L-S‚ T & H‚ Chapter 4: RQ4.1‚ RQ4.3‚ RQ4.5‚ RQ4.7‚ RQ4.8‚ RQ4.9‚ RQ4.10‚ RQ4.11‚ RQ4.14‚ RQ4.15‚ RQ4.18‚ RQ4.20 E4.21‚ E4.25‚ E4.26‚ P4.33‚ P4.36‚ P4.37 and P4.40. RQ4. 1 Identify the major purposes of product costing. For each purpose discuss whether information about current or future product costs is required. What implication does your answer have for developing a product costing system? L-S‚ T & H‚ page 131. Purpose Current / Future Product Costs Short-term decisions: product mix‚ pricing
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SYLLABUS FOR MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING – ACCT 5100/7100 PROFESSOR LINDA BAMBER Fall 2012 Date 8/14 Tue. Topic Introduction to Management Accounting and Professionalism Chapter and Reading Course Outline Syllabus eLC Student Orientation: http://elc.uga.edu/student_orientation /index.html Assignment Due Today 1) Hand in your ACCT 5100/7100 profile. 2) Form teams of four with no more than one MBA student per team (I will try to fill out teams of two or three). One team member should email
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manufacturing or trading‚ require cost accounting to track their activities.[1] Cost accounting has long been used to help managers understand the costs of running a business. Modern cost accounting originated during the industrial revolution‚ when the complexities of running a large scale business led to the development of systems for recording and tracking costs to help business owners and managers make decisions. In the early industrial age‚ most of the costs incurred by a business were what modern
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1 CHAPTER ONE: ACCOUNTING IN BUSINESS Chapter Outline I. Importance of Accounting—we live in the information age‚ where information‚ and its reliability‚ impacts the financial well-being of us all. A. Accounting Activities Accounting is an information and measurement system that identifies‚ records and communicates relevant‚ reliable‚ and comparable information about an organizations business activities. B. Users of Accounting Information 1. External Information Users—those not directly involved
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CHAPTER 1 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING‚ TYPES AND ETHICS. 1) Managerial Accounting: Firms internal accounting system and designed to support the information needs of managers in order to make decisions. Not bound by GAAP. a) Managerial accounting has 3 objectives: i) To provide information for planning organization actions ii) To provide information for controlling organization actions. iii) To provide information for making effective decisions. b) Reports that help mangers that are nonfinancial are:
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Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis‚ EXHIBIT 11-1 Accounting Information and the Decision Process FIVE-STEP SEQUENCE Step 1: Gathering Information AN ILLUSTRATION The current manufacturing line uses 20 employees‚ 15 operating machines‚ and 5 handling materials‚ for a total cost of $640‚000. The rearrangement of the manufacturing assembly line is expected to eliminate materials-handling costs‚ equivalent to $160‚000. The cost of the rearrangement will be $90‚000. Historical
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CHAPTER 12 STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS SUMMARY OF QUESTIONS BY OBJECTIVES AND BLOOM’S TAXONOMY |Item | |1. | |42.
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If you are starting out in a new business‚ especially a service/manufacturing business‚ understanding the cost accounting system and which cost accounting system will work best for your company‚ is the first step to being successful. Once you find someone to help you navigate those waters‚ let them help you sail the rough seas of direct and indirect inventory‚ direct and indirect labor costs‚ and how to allocate factory overhead as well. While it all may sound confusing‚ having the right person
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Chapter 7 Homework Solutions Q7-1 Absorption and variable costing differ in how they handle fixed manufacturing overhead. Under absorption costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a product cost and hence is an asset until products are sold. Under variable costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a period cost and is expensed on the current period’s income statement. Q7-2 Selling and administrative expenses are treated as period costs under both variable costing and absorption
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CONFIRMING PAGES Chapter 2 Learning Objectives After studying Chapter 2‚ you should be able to: LO1 Identify and give examples of each of the three basic manufacturing cost categories. LO2 Distinguish between product costs and period costs and give examples of each. including calculation of the cost of goods sold. LO4 Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured. LO5 Understand the differences between variable costs and fixed costs. LO6 Understand the differences between
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