CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING QUESTIONS 1. Management accounting stresses the informational needs of internal users over those of external users (the focus of financial accounting). Because of this perspective‚ management accounting provides information in a format that is flexible and relevant to a particular manager‟s usage. Financial accounting‚ on the other hand‚ must provide some uniformity in the manner in which information is presented for it to be comparable among companies and
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CAPACITY ANALYSIS 9-1 No. Differences in operating income between variable costing and absorption costing are due to accounting for fixed manufacturing costs. Under variable costing only variable manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Under absorption costing both variable and fixed manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Fixed marketing and distribution costs are not accounted for differently under variable costing and absorption costing. 9-2 The term direct costing
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Cost Accounting - Chapter 1 1. Flexibility is said to be the hallmark of modern management accounting‚ whereas standardization and consistency describe financial accounting. Explain why the focus of those two accounting systems differs. Financial accounting is more about the bigger picture—it evaluates the finances of the organization as a whole‚ using historical‚ quantitative‚ monetary‚ and factual data. It is more formal and requires the use of GAAP. The information financial accounting
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INTRODUCTION Realised-profit‚ matching-based‚ historical cost accruals accounting (HCA) has for over fifty years been repeatedly challenged as being an inadequate basis for the measurement of "income" which reports increments in the value of businesses. Such challenges continue unabated and are made by both accounting standards regulators and by academic commentators. Despite its obvious deficiencies for measuring valuation based income‚ and subject to concept of prudence‚ internationally HCA remains
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scarce resource and add value‚ all those kind of issues should be considered in planning stage and adjust its flexibility in order to realising that strategic intent. Question 2 What are the principal reasons for strategic management and thinking? Strategic management plays an important role as it helps in setting detailed goals‚ analysing all our internal and external resources‚ analysing our external environment‚ as well as stakeholder views. If a company want to survival of the fittest‚ then
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(CBA) Course Syllabus BFIN 340: Cost Accounting I COURSE INFORMATION Course Code & Title: BFIN 340: Cost Accounting I Credits: 3 credits Prerequisite: BFIN 231 Classroom: H204 Schedule: TTh: 8:00 – 9:15 Term: Fall 2014 INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION Instructor: Rima Hakim Office: Bldg G‚ Room 101-H Office Hours: TTh 9:30 – 11:30‚ Else by appointment Instructor’s Email: hakimrc@rhu.edu.lb Textbook & Material: Cost Accounting. 15th edition‚ Horngren‚ Datar and
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Skylab Education SCHOOL OF CHARTERED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING Course Title: Fundamentals of Management Accounting Course Code: C01 Batch 131 Section: 01 Instructor: Kamruzzaman Sabbir Class Time: FRI & SAT 10.00AM – 12.00PM Office hours: By Appointment Cell: 01674906177 Web: www.ksbcima.blogspot.com e-mail: ksb.mmu@gmail.com ================================================================================ COURSE OBJECTIVES:
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For the Year Ended December 31 Sales | | $16000000 | Manufacturing Costs: | | | Variable | $7200000 | | Fixed Overhead | 2340000 | 9540000 | Gross Margin | | 6460000 | Selling and Administrative Costs: | | | Commissions to agents | 2400000 | | Fixed marketing costs | 120000 | | Fixed administrative costs | 1800000 | 4320000 | Net operating income | | 2140000 | Fixed interest cost | | 540000 | Income before income taxes | | 1600000 | Income Taxes
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1). Fixed cost per unit decreases when: a. Production volume increases. b. Production volume decreases. c. Variable cost per unit decreases. d. Variable cost per unit increases. 2). Prime cost + Factory overhead cost is: a. Conversion cost. b. Production cost. c. Total cost. d. None of given option. 3). Find the value of purchases if Raw material consumed Rs. 90‚000; Opening and closing stock of raw material
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Management Accounting‚ Cdn. 6e (Horngren/Sundem/Stratton/Beaulieu) Chapter 1 Management Accounting and Management Decisions 1) Both internal managers and external parties use accounting information. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 16 Objective: 8 2) Internal accounting reports must follow generally accepted accounting principles and account for assets at historical cost. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 16 Objective: 8 3) Organizations that
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