Week 4 Practice Quiz 1. Budgeting is the common accounting tool companies use for planning and controlling. Budgets a. provide a measure of planned financial results. b. focus managers’ energies on exploiting opportunities. c. help managers anticipate potential problems. d. enable managers to control through a set of specific activities with defined corrective actions. 2. [AICPA Adapted] Dewitt Co. budgeted its activity for October 2004 from the following information:
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Cost Accounting Role Cost accounting is valuable to an organization if it significantly improves the decision making process within the organization by providing accurate and timely input regarding the cost behavior in organizations. Generally based on standard accounting practices‚ cost accounting is one of the tools that managers utilize to determine what type and how much expenses is involved with maintaining the current business model. At the same time‚ the principles of cost accounting
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ADVANTAGES OF COST ACCOUNTING 1. Fixation of responsibility: Whenever a cost center is established‚ it implies establishing a kind of relationship between superior and subordinates. Thus responsibilities are fixed on every individual who is concerned with incurrence of cost. 2. Measures economic performance: By applying cost control techniques such as budgetary control and standard costing it helps in assisting the performance of business. 3. Fixation of price: By providing cost data it
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TEST BANK Michael J. Quinn 23 January 2012 Copyright © 2013 by Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Multiple-choice Questions For each of the following questions‚ choose the letter of the one best response. Chapter 1 1. The two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been a) books and pamphlets. b) computers and communication networks. c) movie theaters and public parks. d) newspapers and magazines. e) radio and television. 2. Which statement best supports the conclusion
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Test Bank for Johns/Saks‚ Organizational Behaviour‚ Ninth Edition Chapter 1 1) The most important goal of virtually all organizations is a. profit. b. survival. c. employee development. d. cost reduction. e. increased productivity. Answer: b Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Reference: 5 Skill: Recall Objective: 1.1 Define "organizations" and describe their basic characteristics. 2) Which of the following is most accurate? a. Human resources management is basically the same as organizational
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Allocate joint product costs according to the benefits-received approaches and the relative market value approaches. 3. Describe methods of accounting for by-products. 4. Explain why joint cost allocations may be misleading in management decision making. 5. Discuss why joint production is seldom found in service industries. This chapter describes the joint production processes and their outputs—joint products and by-products. Several methods are developed to allocate joint costs to joint products
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Prime Cost YES.....Conversion Cost NO. Prime Cost YES.....Conversion Cost YES. Prime Cost NO....Conversion Cost NO. Prime Cost NO.....Conversion Cost YES. | 2. (TCO A) The costs of staffing and operating the accounting department at Central Hospital would be considered by the Department of Surgery to be (Points : 6) | direct costs. sunk costs. incremental costs. None of the above | 3. (TCO A) The cost of lubricants
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Cost Accounting Cost accounting is a step further to and a refinement of financial accounting in which cost of manufacturing and selling each product or job or rendering service is determined‚ not at the time of accounting period but at the time when the product is manufactured or any service is rendered. In simple words‚ costing is a systematic procedure for determining the unit cost of output produced or services rendered. It provides for an analysis of the expenditure which enables the management to
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COST ACCOUNTING-MMS FORMAT OF COST SHEET Opening stock of Raw Material XX Add: Raw material purchased XX Less: Closing Stock of Raw Material XX Raw Material Consumed ZZ Direct Labor XX Direct Expenses. XX PRIME COST ZZ Add: Factory Overheads: Indirect Material XX Indirect Labor XX Indirect Expenses XX GROSS WORKS COST/FACTORY COST ZZ Add: Opening WIP XX Less: Closing WIP XX COST OF GOODS MANUFACTURED
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Meaning of Cost Accounting Previously‚ cost accounting was considered to be a technique for the ascertainment of costs of products or services on the basis of historical data. In time‚ due to the competitive nature of the market‚ it was realized that ascertaining of cost is not as important as controlling costs. Cost accounting started to be considered more as a technique for cost control as compared to cost ascertainment. Due to the technological developments in all fields‚ cost reduction has
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