Chapter 4: Costs and Cost Minimization Multiple Choice 1. Suppose you are a star basketball player at a major university in your sophomore year. You are sought after by several NBA teams. Which of the following choices best characterizes your opportunity cost if you choose to drop out of college and enter the NBA? a) The value of your college scholarship that you have given up. b) The skills that two more years of playing at your college would have given you along with their additional value
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Business (UKM-GSB-LHDN) Cost Classification: Government Agency PROBLEM 2-56 The Department of Natural Resources is responsible for maintaining the state’s parks and forest lands‚ stocking the lakes and rivers with fish‚ and generally overseeing the protection of the environment. Several cost incurred by the agency are listed below. For each cost‚ indicate which of the following classifications best describe the cost. More than one classification may apply to the same cost item. The Answers
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1) Direct and indirect cost Direct cost- We can easy compare direct to fixed cost. They are very similar. Direct cost we can name this cost which are directly attributable to the sale of a product. Direct costs can be identified specifically with a particular sponsored project‚ or that can be directly assigned to such activity relatively easily with a high degree of accuracy.It is necessarily to good understand that cost shared expenditures are considered to be direct costs. We have 3 types of
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Problem 1-7A (75 minutes) Part 1 DE LEON COMPANY Manufacturing Statement For Year Ended December 31‚ 2013 Direct materials Raw materials inventory‚ December 31‚ 2012 $ 166‚850 Raw materials purchases 925‚000 Raw materials available for use 1‚091‚850 Less raw materials inventory‚ December 31‚ 2013 182‚000 Direct materials used $ 909‚850 Direct labor 675‚480 Factory overhead Depreciation expense—Factory equipment 33‚550
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what is most likely to go wrong in the analysis of direct material and other direct costs and what could be done about it. The analysis of direct material and other direct costs and what could be done about it is that when a particular organization prepares for the budget in relation to the cost of direct material or direct labor then‚ it has to consider the inflation rate and the standard rates in the industry. In relation to the direct labor cost‚ the organization has to analyze of the industrial
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CONTROLLING LABOR COST The timekeeping and payroll departments have the responsibility of maintaining labor records. The timekeeping and payroll functions may be established as separate departments or organized as subdivisions of a single department. Increasingly‚ automated timekeeping technology has replaced ‘‘timekeeping’’ as a separate department. For example‚ many companies issue magnetic cards to direct laborers who use them to ‘‘log on’’ and ‘‘log off’’ to specific job assignments. They
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strategic responses are potentially available to a firm facing competition from manufacturers enjoying a substantial labor cost advantage? Changing a new cost system‚ focusing on customer needs. What issues are relevant in considering moving a manufacturing plant to a low wage location? Direct labor is an important factor‚ which is more relevant on manufacture of a product.
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Departmental Overhead Rates; Underapplied or Overapplied Overhead 1. a. Predetermined Overhead rate= Estimated total manufacturing overhead costs Estimated total amount of allocation base | = $1‚440‚000 = 160% of direct labor costs $900‚000 direct labor costs | b. Hastings Job Direct Labor -Allocation Base × Plantwide Overhead Rate
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30) 1. Company A’s costs are mostly variable‚ whereas Company B’s costs are mostly fixed. When sales increase‚ which company will tend to realize the greatest increase in profits? Explain. 2. Crystal Telecom has budgeted the sales of its innovative mobile phone over the next four months as follows: Sales in Units July. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30‚000 August . . . . . . . . . . . 45‚000 September . . . . . . . . 60‚000 October . . . . . . . . . . 50‚000 The company is now in the
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Problems Chapter 4 Problem 4-26 Moravia Company processes and packages cream cheese. The following data have been compiled for the month of April. Conversion activity occurs uniformly throughout the production process. 1) Analysis of physical flow of units. 2) Calculation of equivalent units. 3) Computation of unit costs. 4) Analysis of total costs. 5) Build a Spreadsheet: Construct an Excel spreadsheet to solve all of the preceding requirements. Show how the solution will
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