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What is the Value Chain?

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set of activities that transform raw resources into the goods and services end-user purchase and consume

includes the treatment or disposal of any waste generated by the end users

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Which users use Financial Accounting? Cost Accounting?

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EXTERNAL/COMPARATIVE users use financial accounting

INTERNAL/MANAGEMENT Decision Making users use cost accounting

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What are Budgets?

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the financial plan of the revenues and resources needed to carry out activities and meet financial goals

-help manager decide whether goals can be achieved; may need modifications

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What timeframe is a budget usually prepared?

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for the upcoming period (usually 1 year)

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TRUE/FALSE: budgets are very important to the financial success of individuals and organizations

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TRUE

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What is an Opportunity Cost?

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the foregone benefit from alternative courses of action

-NOT recognized in an accounting system

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What is an Outlay Cost?

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past, present, or future cash outflow; “sacrifice”

-recognized as an asset or expense in an accounting system

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When is an expense charged?

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charged to P&L in period it’s incurred

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What is a Product Cost?

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Cost into the product
-Manufacturing/Inventory
-expensed as COGS
-DM, DL, MOH

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What is a Period Cost?

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Non-Manufacturing
-expense when incurred
-SG&A, abnormal spillage

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What is the formula for a Prime Cost?

*KNOW THIS FOR COMPUTATIONAL

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Direct Material + Direct Labor

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What is the formula for Conversion Cost?

*KNOW THIS FOR COMPUTATIONAL

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Direct Labor + MOH
-Variable Costs = Fixed per unit/variable in total

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What is the Full Cost?

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ALL manufacturing and sellings costs

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What consists of the Full Absorption Cost?

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ALL fixed and variable MANUFACTURING costs

“GROSS MARGIN”

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What consists of the Variable Cost?

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ALL variable manufacturing and selling costs

“CONTRIBUTION MARGIN”

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What is the purpose of calculating individual product (and service) costs?

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  1. computing the inventory values and the COGS for financial statements
  2. Helping various product managers make decisions regarding pricing, production, promotion, adding or dropping a product, whether to outsource selected products or services.
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What is the Basic Cost Flow Model?

*KNOW THIS FOR COMPUTATIONAL

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BB + TI - TO = EB

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Raw Materials TI = ____________

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Purchases

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Raw Materials TO = ____________

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requisitioned into production

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WIP TI = ____________

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raw materials requisitioned into production

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WIP TO = ____________

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cost of jobs completed during the period (COGM)

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F/Gs TI = ____________

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Cost of Goods Manufactured

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F/Gs TO = ____________

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COGS

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What is the difference between Direct and Indirect Costs, and examples?

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Direct = ASSIGNED to a product
-DM, DL

Indirect = allocated based on some measure of activity
-MOH, indirect mat., indirect labor, depreciation, utilities

