ACT 4B FINAL Flashcards
Managerial Accounting
A profession that involves partnering in management decision making, devising planning and performance management systems, and providing expertise in financial reporting and control to assist management in the formulation and implementation of an organization’s strategy.
Planning(Functions of Management)
Setting goals and objectives for the company and deciding how to achieve them
Directing
Overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations
Controlling(Functions of Management)
Evaluating the results of business operations against the plan and making adjustments to keep the company pressing toward its goals
Financial Accounting
External users, such as creditors, stockholders, and government regulators.
Cost Objective
Anything for which managers want to know the cost
Direct Cost
A cost that can be traced to the cost object; meaning the company can readily identify or associate the cost with the cost object.
Indirect Cost
A cost that relates to the cost object but cannot be trace specifically to it.
Product cost
Incurred by manufacturers to produce their products or incurred by merchandisers to purchase their products.
Period Costs
Cost incurred by the company that do not get treated as inventory but, rather, are expensed immediately in the period in which they are incurred
Cost of leasing the retail location
Period Cost
Cost of manager’ and sales associates’ salaries
Period cost
Cost of merchandise purchased for resale
Product Cost
Cost of designing the operating the company’s website
Period Cost
Cost of shipping merchandise to the store
Product cost
Cost of providing free shipping to customers who buy product online
Period cost
Cost of utilities used in running the retail locations
Period Cost
Cost of import duties paid on merchandise purchased from overseas suppliers
Product Cost
Depreciation on store shelving and shopping carts
Period Cost
Prime Cost
Refer to the combination of DM and DL
Conversion Costs
Combination of DL and Manufacturing overhead
Controllable cost
In the long run, meaning management is able to influence or change them
Uncontrollable costs
Cost that cannot be changed or short run by management
Fixed
Stays constant in total over a wide range of activity levels
Variable Cost
Change in direct proportion to change in volume
Indirect materials, machine lubricants
Variable cost
Cost of property tax, insurance, straight-line depreciation
Fixed
Manufacturing Costs
DL+DM+ Manufacturing overhead= Product cost
Process costing: Pace spends $500,000 on purchasing, cleaning, and chopping the vegetables to make 1 million jars of Picante sauce during the month. The average cost per jar of the cleaning and chopping process is as follows:
The average cost to mix and bottle each jar of sauce is $0.25
$500,000/1000000 jars= $.50 per jar
$.50 + $.25= $0.75 per jar
Job Costing
fitness equipment, cross-trainers, bikes, Boeing(airplanes), custom-home builders (unique houses) high-end jewelers, sofas and chairs
Touch Gear had an estimated $1,000,000 of MOH for the year and 62,500 DL hours, resulting in a predetermined MOH rate of $16/DL hour. By the end of the year, the company had actually incurred $975,000 of MOH cost and used a total of 60,000 Dl hours on jobs. By how much had Touch Gear overallocated or under-allocated MOH for the year?
$1000,000/62,500 DL =$16/DL
Actual MOH 975,000
Allocated MOH- $16 X 60,000= 960,000
975,000-960,000= 15,000 Under allocated
Touch Gear had an estimated $1,085,000 of MOH for the year and 60,500 DL hours, resulting in a predetermined MOH rate of $18/DL hour. By the end of the year, the company had actually incurred $825,000 of MOH cost and used a total of 63,000 Dl hours on jobs. By how much had Touch Gear overallocated or under-allocated MOH for the year?
825,000-1134,000= ($309,000)
Assume Life Fitness’s managers had chosen direct labor cost as the MOH allocation base, rather than direct labor hours. Furthermore, assume management estimates $1,200,000 of the direct labor cost of the year
PMOH rate= $100,000/ $1,200,000 of DL cost= .8333 or 83.33% direct labor cost
MOH allocated to Job 603= 83.33% X $10,000 direct labor cost= $8,333
Unit level
activities and cost incurred for every unit.
Batch-level
activities and cost incurred for every batch, regardless of the number of units in the batch.
Product-level activities
activities and cost incurred for a particular product, regardless of the number of units or batches of the product produce
Activity Cost Driver
Number of Parts moved, Weight of parts moved, cubic volume of parts moved, time spent moving the parts
Dairymaid makes organic yogurt. The only ingredients, milk and bacteria cultures, are added at the very beginning of the fermentation process. At month end, Dairymaid has 100,000 cups of yogurt that are only 25% of the way through the fermentation process. Use the equivalent unit formula to answer the following:
a. How many equivalent units of direct materials are in ending work in process?
b. How many equivalent units of conversion cost are in ending work in process?
physical units % of completion = EQ
100,000 X 100%= 100,000 EU of DM
100,000 x 25%= 25,000 EQ of COC
At the end of October, Cranston Bottling’s mixing department had “Total costs to account for” of $739,731. Of this amount, $271,596 related to direct materials costs, while the remainder related to conversion costs. The department had 52,230 total equivalent units of direct materials and 45,450 total equivalent units of conversion costs for the month. Compute the cost per equivalent unit for direct materials and the cost per equivalent unit for conversion costs.
- Direct Materials Conversion Costs
Total cost (a) $271596 $468135
Equivalent units (b) 52230 45450
Cost per equivalent unit (a/b) $5.2 $10.3
*Total cost of conversion costs
= $739731 - $271596 = $468135
The Bruce Company is considering investing in a wind turbine to generate its own power. Any unused power wind turbine to generate its own power. Any uused power will be slod back to the local utility company. Between Cost savings and new revenues, the company expects to generate $750,000 per year in net clash inflows form the turbine. The turbine would cost $4 million and is expected to have a 20-year useful life with no residual value. Calculate the Accounting rate of return.
$750,000-[4,000,000-0/20yrs]/4,000,000=
13.75%
The Company is considering investing in a wind turbine to generate its own power. Any unsued power will be sold back to the local utility company. Between cost savings and new revenues, the company expects to generate $750,000 per year in net inflows from the turbine. The turbine would cost $4million and is expected to have a 20-year useful life with no residual value. Calculate the NPV using a 12% hurdle rate.
I= 12%, N= 20/7.469 X 750,000= 5,601,750-400,000=1,601750
The Bruce Company is considering investing in a wind turbine to generate its own power. Any unused power will be sold back to the local utility company. Between cost savings and new revenues, the company expects to generate $750,000 per year in net cash inflows from the turbine. The turbine would cost $4 million and is expected to have a 20-year useful life with no residual value. Calculate the internal rate of return (IRR).
4,000,000/750,000=5.33
NPV
Indicates wheter the asset will earn the company’s minimum require rate of return
Shows the excess or deficency of the asset’s present value of net cash inflows over the cost of the initial investment
IRR
Incorporates the time value of money and the asset’s net cash iflows over its entire life
Computes the project’s unique rate of return
No additional steps needed for capital rationing decsions
After a company has made an investment in a capital assets, what will it conduct to compare the actual net cash inflows to the project net cash inflows?
Post-audit
Examples of capital budgeting investments include all of the following except
Paying bonuses to the sales force
Customizing a fleet of new delivery vehicles
Installing a new computer system
building a factory
Which of the following affects the present value of an investment?
- The interest rate
- Number of time periods for the investment
- Whether the investment proceeds will be paid in one lump sum or in equal payments
- All of the above