the costing system more useful and relevant for design and production departments within companies. These departments tend to be more interested in identifying the cost of alternatives and opportunities for cost reduction and permanent savings (Sale, 2007).
ABC systems are supportive of the process of management. Some companies use their activity-based cost information in their product pricing decisions. This practice increases the probability that revenues will exceed the costs of resources used in production. Activity-based costing models also can be used by managers to reduce resource use while holding revenues constant. When resource use is lowered, unused capacity is created. The unused capacity can then be eliminated or used in other production.
Resource use can be lowered by educing the number of times activities are performed, or resource use can be lowered by increasing the efficiency with which activities are performed. Through a combination of reducing the quantity of activities performed and increasing the efficiency of performing the remaining activities, companies can maintain production levels and revenues while reducing resource demand (Sale, 2007).
The ABC model has two dimensions. The first dimension is cost. The costdimension includes cost information about resources, activities, and cost objects. This dimension supports economic evaluations of the strategy and operations of a company. The second dimension is process. The processdimension includes performance information about the work of the company. This information supports judgments about why work is performed and how well it is performed. The process dimension brings organizational operations directly into the cost system (Sale, 2007).
Activity-based costing, thus, is defined as a methodology that measures the cost and performance of activities, resources, and cost objects. Resources are assigned to activities, then activities are assigned to cost objects based on their use.
Activity-based costing recognizes the causal relationship between (a) cost drivers and (b) activities. This definition includes a wide range of cost and performance information. An ABC model based on this definition has two main perspectives that are companion concepts to the two dimensions discussed above. The first perspective is cost assignment. This perspective reflects the need that companies have to (a) assign costs to activities and cost objects, and (b) to analyze critical decisions. These decisions involve issues such as the following (Sale, 2007):
- Pricing
- Product mix
- Product design
- Setting priorities for improvement
The cost assignment perspective identifies the significant activities of a company, and it attaches costs to each activity. This perspective also assigns costs to the cost objects that rely on the activities. Knowing the cost of activities makes it easier to understand the how, why, and when of resource use within a company (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
The second perspective of the ABC model is the processperspective. The process perspective reflects the need that companies have for a new category of information, which is information about the drivers of work within a company, as well as information on the effectiveness and the efficiency of the work. Managers use such information to devise strategies and methods (a) to improve performance and (b) to increase the value of products to customers (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
IV. Comparison of ABC Methods and Traditional Methods
The ABC system recognizes that costs originate from and that they increase or decrease in response to factors other than production volume and direct labor input, which are the primary considerations in traditional cost accounting. According to the proponents of the ABC system, the other factors or activities considered in the ABC approach are better indicators of product costs than are the outcomes of traditional cost accounting procedures. ABC systems assign costs to products based on their consumption of activities, such as order preparation, storage time, wait time, engineering changes, and internal product movement.
As a result, the ABC system provides companies with (a) better product costs and (b) a better understanding of the effects of product pricing and product mix decisions on profitability (Sale, 2007).
ABC systems estimate the cost of the resources used in company processes to produce outputs — goods or services. While attempts are made to interpret activity-based costs within the context of the traditional fixed versus variable cost framework, this approach is inconsistent with an activity-based cost system's measurements of resource use costs. The fixed versus variable cost classification attempts to classify the likely change in spending or supply of a resource. Measurement of unused capacity through the application of the ABC model provides the necessary link between the cost of resources used and the cost of resources supplied (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
The ABC resource use cost information can be used by managers to monitor and predict the (a) changes in demand for activities as a function of (b) changes in output volume and mix, process changes, introduction of new technology, and changes in product/process design.
Further, based on planned change, managers can predict resource shortages or excesses of capacity.Such predictions will allow managers to modify decisions so that activity demand will balance with activity supply (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
ABC systems use separate activity cost drivers for each activity. Activity cost drivers are not devices to allocate costs. Rather, such cost drivers represent the demand that output requirements place on each activity.
Because traditional cost systems use allocation bases that do not represent the demands for support resources by activities, the volume variance for a period can be zero even though in actual practice under or over capacity may develop in the production processes (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
Activity-based cost analysis is used in conjunction with process improvements. By measuring the costs of business processes such as (a) purchasing, (b) sales, (c) materials management, and (d) other activities, companies develop a greater understanding of the true costs of production (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
The arguments favoring the ABC system are supported by the recognized deficiencies of the traditional costing approach based on fixed costs and variable costs.
