Accounting Exam 4 – Flashcards

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The cost of a manufactured product generally consists of which of the following costs?
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Direct labor cost, direct materials cost, and factory overhead.
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The cost of materials entering directly into the manufacturing process is classified as:
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Direct materials cost
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Which of the following is an example of a direct materials cost for an automobile manufacturer?
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Cost of interior upholstery
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If the cost of direct materials is a small portion of total production cost, it may be classified as part of:
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Factory overhead cost
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The cost of wages paid to employees directly involved in the manufacturing process in converting materials into finished product is classified as:
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Direct labor cost
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Which of the following is FALSE in regards to direct materials for an auto manufacturer?
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Small plastic clips to hold on door panels, because they become part of the auto, must be accounted for as direct materials
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Which of the following is an example of direct labor cost for an airplane manufacturer?
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Cost of wages of assembly worker
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Which of the following is considered a part of factory overhead cost?
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Depreciation of factory buildings
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The following are all product costs EXCEPT:
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Sales and administrative expenses
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Which of the following is an example of a factory overhead cost?
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Factory heating and lighting cost
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Which of the following items would NOT be classified as a part of factory overhead?
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Direct labor used
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Which of the following items would NOT be classified as part of factory overhead?
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Direct labor used
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Compute factory overhead from the following costs: Depreciation on Factory buildings: $20,000 Depreciation on office Equipment: 20,000 Direct materials used: 70,000 Indirect labor: 3,000
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$23,000`
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Which of the following manufacturing costs is an indicated cost of producing a product?
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Oil lubricants used for factory machinery
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Which of the following are two main types of cost accounting systems for manufacturing operations?
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Job order cost and process cost system
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For which of the following businesses would the job order cost system be appropriate?
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Custom cabinet manufacturer
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Which of the following would most likely use a job order costing system?
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a swimming pool installer
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For which of the following businesses would the process cost system be appropriate?
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Lumber mill
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Which of the following costs are NOT included in finished goods inventory?
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Company president's salary
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The document authorizing the issuance of materials from the storeroom is the:
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Materials requisition
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Which of the following products probably would be manufactured using a job order costing system?
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Wedding invitations
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In a job order costing system, the effect of the flow of direct materials into production is to:
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Increase work in progress, decrease materials inventory
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A summary of the materials requisitions completed during a period serves as the basis for transferring the cost of materials from the materials account to:
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Work in progress and factory overhead
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Job order costing and process costing are:
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cost accounting systems
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In a job order cost accounting system, when goods that have been ordered are received, the receiving department personnel count, inspect the goods, and complete a:
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receiving report
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The amount of time spent by each employee and the labor cost incurred for each individual job or for factory overhead are recorded on:
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Time tickets
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Which of the following is NOT true about why a service firm will use the job order costing system?
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To determine department costs within the firm
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The basis for recording direct and indirect labor costs incurred is a summary of the period's:
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Time tickets
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Recording direct labor costs in a job order cost accounting system:
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increases work in progress, increases wages payable
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Increases in work in progress account occur when:
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direct labor is recorded from the time sheet
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At the end of the fiscal year, the balance of Factory Overhead is small. This balance would normally be:
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Transferred to Cost of Goods Sold
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Each account in the work in progress subsidiary ledger is called a:
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Job cost sheet
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The recording of the factory labor incurred for general factory use would increase:
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Factory Overhead
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The recording of the application of factory overhead costs to jobs would decease:
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Factory Overhead
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The recording of jobs completed would increase:
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Finished goods
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The recording of the hobs completed would decrease:
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work in progress
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The recording of the jobs shipped and customers billed would increase:
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cost of goods sold
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The finished goods account is the controlling account for the:
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Stock ledger
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The Cranford Company forecasts that the total overhead for the current year will be $15,000,000 and that the total machine hours will be 200,000 hours. Year to date, the actual overhead is $8,000,000 and the actual machine hours are 100,000 hours. If the Crawford Company uses a predetermined overhead rate based on machine hours for applying overhead, what is the overhead rate?
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$75 per machine.
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Bell Manufacturers Inc. has estimated total factory overhead costs of $60,000 and 10,000 direct labor ours for the current fiscal year. If job number 117 incurred 2,000 direct labor hours, the work in progress account will be increased and factory overhead will be decreased for:
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$12,000
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When job 771 was completed, direct materials totaled $3,000; direct labor, $3,500 and factory overhead, $1,500. Units produced totaled 1,000. Unit costs are:
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$8
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Cambridge Corporation applied factory overhead costs of $205,000 to production during the current year. At the end of the year, total overspilled factory overhead is $17,000. What was the amount of actual factory overhead cost incurred during the year?
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$188,000
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Hudson, Inc. has estimated total factory overhead costs of $400,000 and 20,000 direct labor hours for the current fiscal year. If direct labor hours for Job N41 total 1,500, calculate applied factory overhead applied to this job:
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$30,000
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Hudson, Inc. has estimated total factory overhead costs of $400,000 and 20,000 direct labor hours for the current fiscal year. If direct labor hours for the year total 18,000 and actual factory overhead totals $350,000, what is the amount of overspilled or underpaid overhead for the year?
