Which of the following involves significant financial investments in projects to develop new products‚ expand production capacity‚ or remodel current production facilities? A) capital budgeting B) working capital C) master budgeting D) project-cost budgeting Answer: A Diff: 1 Terms: capital budgeting Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 2) The two factors capital budgeting emphasizes are: A) qualitative and nonfinancial B) quantitative and nonfinancial C) quantitative
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Chapter 9—Break-Even Point and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. CVP analysis requires costs to be categorized as a. | either fixed or variable. | b. | direct or indirect. | c. | product or period. | d. | standard or actual. | ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy OBJ: 9-1 NAT: AACSB: Reflective Thinking LOC: AICPA Functional Competencies: Decision Modeling 2. With respect to fixed costs‚ CVP analysis assumes total fixed costs a. | per unit remain constant
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this formula Direct labor cost = 40000 = 6250 Hours Per D.Labor hours rate 6.40 1) Prime Cost (2) Conversion Cost Material opening 24000 Direct labor 40000 + purchase 56000 FOH Applied Material available for use 80000 6250 Hours@ 8 50000 - Material ending (20000) Conversion cost 90000 Material used 60000 + Direct labor 40000 Prime Cost 100000 (3) Cost of goods manufactured (4) Cost of goods sold Prime cost 100000 Cost of goods manufactured
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quality of decisions made using that information. True False 3. An operating unit of an organization is called a profit center if it is responsible: only for revenues. for investments in assets. for costs and revenues. only for costs. 4. Properly designed management control systems have both fixed compensation and contingent compensation. True False 5. Controllable revenue is included in a performance report of a:
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fully allocating all costs to products‚ customers‚ and other costing objects in an activity-based costing system. This results in overstated costs. More accurate product costs may result in increasing the selling prices of some products. 3. Matt Company uses activity-based costing. The company has two products: A and B. The annual production and sales of Product A is 8‚000 units and of Product B is 6‚000 units. There are three activity cost pools‚ with total cost and total activity as
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40 a- Cost of goods manufactured = Direct cost + Indirect cost = [Direct Cost of Material + Direct Cost of Labor] + [Indirect Cost of Material + Indirect Cost of Labor + Utilities Overhead] = Total Cost of Material + Total Cost of Labor + Utilities Overhead = 120‚000 + 90‚000 + 40‚000 = $ 250‚000 b- Total Cost of Operation = Cost of goods manufactured + Selling‚ General admin. and expenses. = 250‚000 + 60‚000 = $ 310‚000 c- Prime Cost =Direct Material Cost + Direct Labor
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Role of Cost Accounting and Ethical Consideration Role of Cost Accounting and Ethical Consideration Introduction Cost accounting is used to help management understand how much it cost to run a business. Understanding the role of cost accounting is important when one is trying to put together a team of managers to help run the company. The CEO of a merchandising organization needs to hire a CFO to run the accounting system‚ but the CEO has little understanding of cost accounting. The CEO
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Framework Zhang Yi Fei and Che Ruhana Isa becoming more and more popular [3-7] ABC aims to provide accurate costing information to managers to allocate activity costs to products and services by applying cost drivers [8]. Academics who advocate ABC‚ such as‚ Cooper and Kaplan [9]‚ and Swenson [10] argue that it provides more accurate cost data needed to make appropriate strategic decisions about product mix‚ sourcing‚ pricing‚ process improvement‚ and evaluation of business process performance. These
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Historical Cost accounting Historical cost accounting has been a controversial method that experienced many criticisms over a period of time‚ especially since it considers the acquisition cost of an asset and does not recognize the current market value. Merits and demerits of this method are as follows. The most obvious advantage of HC accounting is objectivity. It is a predominantly objective system‚ which records the original cost of an item when it was purchased. Under historical cost accounting
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Cost accounting and the lean production philosophy By Tyrone Williams AIU Online September1‚ 2012 Abstract As Dr. Stephanie White prepares to cope with the a steep reduction in the budgetary allocation to the Uptown Clinic she must carefully determine which areas to cut while striving to maintain current levels of service. This essay will offer advice Dr. White on preparing for budget cuts. It will also discuss the lean production philosophy and how this compares with typical production
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