The advantage of the ABC system over traditional costing is comprised of (a) the combination of higher levels of accuracy in cost allocation and, (b) the higher correlation between costs and revenues (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
V. Awareness of ABC methods in the UAE
There is a strong awareness the ABC system among accounting firms and among companies in the United Arab Emirates. This statement is supported by a search of the Internet that reveals that,
- A large number of accounting firms that are located in the UAE offer ABC system-related services
- A large number of production companies that are located in the UAE are advertising internal accounting vacancies that require (among other qualifications) ABC system skills
- Universities that are located in the UAE offer courses of study that focus on ABC system skills
Some companies that are located in the UAE, however, continue to rely on traditional costing methods.
While activity-based costing is the most appropriate basis for allocating costs to products and segments and results in a more accurate measurement of resources consumed by a particular product, service, or business segment, there nevertheless must be questions and issues that cause some companies to stick with traditional costing methods. The UAE has adopted many of the standards promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which recognizes the ABC system. Thus, prevailing standards do not provide an answer to the question.
One argument put forward is that the ABC system does not effectively incorporate the concept of attributable-cost. An attributable-cost refers to any cost that could be eliminated if a particular activity were discontinued. Attributable costs would include all costs, whether fixed or variable, associated directly with the particular activity and the activity's share of allocated costs that could be eliminated if the affected activity were to be discontinued.
The costs incurred by a company, however, do not change with activity-based costing. The ABC system changes the allocation of costs, not the character or class of costs. The status of costs as attributable or non-attributable is changed by ABS system allocation (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
Ahmed and Karim (1995) reported that the Financial Accounting Organization for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (FAOIBFI) issued Financial Accounting Statement No. 2: Concepts of Financial Accounting for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions in 1993 that requires Islamic banks to use traditional cost accounting methods. The FAOIBFI statements do not apply directly to other types of companies, but it is possible that some Islamic banks insist that the companies with which they participate also observe this requirement. It is equally probable that many companies continue to rely on traditional costing methods because no one has persuaded them that it would be beneficial for them to change to the ABC system.
VI. Conclusion
Proponents of activity-based costing have challenged the idea that full absorption costs are inappropriate for managerial decision making.
ABC proponents contend that all costs are variable in the long-run and thus subject to management action.A further argument is that the problem has not been the concept of full cost but, rather, the methods used to allocate costs to a particular cost object. Better measurements of resources consumed are achieved, according to this argument, through correctly identifying the factors that cause a particular cost to change and use these cost drivers as our allocation base.
According to the arguments of ABC proponents, the ABC approach, thus, should be applicable to any segment analysis (Garrison, Noreen, & Brewer, 2007).
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (2005) in the UAE has issued cost accounting guidelines that require (a) adherence to the principle of cost causality and (b) the direct attribution of costs where possible. Thus, it is recommended that industry associations in the UAE take the lead in promoting the application of the ABC system by emulating the action of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority.

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1/4 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
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Friday, July 13, 2012
A teaware rescue
12 comments:
- parTea lady said...
It's nice to be a rescuer. Those salt and peppers will look very pretty on your tea tree.
- July 13, 2012 at 8:55 AM
- Joy said...
What a nice rescue find! Those plates will be gorgeous in a tiered rack, and the salt and peppers will make great ornaments.
- July 13, 2012 at 9:59 AM
- Michele @ The Nest at Finch Rest said...
If you take firm paper or alum foil and make a tiny cone you can put your salt and pepper in those - and if you whittle a wine cork down you can make your own stoppers so they're usable.
I love free china. What fun.
- July 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- Bernideen said...
Lovely pieces which could easily be blended with others!
- July 13, 2012 at 11:17 AM
very pretty find
- July 13, 2012 at 12:17 PM
- Deb said...
Very different. I like the little tea-cup and saucer.
- July 13, 2012 at 3:48 PM
What a pretty set, Angela - I love the fact that they are footed. And I'm glad they were 'rescued' by someone who will appreciate them and give them a great home. Joanie
- July 13, 2012 at 4:46 PM
- Rosemary said...
Love your imagination! Hillary Clinton!
- July 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM
- Ginger said...
What an interesting set.
- July 13, 2012 at 10:44 PM
- Kaye said...
Love the little feet on these. What a shame it would have been if these were trashed. Good of you to rescue them!
- July 14, 2012 at 7:53 AM
- The Teaist / De Theeist said...
