Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which is NOT a characteristic of a functional-based costing system? a. It uses traditional product costing definitions. b. It uses unit-based activity drivers to assign overhead to products. c. It is cheaper than an activity-based costing system. d. It offers greater product costing accuracy than an activity-based costing system. ____ 2. Unit-based product costing uses which of the
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Managerial Accounting‚ 3e (Braun/Tietz) Chapter 2 Building Blocks of Managerial Accounting 1) Service companies must carry a large amount of inventory to meet consumer demand. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 LO: 2-1 EOC: E2-1 AACSB: Reflective Thinking Learning Outcome: Define and use cost-volume-profit analysis to analyze the effects of changes in costs and volume on a company’s profits 2) Manufacturing companies usually have three types of inventory. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 LO: 2-1
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Business Ethics in Managerial Accounting When companies don’t see the importance of business ethics in managerial accounting they usually end up down the same road as Enron: bankrupt. And while that isn’t always true‚ the importance of business ethics in managerial accounting cannot be understated if you want your company to be a success. Why Ethics Is Important in Managerial Accounting The Enron scandal is probably the most well-known example of improper accounting ethics on the part
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company. Managerial accounting is primarily used by individuals within a company or organization. The main purpose of financial accounting is to prepare financial reports that provide information about an organization’s performance to external parties like creditors‚ investors and tax authorities (Hilton‚ 2006). There are several key differences between both managerial and financial accounting. The first key difference is in the purpose of each method. For example‚ managerial accountings’ purpose
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Money and Banking Practice Questions Chapter 15 Question#7: Using the supply and demand analysis of the market for reserves‚ show what happens to the federal funds rate‚ holding everything else constant‚ if the economy is surprisingly strong‚ leading to an increase in the amount of checkable deposits. A rise in checkable deposits will leads to a rise in the required reserves at any given interest rate‚ and this will therefore shift the demand curve to the right. However if the federal funds
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Chapter 2 1. Which of the following would be considered a product cost for external financial reporting purposes? a. Cost of a warehouse used to store finished goods. b. Cost of guided public tours through the company’s facilities. c. Cost of travel necessary to sell the manufactured product. d. Cost of sand spread on the factory floor to absorb oil from manufacturing machines. 1. Which of the following would be considered a product cost for external financial reporting purposes
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CHAPTER 15 Multiple-Choice Questions 1. easy A sample in which the characteristics of the sample are the same as those of the population is a(n): b a. variables sample. b. representative sample. c. attributes sample. d. random sample. 2. easy When the auditor decides to select less than 100 percent of the population for testing‚ the auditor is said to use: a a. audit sampling. b. representative sampling. c. poor judgment. d. none of the above. 3. In practice‚ auditors
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Chapter 1: The Accounting Environment – What is Accounting and Why is it Done? Accounting is a system for gathering data about an entity’s economic activity‚ processing and organizing the data and in turn‚ communicating that information to people who want to use it to make decisions. Data are unprocessed facts about an entity’s economic activity that is entered into an accounting system whereas information results from organizing and presenting the data in ways that make it useful for decision
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Compute the depreciation expense for year 2009 on the building using the straight-line method‚ assuming a 15-year life and a $30‚000 salvage value. 495‚500 – 30‚00015 = 31‚000 3. Compute the depreciation expense for year 2009 on the land improvements assuming a five-year life and double-declining-balance depreciation. Step 1 Straight-line rate
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William Lloyd Garrison: Uncompromise During Times of Compromise William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was an American journalist and adamant abolitionist. Garrison became famous in the 1830s for his uncompromising denunciations of slavery. Garrison lived a troubled childhood. His family lived in poverty. In addition‚ his father was a drunkard‚ and when Garrison was three years old‚ his father deserted his family and never came back. Thus‚ with the absence of an encouraging father figure
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