TEST BANK CHAPTER 1 Intercorporate Investments: An Overview MULTIPLE CHOICE Use the following information on a company’s investments in equity securities to answer questions 1- 4 below. The company’s accounting year ends December 31. | |Date of acquisition|Cost |Fair value |Date sold |Selling price | |Investment | | |12/31/10 | |
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preparation. Identify Issues Analyze Data Build Model Run Model Make Decision Management Accounting: Decision-making The Corporate Environment: Corporations are a conglomeration of people with a common purpose. The individuals seek to attain goals for the corporation‚ with the ultimate goal being profitability. In order to achieve this goal‚ management performs a variety of activities. 1) 2) 3) Planning: strategically deciding how‚ where and when to use the firm’s limited resources Directing
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Q1: There are two different types of cost accounting systems: Job order cost systems and process cost systems. How does management decide whether to use a job order cost system or a process cost system in any given manufacturing situation? Explain. Job order cost system is used in situations where many different products are produced each period. For example‚ a Levi Strauss clothing factory would typically make many different types of jeans for both men and women during a month. A particular order
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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 1. A mixed cost function has a constant component of $20‚000. If the total cost is $60‚000 and the independent variable has the value 200‚ what is the value of the slope coefficient? a. $200 b. $400 c. $600 d. $40‚000 2. [CMA Adapted] Of the following methods‚ the one that would not be appropriate for analyzing how a specific cost behaves is a. the scattergraph method. b. the industrial engineering approach. c. linear programming. d. statistical regression analysis.
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Chapter 9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objective 1 9-2 Learning objective 1 • List and explain five purposes of budgeting systems. Purposes of Budgeting Systems Budget Budget a detailed plan‚ expressed in quantitative terms‚ that specifies how resources will be acquired and used during a specified period of time. 1. Planning 2. Facilitating Communication and Coordination 3
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$84‚000. The company has provided the following data in the form of an Excel worksheet: [pic] .:. Required: 1. a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for the year. b. Compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year. 2. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for the year. 3. Compute the cost of goods sold for the year. (Do not include any underapplied or overapplied overhead in your cost of goods sold figure.) What options are available for disposing of
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Chapter 3 Solutions‚ 3rd day Exercise 3-13 (15 minutes) 1. | Actual manufacturing overhead costs | | $ 48‚000 | | Manufacturing overhead applied: 10‚000 MH × $5 per MH | | 50‚000 | | Overapplied overhead cost | | $ 2‚000 | | | | | 2. | Direct materials: | | | | Raw materials inventory‚ beginning | $ 8‚000 | | | Add: Purchases of raw materials | 32‚000 | | | Raw materials available for use | 40‚000 | | | Deduct: Raw materials inventory
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you‚ a management accounting student‚ for help in preparing the budget for the coming fiscal year. Your conversations with the President and your investigations of the company’s records have revealed the following information: 1. Peak months for sales correspond with gift-giving holidays. History shows that January‚ March‚ May and June are the slowest months with only 1% of sales for each month. Sales pick up over the summer with July‚ August and September each contributing 2% to the total.
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Chapter 1 Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making Solutions to Review Questions 1-1. Financial accounting is designed to provide information about the firm to external users. External users include investors‚ creditors‚ government authorities‚ regulators‚ customers‚ competitors‚ suppliers‚ labor unions‚ and so on. Cost accounting systems are designed to provide information to internal users (managers). This difference is important‚ because it affects the design of the systems. Financial
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the changes in operations done by ACF. At the end of the 1988 model year‚ oil pans and muffler-exhaust systems were outsourced from the ACF. This resulted in a loss of 60 labor jobs and 30 indirect jobs. 2. Consider two products in the same product line: | Product 1 | Product 2 | Expected Selling Price | $62 | $54 | Standard Material Cost | $16 | $27 | Standard Labor Cost | $6 | $3 | Calculate the expected gross margin as a percentage of selling price on each product based on
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