Accounting 211: Introduction to Managerial Accounting Fall 2013 Syllabus Professor Feng Gao‚ Ph.D. Phone: (312) 996 – 4438 Office Hours: Monday 1:00 – 2:00pm 2321 UH Wednesday 1:00 – 2:00pm 2321 UH Teaching Assistant Uma Mulakala Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00-3:00pm 2347 UH Thursday 1:00-3:00pm 2347 UH Anita Ivanova Office Hours/Review Sessions: TBA Course Email: actg211uic@gmail.com Class Schedule 27836 11:00-11:50 M/W/F LC A001 27837
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Analysis Period amount/Base Period Amount x100 9. One of several ratios that reflects solvency includes the: Debt-to-equity ratio 10. Current assets divided by current liabilities is the: Current Ration 11. Ch.18 Managerial accounting is different from financial accounting in that: (users and decision makers‚ purpose of info‚ flexibility of practice‚ timeliness of information‚ time decision‚ focus of information‚ nature of information) 12. Which of the following items are management concepts that
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|No | |D) |No |No | 19. An activity-based costing system that is designed for internal decision-making generally will not conform to generally accepted accounting principles. Which of the following is NOT a reason for this happening? A) Some manufacturing costs (i.e.‚ the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs) will not be assigned to products. B) Some nonmanufacturing
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Q1: There are two different types of cost accounting systems: Job order cost systems and process cost systems. How does management decide whether to use a job order cost system or a process cost system in any given manufacturing situation? Explain. Job order cost system is used in situations where many different products are produced each period. For example‚ a Levi Strauss clothing factory would typically make many different types of jeans for both men and women during a month. A particular order
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acceptable quality level (AQL) the defect rate at which total quality costs are minimised account classification method (or account analysis) the process in which managers use their judgement to classify costs as fixed‚ variable or semivariable costs accounting rate of return (or simple rate of return‚ rate of return on assets‚ unadjusted rate of return or return on investment (ROI)) the average annual profit from a project‚ divided by the initial investment accumulation factor the value of (1 r)n used
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that would permit employees to shift debt and losses off of the books would soon come to an end. With the help from Andersen Accounting firm‚ Enron would lose control of their illegal attempt to contain the debt and loss of the company. Ultimately‚ Enron became bankrupt‚ and the scandal was one of Americas largest accounting investigations into a firms illegal accounting practices and their attempt to conceal it from the shareholders and credit lenders. Divulging themselves into the scandal
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Managerial Accounting What Does Managerial Accounting Mean? - The process of identifying‚ measuring‚ analyzing‚ interpreting‚ and communicating information for the pursuit of an organization’s goals. This is also known as "cost accounting." - Managerial accounting is used primarily by those within a company or organization. Reports can be generated for any period of time such as daily‚ weekly or monthly. Reports are considered to be "future looking" and have forecasting value to those within
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costs Current Reimbursement contracts Current External reporting (inventory calculation) Current All the information cannot come from one source. The main accounting system may accumulate current and past costs but for much decision-making and planning‚ estimates of future costs will need to be generated outside of that accounting system. RQ4.3 How common are product costing systems in practice? Why might a business choose to do without a product costing system? L-S‚ T & H‚ page 134. A
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Cost Classifications and Estimation 2.0 Introduction Cost classification may be defined as ‘the arrangement of cost items in a logical sequence having regard to their nature and purpose to be fulfilled’. The term cost must be qualified when in use in order that its precise meaning is established in a particular situation; however‚ cost refers to the amount of resources that have been diverted from other uses or sacrificed so as to achieve the desired objective. But the term is used to refer to
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1. Basic Concepts Product cost = Direct Labor (DL) + Direct Materials (DM) + Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) Financial accounting Managerial Accounting + Sales + Sales - COGS - Variable Costs = Gross Profit = Contribution Margin - SG&A - Fixed Costs = Net Profit = Net Profit COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) is an “inventoriable cost” ( recorded in the Balance Sheet as inventory and expensed (Income Statement) when goods are sold SG&A (Selling‚ General & Administrative) are
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