Cost Concepts Semester II Basic Terms • Cost is the amount of expenditure‚ actual (incurred) or notional (attributable)‚ relating to a specific thing or activity. The specific thing or activity may be a product‚ job‚ service‚ process or any other activity • Expenses are expired costs‚ incurred and totally used up in generation of revenue • Loss is lost cost. The term ‘loss’ is used to describe mainly two accounting events. In traditional financial accounting it is used to denote a situation
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Briefly outline some of the main models of oligopoly in which firms compete according to output. Hence‚ discuss the contention that non-collusion is the inevitable outcome of oligopoly. (2000 words) ‘Oligopoly is an industry structure characterized by a few firms producing all‚ or most‚ of the output of some good that may or may not be differentiated.book’ An oligopoly lies somewhere in between a monopoly (only one seller) and competition (many sellers). Firms are said to exhibit ‘strong mutual
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Cost Behavior Cost behavior is term for describing whether a cost changes when the level of output changes. The cost can vary proportionately with the changes in the level of activity or unaffected by changes in the level of activity. Costs can be variable‚ fixed‚ or mixed. A cost that does not change in total as output changes is a fixed cost. A variable cost‚ on the other hand‚ increases in total with an increase in output and decreases in total with a decrease in output. Understanding how costs
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COST-VOLUME PROFIT (CVP) ANALYSIS This is a technique used for planning short-term run profits by finding the relationship between profits and factors that influence profits. The following factors are taken to be influencing profits:- • Selling price • Variable cost of production • Fixed costs • Activity level (production and sales units) Profit planning is based on break-even analysis and can be worked out using either; a) Algebraic method b) Contribution method c) Break-even
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Conceptual Framework Cost Accounting Cost accounting‚ as a tool of management‚ provides management with detailed records of the costs relating to products‚ operations or functions. Cost accounting refers to the process of determining and accumulating the cost of some particular product or activity. It also covers classification‚ analysis and interpretation of costs. The cost so determined and accumulated may be the estimated future costs for planning purposes‚ or actual (historical) costs for evaluating
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MATHEMATICS (Three hours) (Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutes for only reading the paper. They must NOT start writing during this time.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Section A - Answer Question 1 (compulsory) and five other questions. Section B and Section C - Answer two questions from either Section B or Section C. All working‚ including rough work‚ should be done on the same sheet as‚ and adjacent
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Classification of Cost Cost may be classified into different categories depending upon the purpose of classification. Some of the important categories in which the costs are classified are as follows: 1. Fixed‚ Variable and Semi-Variable Costs The cost which varies directly in proportion with every increase or decrease in the volume of output or production is known as variable cost. Some of its examples are as follows: • Wages of laborers • Cost of direct material • Power The cost which does
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Managerial Economics – Trial Exam – Theoretical Questions Part I: Indicate whether each of the following statements is True (T) or False (F). Comment. (5 Questions‚ Choose 4) A The law of diminishing returns takes effect‚ when a firm’s both marginal product and average product decline after the latter reaching its maximum. False: The law of diminishing returns takes effect when MP reaches its maximum value and starts to diminish “decline”; then‚ MP equals AP when the latter reaches its maximum
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Variable costs are those costs that increase as the output the restaurant increases. As example‚ assume for the Teen Burger Direct Materials cost $1.50 per burger. A day with one thousand burgers sold would cost of $1500 dollars. In comparison‚ a day with two thousand burgers sold would cost $3000 dollars. While the cost per Teen Burger remains constant the total cost per day varies with the output each given day. Electricity costs would increase in the same fashion as each time a burger is cooked
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Cost Accounting Manual 2013 STUDY NOTES FOR COST ACCOUNTING BY ATAUSH SHAFI Last Updated on: Tuesday‚ January 01 01‚ 2013 1 © For Suggestions & Feedbacks‚ contact: ATAUSH SHAFI (ataushshafi@gmail.com) Cost Accounting Manual 2013 Table of Contents CIMA OFFICIAL TERMINOLOGY .................................................................................... 3 COST OF GOODS SOLD FORMULE................................................................................ 13 COST CLASSIFICATION ...
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