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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may departmental overhead rates NOT correctly assign overhead costs? A) Because of the potential use of machine hours in allocating overhead costs to products rather than direct labour hours or direct labour cost. B) Because of the high correlation between direct labour hours and the incurrence of overhead costs. C) Because of the over-reliance on volume as a basis for allocating overhead costs where products differ regarding the number of units produced‚ batch size‚ or complexity of production. D)
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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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(FALSE) 8.) Managerial accounting places less emphasis on non monetary data than financial accounting? (FALSE) 9.) Direct material cost combines with manufacturing overhead cost is known as conversion cost? (FALSE) direct labor 10.) The cost of shipping parts from a supplier is not considered a product cost? (FALSE) it is a product cost 11.) The fixed cost per unit is constant and does not depend on how many units are produced? (FALSE) it does depend (it is not constant) 12.) Managerial accounting is primarily
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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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Practice Exam 2 1. Short Stay Surgery uses a job costing system for all patients who have surgery. The clinic uses a normal costing system with operating hours as the allocation base. For the month of March‚ estimated total operating hours in the surgery suits were 3‚200 hours. The estimated overhead costs for the suites were $640‚000. Patient Sarah Handy was in surgery for 2.5 hours. Other costs related to Handy’s surgery include: Patient medicine $ 50
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Exercise 3-13. Costing Units Completed and Ending Work in Process [LO 2‚3‚4] At the start of November‚ Penco Refinery had Work in Process inventory consisting of 4‚000 units that were 90 percent complete with respect to materials and 50 percent complete with respect to conversion costs. The cost of the units was $38‚000 ($25‚000 of material cost and $13‚000 of labor and overhead). During November‚ the company started 44‚000 units and incurred $421‚970 of material cost and $394‚880 of labor and
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| Appraised Value | Percent of Total | Apportioned Cost | Building | $514‚250 | 55% ($514‚250/$935‚000) | $495‚000 ($900‚000 x 55%) | Land | 271‚150 | 29% ($271‚150/$935‚000) | 261‚000 ($900‚000 x 29%) | Land Improvements | 65‚450 | 7% ($65‚450/$935‚000) | 63‚000 ($900‚000 x 7%) | Four Vehicles | 84‚150 | 9% ($84‚150/$935‚000) | 81‚000 ($900‚000 x 9%) | Totals | $935‚000 | 100% | $900‚000 | 1. Prepare a table to allocate the lump-sum purchase price to the separate assets purchased
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HOW MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING ADDS VALUE TO ORGANIZATION 1. INTRODUCTION Management accounting provides accounting and related information to support the management of an organization in its internal decision-making. It includes product costing‚ relevant costing‚ cost-volume-profit analysis‚ capital budgeting‚ and operational‚ tactical‚ and strategic planning. A major activity included in the management accounting is the measurement of costs of processes that create value. Management accounting is
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control risk too low. 3. A number of factors influence the sample size for a substantive test of details of an account balance. All other factors being equal‚ which of the following would lead to a larger sample size? A. Greater reliance on internal accounting controls. B. Greater reliance on analytical review procedures. C. Smaller expected frequency of misstatements. D. Smaller measure of tolerable misstatements. 4. Which of the following sample planning factors would influence the sample
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