Yay free china! And it's cute in a slightly frilly way :)
Am surprised to see salt and pepper shakers at a tea service!
Rescuing china is wonderful. I recently rescued two cute, gilded cups and saucers. Ought to blog them sometime :)
- July 14, 2012 at 5:27 PM
- Marilyn said...
With the gold on them they actually look sort of dressy and fun. Christmas would be a lovely time to use everything here. Have fun! Like your imagination here.
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The day after Mother's Day, a Phoenix mom has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of her 6-day-old baby girl, Maya.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 36-year-old Nina Koistinen admitted to smothering the baby girl last month because she "had too many kids already. ... More >>
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London, May 20 - Actor Jackie Chan is ready to bow out of action movies so he can show off his acting skills.
The 58-year-old is eager to ease into more dramatic parts, admitting he's getting too old for rigorous action shoots.
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^^after all the hand-holding plus diyaaa music thats been driving me crazy - I finally really enjoyed a SurYa scene...
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Since we got alot of funny& sum hilarious scenea this week all cuz of Singapore track, so it was really tough to choose one funny scene ! But thinking alot the funny scene have to be the where Meena's Laddu gets destryedpoor meenudibechari ek laddu baccha tha..then the whole chase scene was quite funny & great to see meenudi's laddu destryed & chasing sum baadmash strret kids..she totally deserved it...Meena & Chhotu's expressions were
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Beendini, apna koon na jala. Vo Suraj ko seat ka patta kursi se baandh rahi hai. Apne haath mein baandh kar keech na kar thaare beendh ne. Samji.
Meaning: Daughter-in-law, don't get tensed. She is helping Suraj to fasten the seat belt to the chair. She is not tying to her hand and taking him away. Understood!!
Lat dialogue in last week's last episode. Bhabho saw Sandhya getting jealous on seeing Air Hostess helping Suraj. She understood what is running in Sandy's mind and spoke these golden words.
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Suraj ji, maanthi hun ki aapki pariksha shuru hone se pehle dus number ka sawal galath ho gaya . Par abhi nabe number ka pariksha tho bakhi hai na ? Mujhe vishwaas hai, aap is pariksha main bhi ache number se paas honge .
Meaning: Suraj ji, I accept that even before you start the exam 10 questions have gone wrong. But still you have 90 questions left over. I trust you that you will clear the exam with flying colors.
This is my favorite scene of the week . Sandhya repeated the words said by Suraj to build up his confidence. I just loved the smile on Suraj's face on reading it .
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In the rain of filler episodes, again we are bestowed with some subtle and beautiful ones this week. After her father passed away, it was him who brought rays of hope to her life. He has lit a small, but everlasting flame inside her, what made her step forward everytime she felt being beaten down. She was new to the circumstances of married life. He held held her hand in his and stepped along with her. Now he came out of his innocent world to a totally new and opposite world where he is afraid ofdifficulties, losing his path, finding no hope, crossing competitive circumstances. There she unconditionally returns him what he gave her once. She has lit his inner being with the same spark he left in her. She is his hope, his light, his inspiration and his assurance whenever he finds himself down. She is his breeze, stars and moon.And he saw the unconditional love and support that she had denied him once, in her eyes. He was enjoying the feeling of being secured under the shades of her love...dhup mein chaya banke chalenge... And it was that moment (DBC moment) when he has lost in her soulful eyes after he read the same words what he had once scribbled for her. It was then he assured himself again they are truly diya aur baati and they will shine together forever, in each other's love, making each other smile...tharo mharo milan aiso lage re saathi jaiso diya aur baati hum...ho diya aur baati hum...
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This is about my tenth time going to the UniverSoul Circus and about the eighth time covering it. The circus performers may change but the theme remains the same: Having good family fun.
The venue was the Hickory Ridge Mall and the circus kicked off with SubRoy, a Memphis-area dance group that did a wonderful job. Perhaps my favorite circus act was next – The Caribbean Callaloo from Trinidad. Performers on stilts strut throughout the tent, towering over everyone. Then these beautiful women come out dancing in colorful outfits. Then comes the test of going under a stick blazing with fire. Wow! How low can you go?
Next up: the Olate Dogs from Chile. This is no doubt the best dog act I have ever seen. On the heels of their performance was the Willy Family High Wire Act from Columbia. As the audience locked in on their movements, the performers dazzled with unbelievable balance on the high wire.
