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Managerial Accounting And Cost Concepts

Subject : business-skills
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1. The amount remaining from sales revenues after variable expenses have been deducted. (This amount contributes toward covering fixed expenses and then towards profits for the period.)






2. Whenever a straight line is a reasonable approximation for the relation between cost and activity.






3. Provides managers with an income statement that clearly distinguishes between fixed and variable costs and therefore aids in planning - controlling - and decision making.






4. A report that details prevention costs - appraisal costs - and the costs of internal and external failures.






5. A difference in revenues between any two alternatives.






6. Contains both variable and fixed cost elements. (Also known as semi-variable costs)






7. The materials that go into the final product.






8. The sum of direct labor cost and manufacturing overhead cost. (Refers to converting the materials into the finished product.)






9. The potential benefit that is given up when one alternative is selected over another.






10. Cost that are incurred when a product or service that is defective is delivered to a customer.






11. All costs involved in acquiring or making a product.






12. Change in cost/ change in activity.






13. The range of activity within which the assumption that cost behavior is strictly linear is reasonably valid.






14. Labor costs that cannot be physically traced to particular products or that can be traced only at great cost and inconvenience.






15. (Also known as the 'Y' variable); The amount of cost incurred during a period depends on the level of activity for the period.






16. Cost that are incurred to keep defects from occurring.






17. A cost which varies - in total - in direct proportion to changes in level of activity.






18. Quality control requirements issued by the International Organization for Standardization that relate to products sold in European Countries.






19. The relative proportion of each type of cost in an organization.






20. Method based on the rise-over-run formula for the slope of a straight line.






21. Costs that usually arise from annual decisions by management to spend on certain fixed cost items. (Also known as 'managed fixed costs').






22. (Y2-Y1)/(X2-X1)






23. Include all costs associated with the general management of an organization rather than with manufacturing or selling.






24. Consists of labor costs that can be easily (i.e. physically and conveniently) traced to individual units of product.






25. Small groups of employees that meet on a regular basis to discuss ways of improving quality.






26. A cost that is incurred to support a number of cost objects - but cannot be traced to them individually.






27. Product costs that were initially assigned to inventories.






28. Costs that are incurred to prevent defective products from falling into the hands of customers or that are incurred as a result of defective units.






29. A difference in costs between any two alternatives.






30. A cost that can be easily and conveniently traced to a specified cost object.






31. A measure of whatever causes the incurrence of a variable cost.






32. A cost that cannot be easily and conveniently traced to a specified cost object.






33. Costs that are incurred to identify defective products before the products are shipped to customers.






34. Include all costs that are incurred to secure customer orders and get the finished product to the customer.






35. Beginning merchandise inventory + Purchase - Ending merchandise inventory






36. Materials that are included as part of manufacturing overhead.






37. An approach to cost analysis that involves a detailed analysis of what cost behavior should be - based on an industrial engineer's evaluation of the production methods to be used - the materials specifications - labor requirements - equipment usage -






38. A method that uses all of the date to separate a mixed cost into its fixed and variable cost components.






39. The third element of manufacturing cost - includes all manufacturing costs except direct materials and direct labor.






40. Refers to how a cost reacts to changes in the level of activity.






41. Costs that are incurred as a result of identifying defective products before they are shipped to the customers.






42. A charting technique used to monitor the quality of work being done in a workstation for the purpose of immediately correcting any problems.






43. The degree to which a product or service meets or exceeds its design specifications and is free of defects or other problems that mar its appearance or degrade its performance.






44. An account is classified as either variable of fixed based on the analyst's prior knowledge of how the cost in the account behaves.






45. Represent organizational investments with a multiyear planning horizon that can't be significantly reduced even for short period of time without making fundamental changes.






46. Refers to an increase in cost from one alternative to another.






47. All the costs that are not product costs.






48. A cost that remains constant - in total - regardless of changes in the level of activity.






49. (Also known as the 'X' variable); Refers to activity because it causes variations in the cost.






50. Anything for which cost data are desired-including products - customers - jobs - and organizational sub-units.