Cost Control: Definitions and Methods Alejandro Madotta Accounting Supervisor II at Apache Corporation The cost of making a particular product or delivering a particular service is calculated by the finance and accounting department‚ with the help of a technique that is termed as Cost Accounting. The principle of cost accounting is very simple. The total cost of manufacturing a set or lot of goods or services is added up together and divided by the number of unites that have been produced‚
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Introduction Cost accounting is an integral part of estimating a new construction project and estimating a project’s cost is the most important step of all. Estimating project costs is even mentioned in the Holy Bible: "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Don ’t you sit down and estimate the cost‚ to see if you have enough capital to complete it? If you don ’t‚ then when you have laid the foundation but can ’t finish‚ all the onlookers start making fun of you and say‚ `This is the man
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weighted-average methods of process costing will result in the same dollar amount of costs being transferred to the next department. Which of the following scenarios would have that result? A) when the beginning and ending inventories are equal in terms of unit numbers B) when the beginning and ending inventories are equal in terms of the percentage of completion for both direct materials‚ and conversion costs C) when there is no ending inventory D) when there is no beginning inventory
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CHAPTER 25 STANDARD COSTS AND BALANCED SCORECARD SUMMARY OF QUESTIONS BY STUDY OBJECTIVES AND BLOOM’S TAXONOMY Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT Item SO BT True-False Statements 1. 1 K 9. 3 C 17. 3 C 25. 4 C sg33. 3 K 2. 1 K 10. 3 K 18. 4 K 26. 5 K sg34. 4 K 3. 1 C 11. 3 C 19. 4 C 27. 6 C sg35. 4 C 4. 1 K 12. 3 K 20. 4 K 28. 9 C sg36. 5 K 5. 2 C 13. 3 K 21. 4 K 29. 9 C sg37. 6 K 6. 3 C 14. 3 C 22. 4 K 30. 9 C sg38. 7 K 7. 3 K 15. 3 K 23. 4 C sg31. 1 K 8. 3 C 16. 3 K 24. 4 C
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Danshui Plant No.2 is facing insufficient information for Wentao Chen‚ manager of Danshui Plant‚ to evaluate the performance of their production for the first quarter of their contract to assemble the Apple iPhone4. They were anxious as their target to produced 200‚000 units of iPhone per month was unachievable as they could only produce 180‚000 of units per month. Wentao Chan had called Jianye ma to request a summary of monthly operations‚ unfortunately Bingqian Li was uncomfortable with the report
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Ronald Coase noted‚“The cost of doing anything consists of the receipts that could have been obtained if that particular decision had not been taken.” For example‚ the opportunity set for this Friday night includes the movies‚ a concert‚ staying home and studying‚ staying home and watching television‚ inviting friends over‚ and so forth. The opportunity cost of taking job A included the forgone salary of $102‚000 plus the $5‚000 of intangibles from job B. Opportunity cost is the sacrifice of
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sophisticated services. 2. Describe the existing cost system and calculate the cost of the 5 components in the case. What is wrong with the existing cost system? The existing cost system measures direct labour and overhead. Overhead is grouped into a single cost pool that includes overhead costs associated with each of the testing rooms as well as the engineering overhead costs relating to software and tooling development and the administrative costs of the division. ETO suppliers started to do
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following information to answer questions 1-3. Tee Times‚ Inc. produces and sells the finest quality golf clubs in all of Clay County. The company expects the following revenues and costs in 2004 for its Elite Quality golf club sets: Revenues (400 sets sold @ $600 per set) $240‚000 Variable costs 160‚000 Fixed costs 50‚000 1. How many sets of clubs must be sold for Tee Times‚ Inc. to reach their breakeven point? a. 400 b. 250 c. 200 d. 150 2. How many sets of clubs must be sold to earn
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Case Study Inventory The Cost of Inventory The general principle for cost inclusion into inventory for US GAAP and IFRS is similar but not exactly the same. First let us look at US GAAP. The basis of accounting for inventories is “cost‚” which is explained in ASC 330-10-30 paragraph 1 as “the sum of the applicable expenditures and charges directly or indirectly incurred in bringing an article to its existing condition and location.” These costs are divided into two different categories‚ the
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Chapter 6--Process Costing Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. A process is a series of activities or operations‚ which are linked to perform a specific objective. True False 2. The cost flows for a process-costing system are totally different from those of a job order costing system. True False 3. Process systems are characterized by a larger number of homogeneous products passing through a series of processes. True False
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