only variable manufacturing costs. Answer: False Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: absorption costing Absorption costing “absorbs” all manufacturing costs‚ both fixed and variable. 2. Variable costing includes all variable costs — both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing — in inventory. Answer: False Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: variable costing Variable costing includes only manufacturing variable costs in inventory. 3. Under both
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Chapter 1 the equity method of accounting for investments Chapter Outline I. Three methods are principally used to account for an investment in equity securities. A. Fair-value method: applied by an investor when only a small percentage of a company’s voting stock is held. 1. Income is recognized when dividends are declared. 2. Portfolios are reported at market value. If market values are unavailable‚ investment is reported at cost. B. Consolidation: when
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING QUESTIONS 1. Management accounting stresses the informational needs of internal users over those of external users (the focus of financial accounting). Because of this perspective‚ management accounting provides information in a format that is flexible and relevant to a particular manager‟s usage. Financial accounting‚ on the other hand‚ must provide some uniformity in the manner in which information is presented for it to be comparable among companies and
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(CBA) Course Syllabus BFIN 340: Cost Accounting I COURSE INFORMATION Course Code & Title: BFIN 340: Cost Accounting I Credits: 3 credits Prerequisite: BFIN 231 Classroom: H204 Schedule: TTh: 8:00 – 9:15 Term: Fall 2014 INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION Instructor: Rima Hakim Office: Bldg G‚ Room 101-H Office Hours: TTh 9:30 – 11:30‚ Else by appointment Instructor’s Email: hakimrc@rhu.edu.lb Textbook & Material: Cost Accounting. 15th edition‚ Horngren‚ Datar and
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Decision Making 13.3 Types of Costs 13.4 Types of Choices Decisions 13.5 Make or Buy Decisions 13.6 Addition / Discontinuance of a Product line 13.7 Sell or Process Further 13.8 Operate or Shut down 13.9 Exploring New Markets 13.10 Maintaining a desired level of profit 13.11 Summary 13.12 Terminal Questions 13.13 Answers to SAQs and TQs 13.1 Introduction In the previous unit we learnt about Marginal Costing. Marginal costing is the ascertainment of marginal cost and of the effect on profit
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Cost Accounting - Chapter 1 1. Flexibility is said to be the hallmark of modern management accounting‚ whereas standardization and consistency describe financial accounting. Explain why the focus of those two accounting systems differs. Financial accounting is more about the bigger picture—it evaluates the finances of the organization as a whole‚ using historical‚ quantitative‚ monetary‚ and factual data. It is more formal and requires the use of GAAP. The information financial accounting
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GUILLERMO VAJDA COST ACCOUNTING ASSIGNEMENT 3 CHAPTER 5 Exercises 5-29‚ 5-42‚ 5-44‚ 5-46‚ 5-50‚ and Problem 5-56 5-29 Al’s Speedy Gourmet‚ a small hamburger shop‚ has identify the following resources used in its operations. Each customer order is a batch. 1 Classify its costs as unit-level‚ batch level‚ product level or facilities level costs. 2 Suggest a proper driver for each item. Bread. Unit-level. Hamburger Hourly help- facilities level. Labor Store rent – Facility-level. Ground beef
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B313F Management and Cost Accounting Assignment 1 Date due: 29 October 2008 Weighting: 15% of the total marks of the course Question 1 (25 marks) Mini Case – Seto’s Storage Warehouse Paul Seto owns and manages a commercial storage warehouse. He stores a vast variety of perishable goods for his customers. Under the existing pricing policy‚ he has charged customers using a flat rate of $2.40 per kilogram per month for goods stored. His storage warehouse has 10‚000 cubic metres of
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Datar‚ S.M. and Foster‚ G. (2003) Cost Accounting - A Managerial Emphasis‚ Pearson Education‚ Inc.‚ New Jersey‚ Eleventh Edition CHAPTER 11 DECISION MAKING AND RELEVANT INFORMATION 11-1 The five steps in the decision process outlined in Exhibit 11-1 of the text are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Obtain information Make predictions about future costs Choose an alternative Implement the decision Evaluate performance to provide feedback 11-2 Relevant costs are expected future costs that differ among the alternative
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Was the existing system adequate in the past? Why or why not? Why is it no longer adequate? The existing system was adequate in the past due to heavy reliance on direct labor hours. The ETO served as a central cost center‚ and transferred the costs to other divisions at direct costs plus allocated burden. Being in the late 1970s and early 1980s‚ technology testing of components required fewer cycles‚ and less complicated structures. Hence‚ such testing on products could be carried out by direct
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