The Queens of Sheba performance had circus-goers wondering how women and men could possibly turn their bodies in such a manner. You have to see it to believe it.
Between the acts, long-time UniverSoul Circus Icon Zeke and new host Lucky entertained the crowd. After about a 20-minute break, the 2nd half kicked off with the elephant show, always a crowd favorite, featuring the scary moment with an elephant steps over one of the female performers.
The UniverSoul Circus features acts from myriad parts of the world, with the diversity including the colorful Acrobatic Troupe from China. From high-wire swings they toss and catch each other amid gasps from below.
All in all, it was another slam-dunk run for the unique circus, which also featured the Soul Train line, more crowd participation and a finale to the song "Happy."
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I attended the Universal Soul Circus for the second time. It was SO entertaining!!! I loved how the ringmasters and the performers interacted with and acknowledged the audience. This circus was so much fun and all of the performers were amazing. It definitely is a Soul circus!!! I plan to attend every year from now on!!!!


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Beets are divisive.
Those who dislike beets frequently cite the "fact" that beets taste like dirt. Those who like beets, as we do, cite the "fact" that beets taste earthy, which is likely the same as saying they taste like dirt…but in a good way.
Beets are one of the more enduring garden items. They start coming up mid-summer and, because they grow underground, they can stay there at least until after the first frost. They keep all winter long in the refrigerator or root cellar.
On a website called ExperienceLife.com., I found a common misconception: "If you don't like the mess associated with peeling and cooking fresh beets — buy them canned."
It is completely wrong-headed to think that beets are messy or even that they have to be peeled (with a knife). If you just boil them, you'll find that they squirt out of their skins. You need neither wash nor peel them. Admittedly, though, this is not a kitchen task you'd want to perform wearing a white shirt.
Beets, treated right, are one of the world's easiest vegetables to prepare: They're very forgiving, so unless you leave them on the heat for hours, it's challenging to overcook them. After cooling, skins slide off — and if you work with beets in your kitchen sink, you'll minimize mess.
I wouldn't even slice them before serving: beets are beautiful and glistening when served whole, and if you use the boil-and-squirt approach, their exterior remains gorgeous, unmarred by the paring knife.
Here's a quick recipe:
1. Boil one pound of unwashed, skin-on beets
2. Cool beets and gently squirt out of skins
3. Serve whole (vinegar optional)
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Many cases reported as congenital indifference to pain or congenital analgesia were reported before the development of methods to assess the physiologic function of nerve fibers; Cox suggested that congenital indifference to pain due to mutations in the SCN9A gene is actually a form of insensitivity to pain since the defect is due to a channelopathy that is not normally detected by routine histopathology; The authors proposed the term "channelopathy-associated insensitivity to pain" for the disorder described here; Individuals with congenital indifference to pain have painless injuries beginning in infancy but otherwise normal sensory modalities; Perception of passive movement, joint position, and vibration are normal, as are tactile thresholds and light touch perception; Reflexes and autonomic responses are also normal; The axonal flare response after intradermal injection of histamine is normal, a finding that is in contrast to HSAN; Cases from consanguineous parents, and parental consanguinity has been noted in other cases suggesting autosomal recessive inheritance;
Gilly et al (1964) described 2 affected sibs who were born of normal parents and were of normal intelligence; Osuntokun et al (1968) described brother and half sister with congenital indifference to pain, who presumably had different fathers, both normal; They referred to the condition as "pain asymbolia" and noted the association of auditory imperception; Cox et al (2006) described individuals from 3 Pakistani families with congenital inability to perceive any form of pain, in whom all other sensory modalities were preserved and the peripheral and central nervous systems were apparently otherwise intact; The trait was segregating as an autosomal recessive in the family; All affected individuals had injuries to their lips (some requiring plastic surgery) and/or tongue (with loss the distal third in 2 cases), caused by biting themselves in the first 4 years of life; The children were considered of normal intelligence by their parents and teachers; All could correctly perceive sensations of touch, warm and cold temperature, propioception, tickle and pressure, but not painful stimuli; MAPPING: In 3 northern Pakistani families segregating autosomal recessive "channelopathy-associated insensitivity to pain," Cox et al (2006) mapped the trait to 2q24_3, a region containing the SCN9A gene, which encodes the alpha subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel, Nav1_7
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- jennjen18 Dec 17, 2006 11:22 PM
Hi Boston Chowhounds. I'm gonna be visiting for 3 weeks, and will be staying at Massachusetts Ave. near Boylston St. I'm soooooo getting dizzy from just looking at the map of Boston, and would definitely like some help in getting around the area to look for good chow. Please help me to find good
-Chinese food
-Vietnamese pho (or noodles of all asian kind, really)
-seafood (lobsters mainly, but also oysters, calamari, octopus, and fish)
-food court/take out type
-dessert type (ice cream, gelatos, cakes...)
