http://jobview.monster.com/Senior-Accountant-Manager-Job-San-Juan-PR-US-130837373.aspx Questions and answers 1. Under what conditions is direct labor a valid basis for allocating overhead? Direct labor is a valid basis for allocating overhead when: (a) direct labor constitutes a significant part of total product cost‚ and (b) there is a high correlation between direct labor and changes in the amount of overhead costs. 2. What has happened in recent industrial history to reduce the usefulness
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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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Compare assigned costs per product under both methods. Why has Activity-based costing changed the total costs assigned to each product? By comparing the two cost assigned methods‚ there are some differences existed: Unit Product Cost: | Gadgets | Smidgets | Smadgets | Smadgets | Traditional Costing Method | 400 | 1‚000 | 1‚350 | 850 | Activity-Based Costing Method | 590 | 1‚100 | 760 | 1‚250 | Overhead Cost | Widgets | Gadgets | Smidgets | Smadgets | Traditional Costing Method | 200‚000 |
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Chapter 2 Cost Terms‚ Concepts‚ and Classifications Solutions to Questions 2-15 Direct labour cost (46 hours $18 per hour) $828 Manufacturing overhead cost (6 hours $9 per hour) 54 Total wages earned $882 2-16 Direct labour cost (35 hours $26 per hour) $910 Manufacturing overhead cost (5 hours $26 per hour) 130 Total wages earned $1‚040 Problem 2-15 (30 minutes) Name of the Cost Variable Cost Fixed Cost Product Cost Period (Selling
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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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While I was looking for an appropriate topic for research‚ I found an interesting publication‚ which fitted best to the subject (ethics in managerial accounting issues) and also included 5 good examples examples of possible problems associated with the field. The method of the study seemed unclear‚ especially considering the connection between the serial number of a dollar bill and the question to which the respondent had to answer in the end (in my work I will constantly refer back to the text
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Current Ethical Issues in Managerial Accounting No company can nowadays afford to function alone. Partnerships are increasingly getting important and the effective exchange of information can determine profit or loss. An important method to cope with the increasing complexity is called supply chain management (SCM). It is enterprise-wide planning‚ management and control of all logistics tasks in the value chain. I decided to choose this topic because I had the chance to work with the system
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------------------------------------------------- Subject: Managerial Accounting Case 1 Seligram In the Seligram case‚ the existing cost accounting system measured two components of cost: direct labor and burden. All burden cost‚ which is the overhead‚ was grouped into a single cost pool and was calculated only by using a burden rate per direct labor dollar. This may cause problems since direct labor and overhead are not consumed by the products in the same proportion. Simply using the same burden
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Galilee College Managerial Accounting Final Exam Overview for Saturday June 8th Instructions A. Complete the budgeting questions and any one of the others. 1. Service Cost Allocations CLASS: Teck Tecky Water Services provides water for Departments A‚B and C and has prepared its total budget using the following information for the next year:- Fixed Costs $300‚000 Budgeted Gallon Usage:- Variable Costs $0.10 per gallon Dept. A 2‚500‚000 gallons Available capacity 10‚000
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BSAD 526 Managerial Accounting Case 8-35 Introduction Wyndham Stores operates a regional chain of upscale department stores. They plan to open another store in a prosperous and growing suburban area. The company’s Vice President of Marketing is in favor of buying the new building site and building a new building on the property. The projected cost for the new building is $14 million‚ according to the vice president of marketing. The problem with the vice president’s
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