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Managerial Accounting And Cost Concepts

Subject : business-skills
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1. Small groups of employees that meet on a regular basis to discuss ways of improving quality.






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






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






4. (1.)Selling costs (2.)Administrative costs






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






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






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






8. 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 -






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






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






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






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






13. 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.)






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






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






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






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






18. Change in cost/ change in activity.






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






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






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






22. A cost that has already been incurred and that cannot be changed by any decision made now or in the future.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. All the costs that are not product costs.






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






35. A difference in costs between any two alternatives.






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






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






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






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






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






41. Materials that become an integral part of the finished product and whose costs can be conveniently traced to the finished product.






42. Beginning merchandise inventory + Purchase - Ending merchandise inventory






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






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






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






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






47. The materials that go into the final product.






48. A difference in revenues between any two alternatives.






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






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