-diner for light sandwiches and burgers, or even pizza or pasta to go
-breakfast type (with good coffee)
-market for all types groceries
Any other suggestions for good food is much appreciated!
Can anyone also tell me whether this is downtown Boston that I'm staying in?? Boy, I'm going to be really lost..
Thanks in advance!
If you are staying Boylston/Mass Ave you are in Boston near the Symphony. You are near a Whole Foods market for groceries.
To satisfy some of your other requests:
For seafood, my favorite is B&G Oysters in the South End. There is also Neptune Oyster in the North End though I personally favor B&G.
For Chinese, we do have a pretty good Chinatown. If you like Peking duck, I highly recommend King Fung Garden though you typically need to give them 24 hour notice to prepare the duck. They also make really good homemade noodles and scallion pancakes. For wonton noodle soup, I like Hong Kong Eatery.
There are several places where you can get a good burger. Some favorites of mine are 75 Chestnut in Beacon Hill and Audobon Circle near BU.
For sandwiches there is a place on the other end of Boylston St near Arlington called the Parish Cafe that almost exclusively serves sandwiches, each of which is the creation of one of our local Boston chefs.
Don't get yourself too terribly dizzy looking at the map of Boston. It is a pretty small city and quite walkable.
Enjoy your trip!
re: jennjen18
"Downtown" is a relative term. Yes, you're in the land of some skyscrapers, but the neighborhoods are more useful terms -- you're near Symphony and Back Bay; then probably more of a "downtown" would be the Financial District, which is near the North End and Chinatown, but not really all that far from Mass Ave, on the order of 2 miles. (Symphony is short for Boston's Symphony Hall, which is at the corner of Mass Ave and Huntington -- just a couple blocks from Boylston.)
BU is Boston University.
For Greek, try Steve's on Newbury Street. Seafood try Summer Shack across from the Sheraton Hotel. Italian head to the North End: Sage, Mamma Maria and Giaccomo's are great but pricey, for more red sauce type dining I like Piccola Venezia or Cibo, bothon Hanover Street in the Nroth End.
re: jheilig
Steve's on Newbury also does a pretty good diner-style breakfast.
There's a food court in the Prudential Center shops, as well as a Legal Seafood (you can get clam chowder takeout). I haven't spent enough time in the city recently to feel confident about current chow recommendations.
The subway is fairly accessible, too, and might make it easier to get around, since as you can tell by the map, the streets aren't laid out in a nice grid -- get a preview at www.mbta.com. You're probably closest to the Hynes/ICA stop or the Symphony stop. (Parking's a pain.)
You are within walking distance of Chef Chang's, which has excellent Chinese food (IMO much better than most, if not all places in Chinatown) and has fantastic lunch specials. Its on Beacon Street just past Park Drive. Walk to Kenmore Sq and it's 3 blocks up Beacon.
In the same block is the Busy Bee, a luncheonette out of the 60's with good diner food and particularly good breakfasts. It closes at 4 or so pm.
El Pelon is also within walking distance in the Fenway if you want excellent Mexican. Near El Pelon is Brown Sugar if Thai is in your plans.
Steve's is good for Greek as is Cafe Jaffa which is about a block (east?).
Seafood -- I'd avoid Summer Shack, (just MO) and revert to Legal which is in the Pru Center.
Pru Center has a smallish food court and a large Shaw's supermarket.
For Pho, head to chinatown now that Pho Pasteur on Newbury St. is closed.
JP Licks Ice Cream in near the corner of Mass Ave and Newbury Street
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Jaffa is at 48 Gloucester St, and is a place I frequent. I endorse their falafel and lamb, although I almost always order a sandwich rather than the more expensive grownup dishes.
Also, jennjen18, you will be near a Shaw's (Copley), a Whole Foods (Symphony), and a Trader Joe's (Boylston St.), as well as a restaurant called Domani, which gets mixed reviews here but IMHO the chef does some good things.