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$10,000 overapplied
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The sale of a finished good on account:
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Increases cost of goods sold, decreases finished goods, increases accounts receivable, and increases sales.
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Products costs include all of the following EXCEPT:
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CEO salary
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Which of the following would most likely be a period cost?
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Salary of telephone receptionist in the sales office?
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Period costs include all of the following EXCEPT:
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Wages of an assembly worker
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The period costs of a textbook printer would include:
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Advertising expenses
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Which types of inventories does a manufacturing business report on its balance sheet?
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Direct materials inventory, work in progress inventory, and finished goods inventory
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Costs that are treated as assets until the product is sold are called:
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product costs
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The Crawford Company forecasts that total overhead for the current year will be $12,000,000 and that total machine hours will be 200,000 hours. Year to date, the actual overhead is $4,000,000 and the actual machine hours are 100,000 hours. If the Crawford Company uses a predetermined overhead rate based on machine hours for applying overhead, as of this point in time (year to date) the overhead is over/under applied by:
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2,000,000 over
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At the end of the year, overhead applied was $35,000,000. Actual overhead was $35,000,000. Closing over/under applied overhead into cost of goods sold would cause net income to:
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Decrease by $800,000
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Which of the following would most likely be a product cost?
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Drill bits for a drill press used in the plant assembly area
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For a manufacturing business, inventory that is in the process of being manufacturer is referred to as:
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Work in progress inventory
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Job cost sheets can provide information to managers for all but which of the following?
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Utilities, managerial salaried, and depreciation of computers in the corporate office.
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A difference in quantity of materials used on two comparable jobs may be caused by:
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All of these: -inadequately trained employees -poor quality materials -employee carelessness
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Which of the following would probably NOT be found in the accounting system of a service provider?
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Finished goods ledger
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In a job order cost accounting system used by a service business, which of the following items would normally NOT be included as part of overhead?
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Direct labor
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The direct labor an overhead costs of providing services to clients are accumulated in:
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Work in progress
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Just-in time processing is a business philosophy that focuses on reducing time and cost and eliminating poor quality. One of the ways in which this is accomplished in manufacturing and non manufacturing processes is by:
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Combining processing functions into work centers and cross-training workers to preform more than one function
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A disadvantage of maintaining high inventory levels includes:
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Both hiding underlying production problems and the fact that maintaining inventory is wasteful and unnecessary
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Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding lead time?
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Reducing nonvalue-added lead time reduces costs and improves the speed of production
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Just-in-time manufacturing uses which of the following techniques?
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Organizes the plant in such a way as to reduce product movement from station to station.
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Pull manufacturing is driven by which of the following?
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Customer demand
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Just-in-time manufacturing practices include all of the following EXCEPT:
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Emphasizing push manufacturing to ensure inventory levels that will provide a buffer against production problems
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An activity-based costing system allocates factory overhead rates to products or services using:
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The cost of activities based on an activity rate times the number of activity-based usage quantities
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Heedy Winery accumulates the costs incurred in the labeling process in an activity cost pool. Costs for the labelling process are estimated to be $320,000 for the coming year, and the winery expects to generate 640,000 labels. Production for its top-selling wine is estimate at 160,000 bottles. How much overhead from the labeling process will be allocated to this particular variety of wine?
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$80,000
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Cost behavior refers to the manner in which:
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A cost changes as the related activity changes
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Costs that remain constant on a per-unit level as the level of activity changes are called:
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variable costs
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Which of the following graphs illustrates the behavior of a total fixed cost?
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Graph 1
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Which of the following costs is an example of a cost that remains the same in total as the number of units produced changes?
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Salary of a factory supervisor
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Which of the following describes the behavior of the variable cost per unit?
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remains constant with changes in production
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which of the following activity bases would be the most appropriate for food cost of a hospital?
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number of patients who stay in a hospital
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Which of the following activity bases would be the most appropriate for gasoline costs of a delivery service such as UPS?
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Number of miles driven
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Costs that vary in total in direct proportion to changes in an activity level are called:
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variable costs
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Which of the following is an example of a cost that varies in total as the number of units produced changes?
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Direct materials cost
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Which of the following is an example of a cost that varies in total as the number of units produced changes?
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electricity per KWH to operate factory equipment
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As production increases, what would you expect to happen to fixed costs per unit?
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Decrease
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Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding fixed and variable costs?
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Fixed costs are fixed in total, and variable costs are fixed per unit
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Which of the following graphs illustrates the behavior of a total variable cost?
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Graph 3
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The graph of a variable cost when plotted against its related activity base appears as a:
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straight line
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Which of the following describes the behavior of the fixed cost per unit?
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Decreases with increasing production
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Knowing how costs behave is useful to management for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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predicting customer demand
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which of the following graphs illustrates the nature of a mixed cost?
