Chapter 1—Introduction to Cost Management LEARNING OBJECTIVES |LO 1 |What are the relationships among financial‚ management‚ and cost accounting? | |LO 2 |What are two common organizational strategies? | |LO 3 |What is a value chain‚ and what are the major value chain functions? | |LO 4
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Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS 3-1 (a) Use in financial accounting: In financial accounting‚ product costs are needed to determine the value of inventory on the balance sheet and to compute the cost-of-goods-sold expense on the income statement. b) Use in managerial accounting: In managerial accounting‚ product costs are needed for planning‚ for cost control‚ and for decision making. c) Use in cost management: In
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Question 1 Product costs are costs that are associated with manufactured goods until the time period during which products are sold. It involved all costs in acquiring or making a product. These costs consist of direct materials‚ direct labour and manufacturing overhead. Product costs are initially assigned to an inventory account on the balance sheet. When the goods are sold‚ the costs are released from inventory as expenses and matched against sales revenue. Since product costs are initially assigned
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JIT Technology Solutions Cost Analysis Daniel Shugars your school name here JIT Technology Solutions Cost Analysis There are a large variety of JIT Technology solutions in this nation because of the massive amounts of advanced technology that is introduced regularly. The online learning environment utilized a variety of these solutions to assist with communication‚ education‚ and demonstration in the internet classroom. The technologies of Microsoft office and audio/video capabilities can help
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LOSS ACCOUNT Sales have increased over the years‚ but the rate of this increase is not steady. The highest sales point was in 2006. Cost of sales and expenses with the exception of other expenses have increased at a steady rate. Other operating expenses have fluctuated over the years; the lowest point was in the first year with the highest being in 2006. Finance cost seems to have reached a peak in 2006 and the fallen by 2008. Net Profit after Tax follows a similar pattern to sales. CC3 CONSOLIDATED
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IFRIC 14 IFRIC Interpretation 14 IAS 19—The Limit on a Defined Benefit Asset‚ Minimum Funding Requirements and their Interaction In July 2007 the International Accounting Standards Board issued IFRIC 14 IAS 19—The Limit on a Defined Benefit Asset‚ Minimum Funding Requirements and their Interaction. It was developed by the Interpretations Committee. In November 2009‚ IFRIC 14 was amended to address prepayments of future minimum funding requirement contributions. IAS 1 Presentation of
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2ACCT 455 CHAPTER 2 Solutions 2. Suppose that P.V. Ltd. paid a dividend of $10 at the end of year 1 (any portion of year 1 net income would do). Then‚ its year 2 opening net assets are $276.36‚ and net income would be: P.V. Ltd. Income Statement For Year 2 Accretion of discount (10% × 276.36) P.V.’s balance sheet at time 2 would be: P.V. Ltd. Balance Sheet As at Time 2 $27.64 Financial Asset Cash: (140 + 14 + 150) $304.00 Shareholders’ Equity Opening Balance: 276.36 (286.36 - 10.00 dividend)
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Control Systems Solutions to Review Questions Accounting assigns costs and revenues to “responsibility centers” that correspond to the decision authority of managers. This allows the firm to measure performance based on the results of decisions by the manager. An effective corporate cost allocation system separates the results of decisions by corporate managers from those of business unit managers. Although there are well-developed standards for many accounting transactions‚ accounting decisions
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CHAPTER 3 The Accounting Cycle QUESTIONS Q3-1. Much more judgement is required for accrual accounting than for cash accounting because there is greater uncertainty at the time events are recorded in the accounting system. There is no uncertainty around the point in time when the cash is paid or collected. Accrual accounting records economic events‚ not cash flows. When an economic event occurs can be ambiguous. It’s less certain when revenue has been earned than when cash is received. It
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1) The cost of production for the mixing Department for the month of January 2010. (showing clearly the physical Units‚ Equivalent production Uniot and the cost assignment and cost analysis. 1 (a) Equivalent Flow of Production Physical units Direct Material Conversion Cost Work in Process‚ Beg. Jan. 1‚ 2010 - Started during the current period 5‚000.00 Total cost to be accopunted for 5‚000.00
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