Cost Accounting Flashcards

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What is Cost Accounting?

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"Cost Accounting is a component of GAAP that records Ending Inventory on the Balance Sheet for
o Direct Materials
o Direct Labor
o Work in Process
o Finished Goods

Cost Accounting also records for the Income Statement”

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What is the difference between Cost Accounting and Managerial Accounting?

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“Cost Accounting - External Focus- GAAP

Managerial Accounting - Internal Focus- Not GAAP”

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3
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What are Product Costs (aka Inventory Costs)?

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“Prime Costs

Conversion Costs”

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What are included in Prime Costs?

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“Direct Material USED - Have become part of the product or had a direct impact on the product

Direct Labor Used - Employees who worked on product and had direct impact”

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What is Factory Overhead?

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All factory costs except for DM and DL used in production- including Spoilage (except for abnormal spoilage- which is a period cost and not included in OH).

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What is included in Fixed Factory Overhead?

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“FFO : Estimated Costs / Normal Capacity

Uses Normal Activity

Examples of Fixed Factory OH: Depreciation (SL)- Utilities- Taxes

Under/Over-applied Fixed OH always goes to COGS”

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What is included in Variable Overhead?

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“VO : Estimated Activity / Actual Activity

Uses Actual Activity

Examples of Variable Factory OH: Deprecation (Units of Prod)- Indirect materials (supplies & insignificant items)- Indirect labor (factory foreman- janitors- machine maintenance)

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Where is Under/Over-applied Variable OH recorded?

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“If Immaterial - Goes to COGS

If Material - Goes to WIP- Finished Goods- or COGS- based on their Ending Balance”

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Where is Under/Over-applied Fixed OH recorded?

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It always goes to COGS

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What is indicated by a Debit balance in Actual Factory Overhead? How is it corrected?

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“Under-applied overhead.

If it’s Fixed OH- under-applied goes to COGS.

If it’s Variable OH- under-applied goes to COGS if immaterial- but is allocated to WIP- FG or COGS based on ending balances.”

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What is indicated by a Credit balance in Applied Factory Overhead? How is it corrected?

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“A credit balance indicates over-applied overhead.

If Fixed overhead- it is corrected from COGS.

If Variable overhead- it is corrected through COGS if immaterial- but if material overage is allocated to WIP- FG or COGS based on ending balances.”

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12
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Which variables are used to calculate Direct Material balances?

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“Beginning Balance
DR Net purchases (plus freight-in)
CR Direct Materials Used
: Ending balance (goes to BS)”

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What variables are used to calculated Work in Process (WIP)?

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“Beginning Balance (End Bal of Previous WIP)
DR Direct Materials Used
DR Direct Labor Used (Conversion Cost)
CR COGM
DR Factory Overhead Applied (Conversion Cost)
: Ending Balance (Goes to BS)”

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What variables are included in Finished Goods calculations?

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"Beginning Balance
DR COGM
\: COGAS (Cost of Goods Avail for Sale)
CR COGS
\: Ending Balance (Goes to BS)"
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15
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How does Freight In affect Cost Accounting calculations?

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“Inventory (Product) Cost

Part of DM Purchases”

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How does Freight Out affect Cost Accounting?

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“Selling (Period) Cost

Not part of inventory”

17
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When is Job-Order Costing used?

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“Used when costs are easily connected to a specific product or product line

Can also be applied to services

Calculation is the same as normal cost accounting - just use your T Accounts

  • DM to WIP to FG to COGS
  • You’re likely going to be solving for the last job in the queue”
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What is the Direct Method for allocating service department costs?

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No services allocated between service departments- even if they serve each other. Only allocate to product(s)

19
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What is the Step Method for allocating service department costs?

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Services can be allocated to both other service departments and the product(s)

20
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Under process costing- how are the units shipped calculated?

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“Beginning Inventory
+ Units Started
- Ending Inventory
: No. Units Shipped”

21
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Which two inventory methods are used under Process Costing?

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“FIFO

Weighted Average”

22
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What is another name for Process Costing?

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Equivalent Units of Production

23
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How will Equivalent Finished Units under FIFO compare to EFU under the Weighted Average method?

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EFU FIFO will always be LESS than EFU Weighted Avg (unless Beginning Inventory is Zero)

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How are Direct Materials calculated under the Weighted Average Method?

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Beginning Inventory + Current Costs / EFU WA

25
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How are Conversion Costs calculated under Weighted Average Method?

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Beginning Inventory + Current Costs / EFU WA

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How are Equivalent Finished Units calculated for Direct Materials?

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“Units Shipped
+ EI x % Complete DM
: EFU (Weighted Average Method)

  • Beginning Inventory x % Complete
    : EFU (FIFO)”
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How are Equivalent Finished Units calculated for Conversion Costs?

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“Units Shipped
+ EI x % Complete CC
: EFU (Weighted Average)

  • Beginning Inventory x % Complete
    : EFU (FIFO)”
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How are Direct Materials calculated under the FIFO method?

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“Current Costs / EFU FIFO

Note: FIFO method uses Current Period costs only and ignores Beginning Inventory”

29
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How are Conversion Costs calculated under the FIFO method?

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“Current Costs / EFU FIFO

FIFO method uses Current Period costs only and ignores Beginning Inventory”

30
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How is WIP calculated?

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"Beginning balance (DM- DL- OH)
\+ Current Costs (DM- DL- OH)
- COGM (Goes to Finished Goods)
\+ DM EFU x Cost per DM EFU
\+ CC EFU x Cost per CC EFU
\: Ending WIP"
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How do period costs and product costs relate to net sales- gross margin and operating income?

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"Net Sales 
- Product Costs
\: Gross Margin
- Period Costs
\: Operating Income"
32
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What is the focus of Activity Based Costing (ABC)?

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“Focuses on eliminating non-value-added activities for poor quality and inventory and things customers don’t want or don’t care about

Inventory is expensive to store and storing something is not a value-added expenditure

Uses Cost Pools - Different departments can have different OH rates

Uses Several OH rates based on Activity - Cost Pool / Cost Driver”

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How do Cost Pools and Allocations compare under ABC versus traditional costing system?

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Cost Pools and Allocations increase compared to a traditional costing system

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What is Backflush Costing?

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“Connected to Just-in-Time Production- which is part of Activity-Based Costing and Total Quality Management (TQM)

  • Works backward to flush out COGS
  • Mostly GAAP”
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What are the characteristics of By-Products?

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“Usually immaterial and common costs aren’t allocated to them
Low Market Value
Can be valued at NRV
Can be treated as a contra expense and netted against COGS - Can be treated as a contra sale and netted against Sales
Recognition rules are very flexible with valuing and classifying by-products”

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What are Cost Functions?

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“Measure how costs change relative to activity levels

High-Low Method

Change in Cost (High-Low pts) / Change in Activity (High-Low pts)”