For Chinese/Vietnamese, search the board. You are walking distance from Chinatown and, as mentioned, Chef Chang's. You are a T ride from Little Q Hot Pot, which totally rocks the house. You can get easily to Dorchester, which also has good Vietnamese (search the board, you'll find it).
For fancy, expensive Italian, you could walk to Via Matta. There's also the famous North End. The problem with the North End is most of the places flamboyantly suck and take pride in their mediocrity. Search the board first to find out what doesn't suck in the North End. If you go in blind, chances are you will stumble upon the suck, and no one around these parts wants the suck.
You'll also be near the South End, which is a cool neighborhood but ridiculously over-priced. It does, however, house the Franklin Cafe, which makes good food. Also, you may want to check out Anchovies, which is hit-or-miss and occasionally annoying (on the fly and incorrect check mathematics) but, I reckon, pretty bitchin'. Generally speaking. There are other places in the South End too which I'm sure other people will describe better than I can.
And you can walk to Eastern Standard, in Fenway, which is also good.
Additionally, I really wanted to dislike the trendy and too-crowded Toro in the South End, but it was so good I couldn't do it.
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You are staying in what is called Back Bay. Downtown is a different area but not too far away. As someone said, Boston is very small and everything is close by subway (T) or even to walk. There are several stops near you. There are many food choices nearby as well and you have received good suggestions. If you do not want Whole Foods, there is a Shaw's nearby on Huntington in betwwen the Prudential Center and Copley. Ask how to get to the South End for good restaurants too. Stella and Toro are excellent. Very close to where you are. BU is Boston University. And, no one says "Massachusetts Avenue". It is called "Mass Av". Commonwealth is Com Av. You get the idea.
Hope you have a good time!
You are staying in Downtown Boston which means that you are walking/T (that's Boston lingo for the subways and buses) distance from everything you're looking for. Various restaurants in Chinatown will meet all of your Asian food requests. Try Hei la Moon or one of the other frequently recommended dim sum places. I like Pearl Villa (not China Pearl). There are also a couple of Vietnamese places and som egood Malaysian there. There is even a chinatown food court. As for seafood, this board generally likes Neptune Oyster and though it has its detractors, many believe Legal Seafoods to be consistent and good. Check out the many posts on the North End for your Italian needs. If you're interested in something a bit different, you are not far at all from Addis Red Sea in te south end for Ethiopian. Have fun!
re: tomaneng
Boylston & Mass ave is not downtown (near Berklee) - that's confusing info, especially since everybody else has got it right - it's really on the border of Symphony and Back Bay. But the Hynes/ICA station is on the corner and you can get on the green line streetcar/subway. Take a train towards downtown (inbound) and get off at Boylston and walk 2-3 blocks to Chinatown. Chinatown from Berklee would be too much of a walk for me - of course, I'm not exactly in shape.
For coffee in the morning, try Sonsie. Its full service restaurant that opens the front section just for coffee and pastries in the morning. Nice seats overlooking Newbury St. and won't set you back any more that Starbucks. It is located on Newbury St. in between Mass. Ave. and Hereford st.
You're in a good spot!
For Ice Cream, you are right near J.P. Licks, which is the first block of Newbury between Mass. Ave and Hereford St. I love the Cake Batter ice cream.
For a quick bite, you're also near Spike's, a good local hot dog joint.
For a great, simple, quick, and not too expensive Italian meal that is spitting distance from your place, just walk up Mass. Ave to Panifico, on the corner of Mass Ave. and Commonwealth Ave. Great homemade breads too, for the morning.
You are smack dab in between Back Bay and Kenmore. If you make a left on Comm. Ave off Mass Ave it is about a 5-10 minute walk to my favorite restaurant in Boston, India Quality, in Kenmore Square. Also in Kenmore Square is CH Favorite Eastern Standard, a hip bar/restaurant with wonderful food, and Petit Robert Bistro which is good affordable French.
You have lots of choices for markets...you are actually quite close to Trader Joes, on Boylston near Gloucester St.
You're in a good location. It's "downtown" in that it's within the bounds of Boston proper, although technically Downtown is the financial district.
A good way to get your bearings is by going down Newbury St starting at Mass Ave; just keep walking. A few places you might like...
