ACCT 434 (Devry) Flashcards
ACCT 434 Entire Course Advanced Cost Management
ACCT 434 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions
ACCT 434 Week 1 Quiz Activity Based Costing
ACCT 434 Week 2 Master Budget Flexible Budgets
ACCT 434 Week 3 Cost Behavior Decision Making Quality
ACCT 434 Week 4 Midterm Exam
ACCT 434 Week 5 Pricing Decisions Management Control Systems
ACCT 434 Week 6 Customer Profitability Capital Budgeting
ACCT 434 Week 7 Quality Control Inventory Management
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ACCT 434 Week 1 Quiz Activity Based Costing
- Question : (TCO 1) The average cost data are for In-Sync Fixtures Company’s (a retailer) only two product lines, Marblette and Italian Marble.
Marblette Italian Marble
Purchase volume 20,000 1,000
Purchase cost per unit $50 $250
Shipments received 12 12
Hours used per shipment * 5 3
* These data were accumulated after a careful activity analysis.
Currently, In-Sync Fixtures uses a traditional costing system with indirect costs allocated using purchased cost of goods as a basis. In-Sync Fixtures is considering refining the allocation of its receiving costs of $40,000. It realizes that the Italian Marble is heavier and requires more care than the Marblette but that the Marblette comes in larger volume.
Which statement can be made using the results of the activity analysis performed by In-Sync Fixtures? - Question : (TCO 1) The allocation of indirect costs in an activity-based costing system
- Question : (TCO 1) Evaluating customer reaction of the trade-off of giving up some features of a product for a lower price would best fit which category of management decisions under activity-based management?
- Question : (TCO 1) A company produces three products; if one product is overcosted then
- Question : (TCO 1) To set realistic selling prices
- Question : (TCO 1) Different products consume different proportions of manufacturing overhead costs because of differences in all of the following EXCEPT
- Question : (TCO 1) A well-designed, activity-based cost system helps managers make better decisions because information derived from an ABC analysis
- Question : (TCO 1) Companies use ABC system information to
- Question : (TCO 1) For service organizations that bill customers at a predetermined average rate, activity-based cost systems can help to
- Question : (TCO 1) Danielle Company produces a special spray nozzle. The budgeted indirect total cost of inserting the spray nozzle is $180,000. The budgeted number of nozzles to be inserted is 60,000. What is the budgeted indirect cost allocation rate for this activity?
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ACCT 434 Week 1 to 7 All Discussion Questions
Week 1 DQ 1 ABC Journey
Week 1 DQ 2 Workout Room
Week 2 DQ 1 Flexible versus Static Budgets
Week 2 DQ 2 Workout Room
Week 3 DQ1 Relevant Costs
Week 3 DQ 2 Workout Room
Week 4 DQ 1 Accounting for Primary Products
Week 4 DQ 2 Workout Room
Week 5 DQ 1 Pricing Decision
Week 5 DQ 2 Workout Room
Week 6 DQ 1 Evaluating Managers
Week 6 DQ 2 Workout Room
Week 7 DQ 1 Quality and Performance
Week 7 DQ 2 Workout Room
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ACCT 434 Week 2 Master Budget Flexible Budgets
1.Question :(TCO 2) Operating budgets and financial budgets
2.Question :(TCO 2) To gain the benefits of budgeting, ________ must understand and support the budget.
3.Question :
(TCO 2) Which budget is not necessary to prepare the budgeted balance sheet?
4.Question :(TCO 2) A feature of a standard-costing system is that the costs of every product or service planned to be worked on during the period can be computed at the start of that period. This feature of standard costing makes it possible to
5.Question :(TCO 2) An unfavorable variance indicates that
6.Question :(TCO 2) Which of the following statements is true about overhead cost variance analysis using activity-based costing?
7.Question :(TCO 2) Overhead costs have been increasing due to all of the following except
8.Question :(TCO 2) Katie Enterprises reports the year-end information from 20X8 as follows: Sales (70,000 units) $560,000; Cost of goods sold 210,000; Gross margin 350,000; Operating expenses 200,000; Operating income $150,000. Katie is developing the 20X9 budget. In 20X9, the company would like to increase selling prices by 4%, and as a result expects a decrease in sales volume of 10%. All other operating expenses are expected to remain constant. Assume that COGS is a variable cost and that operating expenses are a fixed cost. What is budgeted sales for 20X9?