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What are the 3 common estimated allocation bases?
1. Machine Hours 2. DL $ 3. DL Hours
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What is Job Costing?
"Job Shop" -customized -traces costs to individual units or specific jobs
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What is Process Costing?
"Continuous Flow Process" -homogenous/identical items -no need to trace costs to the individual unit level
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What is Operations Costing?
"Batch Production" -hybrid of job and process costing
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What are the THREE Inventory accounts?
1. Raw Materials 2. WIP 3. Finished Goods
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A debit to MOH reflects __________
ACTUAL indirect materials, indirect labor, or other
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A credit to MOH reflects ____________
APPLIED overhead based on the predetermined overhead rate
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What does Underapplied Overhead mean?
actual OH costs are in excess of the applied OH costs Dr. COGS Cr. MOH
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What does Overapplied Overhead mean?
applied OH costs are in excess of the actual OH costs incurred Dr. MOH Cr. COGS
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What are the Equivalent Units?
number of COMPLETE physical units to which units in inventories are equal in terms of work done to date
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What is the 4 Step Process in assigning costs to production?
1. Determine "physical flow" (BB + TI - TO = EB) 2. Calculate Equivalent Units of Production (EUPs) - Materials and Conversion Costs 3. Indetify product costs to account for 4. Compute costs per EUP (then allocate to WIP and F/G inventories)
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How do you find the EUPS?
of physical units x % of completion
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What does Weighted-Average Process Costing do?
combines the work and costs for the two periods (previous and current) and computes a single cost -makes it impossible to know how much it cost to make a product this period
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What does FIFO Process Costing do?
keeps previous and current periods separate -inventory numbers are more likely to reflect reality than under Weight-Avg because the units in ending WIP are likely to have been produced in the current period
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Which Process Costing Method gives managers better information about the work done in the current period?
FIFO Process Costing
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The Traditional/Plantwide allocation method uses __________
ONE cost pool for the entire plant as in a single-stage approach -uses ONE OH allocation rate
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What is ABC?
two-stage product costing method that first assigns costs to activities and then allocates them to products based on each product's consumption of activities -based on the concept that products consume activities and activities consume resources
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Which costing, ABC or Traditional/Plantwide, provides more detailed measures of costs?
ABC
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What is the cost/benefit tradeoff for ABC?
Provides more information about product costs but requires more record-keeping
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What is a budget?
a financial plan of the resources needed to carry out activities and meet financial goals
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What is the Master Budget comprised of?
(1) Operating Budgets -sales budgets -production "" -COGS "" -M&A "" Income Statement "" (2) Financial Budgets -Cash budget -Balance sheet
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TRUE/FALSE: assembling a master budget is a complex process requiring careful coordination of many different organization segments
TRUE
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What is a variance, and the difference between a favorable and unfavorable variance?
Variance = difference between planned result and actual outcome Favorable = when taken alone, increases operating profit Unfavorable - when taken alone, decreases operating profit
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Does a Master Budget change after being developed?
NO
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How many levels of sales volume is a Master Budget developed for
ONE level
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A Flexible Budget is developed for __________ level(s) if sales volume
several
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What is Sales Activity Variance?
difference between operating profit in MASTER BUDGET and operating profit in FLEXIBLE BUDGET that arises because the actual number of units sold is different from the budgeted number
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What does the Cost-Volume Profit Analysis (CVP) show?
studies the relations among revenues, costs, and volumes and their effect on profit to help managers make decisions
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What is the Profit Equation?
Total Revenues - Total Costs
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Profit =
(P-V)X - F
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Unit Contribution Margin =
P - V
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TRUE/FALSE: the contribution margin should be large enough to cover the fixed costs
TRUE
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How is the Break-Even Point found, in units? *KNOW FOR COMPUTATIONAL
Fixed Costs / Cont. Margin per unit
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How is the Break-Even Point found, in sales dollars? *KNOW FOR COMPUTATIONAL
Fixed Costs / Cont. Margin ratio ((P-V)/P)
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How is the Target Point found, in units? *KNOW FOR COMPUTATIONAL
Fixed Costs + Target Profit / Cont. Margin per unit
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How is the Target Point found, in sales dollars? *KNOW FOR COMPUTATIONAL
Fixed Costs + Target Profit / Cont. Margin ratio ((P-V)/P)
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What is Differential Analysis?
process of eliminating revenues and costs of alternative actions available to decision-makers and of comparing these estimates to the status quo
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What are Differential Costs?
costs that differ among two or more alternatives -CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION
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Can Differential costs be both variable and fixed costs?
YES!
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What are Sunk Costs?
costs incurred in the past that cannot be changed by present or future decisions
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What is a Special Order?
order that will not affect other sales and is usually a short-run occurrence
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What costs do decision-makers focus on when deciding to accept a special order?
Differential Costs
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When is a special order usually accpeted?
when idle capacity is adequate for the job
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Do financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP routinely provide differential cost information?
NO

ACC-427: Cost Accounting (6 decks)

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