Cost Accounting Role Cost accounting is valuable to an organization if it significantly improves the decision making process within the organization by providing accurate and timely input regarding the cost behavior in organizations. Generally based on standard accounting practices‚ cost accounting is one of the tools that managers utilize to determine what type and how much expenses is involved with maintaining the current business model. At the same time‚ the principles of cost accounting
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ADVANTAGES OF COST ACCOUNTING 1. Fixation of responsibility: Whenever a cost center is established‚ it implies establishing a kind of relationship between superior and subordinates. Thus responsibilities are fixed on every individual who is concerned with incurrence of cost. 2. Measures economic performance: By applying cost control techniques such as budgetary control and standard costing it helps in assisting the performance of business. 3. Fixation of price: By providing cost data it
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EntertainmentNow.com Prepared for Dr. Lucian Zelazny Department of Accounting McCoy College of Business 601 University Drive San Marcos‚ Texas 78666 Prepared by Veronica Piña Rupinder Singh Ashley Vollmer April 23‚ 2013 EntertainmentNow.com Case Overview EntertainmentNow.com is considered one of the world’s leading Internet retailers of entertainment products that sells an array of books‚ music‚ videos‚ and DVD’s‚ toys‚ and small electronics on the company’s International website
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SOAL LATIHAN CHAPTER 18 ASISTENSI COST ACCOUNTING UNIVERSITAS BAKRIE 1. 18-16 The following data‚ in physical units‚ describe a grinding process for January : WIP‚ beginning 19‚000 Started during current period 150‚000 To account for 169‚000 Spoiled units 12‚000 Good units completed and transferred out 132‚000 WIP‚ending 25‚000 Accounted for 169‚000 Inspection occurs at the 100% completion stage. Normal spoilage is 5 % of the good units passing inspection
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Allocate joint product costs according to the benefits-received approaches and the relative market value approaches. 3. Describe methods of accounting for by-products. 4. Explain why joint cost allocations may be misleading in management decision making. 5. Discuss why joint production is seldom found in service industries. This chapter describes the joint production processes and their outputs—joint products and by-products. Several methods are developed to allocate joint costs to joint products
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Question 1: Define accounting. Answer : Accounting is a process of identifying the events of financial nature‚ recording them in Journal‚ classifying in their respective ledgers‚ summarising them in Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet and communicating the results to the users of such information‚ viz. owner/s‚ government‚ creditors‚ investors etc. According to the American Institute of Certified Accountants‚ 1941‚ “Accounting is an art of recording‚ classifying and summarising in a significant
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Define cost object and give three examples Cost object is defined as “Anything for which a separate measurement of cost is desired”. The term cost object and cost objective is synonymous. Cost object may refer to a process‚ a cost centre‚ and cost units. Cost unit is a quantitative unit of product or service in relation to which cost are ascertained. Cost centre is a location‚ function or item of equipment in respect of which cost are ascertained. 2. Define cost accumulation
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Chapter 5: Cost Behavior: Analysis and Use As we shall see in later chapters‚ the ability to predict how costs respond to changes in activity is critical for making decisions‚ controlling operations‚ and evaluating performance. Three major classifications of costs were discussed in this chapter—variable‚ fixed‚ and mixed. Mixed costs consist of variable and fixed elements and can be expressed in equation form as Y = a + bX‚ where X is the activity‚ Y is the cost‚ a is the fixed cost element‚ and
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COSTING 4-1 Cost pool––a grouping of individual indirect cost items. Cost tracing––the assigning of direct costs to the chosen cost object. Cost allocation––the assigning of indirect costs to the chosen cost object. Cost-allocation base––a factor that links in a systematic way an indirect cost or group of indirect costs to cost objects. 4-2 In a job-costing system‚ costs are assigned to a distinct unit‚ batch‚ or lot of a product or service. In a process-costing system‚ the cost of a product
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Prime Cost YES.....Conversion Cost NO. Prime Cost YES.....Conversion Cost YES. Prime Cost NO....Conversion Cost NO. Prime Cost NO.....Conversion Cost YES. | 2. (TCO A) The costs of staffing and operating the accounting department at Central Hospital would be considered by the Department of Surgery to be (Points : 6) | direct costs. sunk costs. incremental costs. None of the above | 3. (TCO A) The cost of lubricants
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