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ACCT 434 Week 3 Cost Behavior Decision Making Quality
1.
Question :
(TCO 3) Dougherty Company employs 20 individuals. Eight employees are paid $12 per hour and the rest are salaried employees paid $3,000 a month. How would total costs of personnel be classified?
2.
Question :
(TCO 3) For January, the cost components of a picture frame include $0.35 for the glass, $0.65 for the wooden frame, and $0.80 for assembly. The assembly desk and tools cost $400. A total of 1,000 frames is expected to be produced in the coming year. What cost function best represents these costs?
3.
Question :
(TCO 3) Which cost estimation method uses a formal mathematical method to develop cost functions based on past data?
4.
Question :
(TCO 3) Penny’s TV and Appliance Store is a small company that has hired you to perform some management advisory services. The following information pertains to 20X8 operations: Sales (2,000 televisions) $900,000; Cost of goods sold $400,000; Store manager’s salary per year $70,000; Operating costs per year $157,000; Advertising and promotion per year $15,000; Commissions (4% of sales) $36,000. What are the estimated total costs if Penny’s expects to sell 3,000 units next year?
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ACCT 434 Week 4 Midterm Exam
1.Question : (TCO1) ABC systems create
2.Question : (TCO 1) Merriamn Company provides the following ABC costing information: Activities Total Costs Activity-cost drivers Account inquiry hours $400,000 10,000 hours Account billing lines $280,000 4,000,000 lines Account verification accounts $150,000 40,000 accounts Correspondence letters $ 50,000 http://www.homeworktab.com/acct-434-devry/acct-434-week-4-midterm-exam
ACCT 434 Week 5 Pricing Decisions Management Control Systems
- Question : (TCO 7) Major influences of competitors, costs, and customers on pricing decisions are factors of
- Question : (TCO 7) The first step in implementing target pricing and target costing is
- Question : (TCO 7) The markup percentage is usually higher if the cost base used is
- Question : (TCO 7) An understanding of life-cycle costs can lead to
- Question : (TCO 7) Pritchard Company manufactures a product that has a variable cost of $30 per unit. Fixed costs total $1,500,000, allocated on the basis of the number of units produced. Selling price is computed by adding a 20% markup to full cost. How much should the selling price be per unit for 300,000 units?
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ACCT 434 Week 6 Customer Profitability Capital Budgeting
1.Question :
(TCO 9) To guide cost allocation decisions,the benefits-received criterion
2.Question :
(TCO 9) A challenge to using cost-benefit criteria for allocating costs isthat
3.Question :
(TCO 9) The MOST likely reason for NOT allocating corporate costs todivisions include that
4.Question :
(TCO 9)Identifying homogeneous cost pools
5.Question :
(TCO 9) The Hassan Corporation has an electric mixer division and an electric lamp division. Of a $20,000,000 bond issuance, the electric mixer division used $14,000,000 and the electric lamp division used $6,000,000 for expansion. Interest costs on the bond totaled $1,500,000 for the year. What amount of interest costs should be allocated to the electric lamp division?
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ACCT 434 Week 7 Quality Control Inventory Management
- Question : (TCO 11)The four cost categories in a cost of quality program are
- Question : (TCO 11) ________ is a formal means ofdistinguishing between random and nonrandom variation in an operatingprocess.
- Question : (TCO 11) Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in managingbottlenecks under the theory of constraints?
- Question : (TCO 11)Scrap is an example of
- Question : (TCO 11) Regal Products has a budget of $900,000 in 20X6 for prevention costs. If it decides to automate a portion of its prevention activities, it will save $60,000 in variable costs. The new method will require $18,000 in training costs and $120,000 in annual equipment costs. Management iswilling to adjust the budget for an amount up to the cost of the new equipment. The budgeted production level is 150,000 units. Appraisal costs for the year are budgeted at $600,000. The new prevention procedures will save appraisal costs of $30,000. Internal failure costs average $15 per failed unit of finished goods. The internal failure rate is expected to be 3%of all completed items. The proposed changes will cut the internal failure rate by one-third. Internal failure units are destroyed. External failure costs average $54 per failed unit. The company’s average external failuresaverage 3% of units sold. The new proposal will reduce this rate by 50%. Assume all units produced are sold and there are no ending inventories. How much will appraisal costs change assuming the new prevention methods reduce material failures by 40% in the appraisal phase?
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