Trident Booksellers & Café, a comfortable space for a snack and a read
Tapeo if you're in the mood for tapas and a glass of wine or sangria
Tealux for a great pot of tea and a sandwich
...keep going and you'll enter the Public Gardens which is especially pretty after a snowfall, and still further is Boston Common which has ice skating on Frog Pond. Beacon Hill is then nearby for cappuccino at a café on Charles St or a hot toddy at Beacon Hill Bistro or 75 Chestnut...you'll love your time here.
re: Niblet
Sorry to belabor this point but I fear that our visitor Jenn may be needlessly confused if told she is staying "downtown."
Mass Ave and Boylston is neither literally nor technically downtown. If all points within the bounds of Boston proper were considered downtown then Centre Street in JP would be downtown, as would be the bars on Dot Ave, Harvard Stadium and the airport.
Jenn, Boston is a city of neighborhoods. The area that you are staying in near Berkley School of Music straddles the Back Bay and the Fenway neighborhoods. No one calls it downtown. Read more about our neighborhoods here: http://www.cityofboston.gov/neighborh...
You are certain to have great food and a great time while here.
Thanks so much for your input, guys!! But keep on compiling them.. I especially would like to know what are the goodies and baddies of Chinatown (it seems like a walkable distance). Thanks a bunch! Snacks and light lunch tips are much appreciated. :)
For a food court, try heading down Commonwealth Ave to the Super 88 (large Asian grocer, great prices) near BU in Allston. They have a large food court with a variety of Asian options, extremely cheap and reasonable quality for that genre. I often get lunch there when grocery shopping. Very near there is Brown Sugar which has excellent Thai.
For seafood, East Coast Grill in Cambridge is a popular option; I like them a lot for great drinks, a lively atmosphere, and a good menu.
re: chilibaby
The place to go at Super 88 (which is at the Packards Corner stop on the B branch of the Green Line -- this will all make sense when you see a subway/streetcar map -- at the intersection of Comm Ave and Brighton Ave) is Ken's Ramen, which is not in the food court proper, but in a small restaurant space of its own that's between the food court and the supermarket. Easily the best Asian noodles in town, and that includes Chinatown now that the Noodle Alcove is no more.
The closest good pho is another three or four blocks up Brighton Ave (you can take a #57 bus from Kenmore Square, or walk from Packards Corner) at the northeast corner of Brighton and Harvard: Le's Restaurant, formerly known as Pho Pasteur. There's another Le's in Harvard Square, in a complex called The Garage that's on JFK Street.
For quick lunch bites in your immediate area Trident Bookstore & Cafe and the Other Side Cafe are just a block away from where you are staying.
Charlies Sandwich (on Columbus NOT Newbury) is a must for breakfast.


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Last week was filled with more idiotic outbursts from right-wingers, except some of them went beyond infantile rants and raves to posing real-life harm. As is often the case on the fringe these days, the tone was set by the biggest bigot from the biggest state, Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.
1. Ted Cruz: Pray for discrimination.
What is Texas's Tea Party senator seeking now? This week Cruz called on supporters to "simply pray" that LGBT Americans did not get equal legal rights because same-sex marriage was "heartbreaking." Yes, pray for a new Jim Crow.
In an interview with conservative radio host Janet Mefferd, Cruz started by saying that he introduced the "State Marriage Defense Act" to undo the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down parts of the federal government's ban on marriage equality. He accused liberal groups of using "brute power" to wage an assault and "subvert our democratic system." Then the Harvard Law School graduate, who forgets that an elite Republican lawyer argued for expanding gay rights before the court, issued his hateful hope.
Cruz said that gay marriage threatened liberty and he urged people to pray to God that gays and lesbians don't get equal marriage rights. "I think the most important thing your listeners can do is simply pray, because we need a great deal of prayer," he said. "Because marriage is really, really being undermined by a concerted effort. And it's causing significant harm."
When right-wingers like Cruz pray for discrimination, a curious thing happens. God doesn't RSVP ASAP. But other right-wingers do.
2. Answering Ted's hateful prayers, exhibit A.
A day after Cruz prayed for discriminatory divine intervention, the heavens—or rather the AM broadcasting spectrum—replied. Wrath-filled right-wing radio host Mark Levin didn't like a libertarian caller's opinion that LBGT Americans deserved equal legal rights and he disagreed that evangelizing moralists should stay out of people's sex lives.
What about women in polygamist marriages, Levin replied, saying they don't have equal legal rights. (Umm, polygamy is illegal in most states.) Then Levin, ever the AM loudmouth, unleashed a torrent about needed moral lines. "I'll give you an example to be as clear as I can," he said. "What if an individual decides to have sex with a close relative? And what if it's both agreed to, they both agree to it?"
Ted Cruz prays for discrimination and Mark Levin answers by saying gay marriage is like father-daugher incest. Levin doesn't need a microphone, he needs a psychiatrist.
3. Answering Cruz: Exhibit B, the other Ted.
Not to be upstaged, another foul-mouthed Ted—dinosaur rocker Ted Nugent—sprang up on the Texas campaign trail on Tuesday and spewed more predictable right-wing filth to boost Republican Attorney General Gregg Abbott's bid for governor. The Detroit-born Ted answered Texas Ted's prayer for discrimination by calling President Obama a "subhuman mongrel," among other things. It wasn't the first time he's said it. However, this time the national media took note.
Abbott replied with the political equivalent of a shrug and a sly smile. Democrats quickly pointed out that the messenger was a mess, a known sexual predator for underage girls. Anyone who has followed Abbott's antics as AG could hardly be surprised. This is the lawman who sent Texas Rangers to arrest Latino grandmothers—one while taking a shower—for registering voters, marching past local drug dealers and crack houses.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer had the right take, noting on-air that Nugent's hate speech was almost identical to one of the slurs used by Nazis against Jews. That point—and sense of history, of how hate speech can incite real racial violence—was lost on Nugent, who abruptly canceled his appearance on CNN afterward. Nugent, another right-wing crybaby who is afraid to stand by his words in unfriendly forums, turned to Twitter and lashed out, comparing CNN and Blitzer to the Nazi's propaganda wing.
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'Another good column, my friend. Dibs on your donated organs, if I need them!!!"
So read the note from a friend in response to last week's column on my decision to take up motorcycle riding.
Ha-ha . . . I should have known this was coming.
"Hey, John," my 91-year-old grandfather said last weekend, chuckling. "Why you want to wait all these years and ride a motorcycle?"
He was suggesting, as some of the men around him quivered with laughter, that I must have a death wish.
Not a death wish. Just a yearning to ride a Harley, hear it rumbling beneath me, the wind whistling, and nothing except road and miles of riding dreams in front of me.
Since last week, the response to my declaration of being smitten by the motorcycle-riding bug has been steady.
But I remain undeterred.
At last writing, I was enrolled in the Motorcycle Riding Program administered through the Illinois Department of Transportation Division of Traffic Safety, and getting a firsthand taste of the virtues — and hazards — of motorcycle riding. And like my 10 classmates— about half of them women — I was worried about passing the written and riding exams.
When I first broached the idea of riding a motorcycle, my wife said absolutely not, though she later softened. I still wonder if her change of heart wasn't because she peeked at my life insurance policy and figured that if the worst happened, she'd get my Harley and a big fat check. (I'm only joking!)
Actually, it was my enrollment in a motorcycle-safety class, my intentions to ride a cruiser rather than a crotch rocket, and my reassurances that I don't plan on getting killed.
Truth is, I suspect that most motorcyclists who have gotten killed didn't exactly plan on it. And yet each year, according to IDOT, some do.
In 2010, for example, 130 fatal crashes involving motorcycles resulted in the deaths of 131 motorcycle operators and passengers, and one non-motorcyclist.
Those numbers don't tell the entire story — something we covered in class with instructors, Chas Maricich and Jordan Sinwelski.
They emphasized that any number of factors contribute to motorcycle crashes and related fatalities and that understanding the hazards — as well as assuming the risk and personal responsibility for your own safety — can go a long way toward saving your life.
Among the most valuable lessons: That most often motorcyclists killed in crashes were not wearing a helmet.
† So wear a helmet and protective gear.
† Don't drink and ride.
† Intersections represent the greatest potential threat to motorcyclists and other traffic while curves represent potential danger for running off the road.
† So be aware and SEE (that's Search, Evaluate, Execute).
† And become a lifelong learner.
The overarching lessons I took from class:
The greatest danger to a "safe," skilled motorcycle rider is other motorists, and the greatest threat to unskilled, unsafe motorcyclists is themselves.
I got it. And in the end, I passed.
Harley, here I come.
As for my grandfather's chiding, I reminded him of two of his own sobering mantras: That "any day you're well enough to live, you're sick enough to die," and that "one thing's for certain: none of us is getting out of this life alive."
His point: Live life.
Now, as for my good friend's inquiry about my organs, uh, I think I'll be needing them myself — for a long time. But I think I just might have some liver to spare — chicken livers!