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Graph 2
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Which of the following costs is a mixed cost?
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Rental costs of $5,000 per month plus $.30 per machine hour of use
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As production increases, what should happen to the variable costs per unit?
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Stay the same
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Winston Co. manufactures office furniture. During the most productive month of the year, 3,500 desks were manufactured at a total cost of $84,400. In its slowest month, the company made 1,100 desks at a cost of $46,000. Using the high-low method of cost estimation, total fixed costs are:
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$28,400
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For purposes of analysis, mixed costs are generally:
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Separated into their variable and fixed cost components
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Tucker Co. manufactures office furniture. During the most productive month of the year, 3,600 desks were manufactured at a total cost of $192,999. In its slowest month, the company made 1,200 desks at a cost of $72,000. Using the high-low method of cost estimation, total fixed costs per month are:
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$12,000
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The systematic examination of the relationships among selling prices, volume of sales and production, costs, expenses, and profits is termed:
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cost-volume-profit analysis
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In cost-volume-profit analysis, all costs are classified into the following 2 categories:
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variable costs and fixed costs
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the contribution margin ratio is
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the same as the profit-margin ratio
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which ratio indicates the percentage of each sales dollar that is available to cover fixed costs and to provide a profit?
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contribution margin ratio
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variable costs as a percentage of sales for Leamon Inc. are 74%, current sales are $600,000, and fixed costs are $110,000. How much will operating income change if sales increase by $50,000?
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$12,500
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If sales are $820,000 variable costs are 68% of sales, and operating income is $260,000, what is the contribution margin ratio?
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32%
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A firm operated at 90% of capacity for the past year during which fixed costs were $320,000, variable costs were 60% of sales, and sales were $1,200,000. Operating profit was:
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$160,000
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If sales are $200,000, variable costs are 56% of sales, and operating income is $30,000, what is the contribution margin ratio?
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44%
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Wiles Inc.'s unit selling price is $40, the unit variable costs are $30, fixed costs are $135,000 and current sales are 10,000 units. How much will operating income change if sales increases by 5,000 units?
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$50,000 increase
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If fixed costs are $850,000 and variable costs are 70% of sales, what is the break-even point (in dollars)?
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$2,833,333
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If fixed costs are $250,000, the unit selling price is $105 and the unit variable costs are $65, what is the break-even sales (in units)?
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6,250 units
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If fixed costs are $750,000 and variable costs are 55% of sales, what is the break-even-point (in dollars)?
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$1,666,667
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If fixed costs are $350,000 the unit selling price is $75, and the unit variable costs are $30, what is the break even sales (in units)
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7,778 units
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If fixed costs are $810,000 the unit selling price is $60 and the unit variable costs are $48, what is the break-even-sales (in units) if the variable costs re increased by $2?
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81,000 units
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If fixed costs are $810,000, the unit selling price is $60, and the unit variable costs are $48, what is the break-even sales (in units) if fixed costs are reduced by $50,000?
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63,333 units
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If fixed costs are $450,000, the unit selling price is $75, and the unit variable costs are $50 what are the old and new break even sales (in units) if the unit selling price increases by $5?
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18,000 units and 15,000 units
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Snower Corporation sells product G for $150 per unit, the variable cost per unit is $105, the fixed costs are $720,000 and Snower is in th 25% corporate tax bracket. Where are the sales (in dollars) required to earn a new income (after tax) of $40,000?
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$2,577,778
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If fixed costs are $850,000 and the unit contribution margin is $90, what amount od units must be sold in order to have a zero profit
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9,445
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if fixed costs are $600,000 and the unit contribution margin is $12, what amount of units must be sold in order to realize an operating income of $100,000?
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58,334
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If fixed costs are $500,000 and the unit contribution margin is $40, what is the break-even-point in units if fixed costs are reduced by $80,000?
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10,500
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If fixed costs are $561,000 and the unit contribution margin is $10, what is the break-even point in units if variable costs are decreased by $.50 per unit?
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53,429
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If variable cost per unit increased because of an increase hourly wage rates, the break-even point would:
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increase
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If variable costs per unit decreased because of a decrease in utility rates, the break-even point would:
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decrease
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Which of the following conditions would cause the break-evenpoint to decrease?
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unit variable cost decreases
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which of the following conditions would cause the break-even point to increase?
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unit variable cost increases
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which of the following conditions would cause the break-even point to increase?
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total fixed cost increase
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Rouney Co. gas budgeted salary increases to factory supervisors totaling 10%. If selling prices and all other cost relationships are held constant, next year's break-even point will:
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increase by 10%
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If the contribution margin ratio for Harrison Company is 38%, sales were $425,000 and fixed costs are $100,000 what was the income from operations?
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$61,500
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The point where the sales line an the total costs line intersect on the cost-volume-profit chart represents:
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the break-even point
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The point where the profit line intersects the horizontal axis on the profit-volume chart represents:
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the break-even point
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With the aid of computer software, managers can vary assumptions regarding selling prices, costs, and volume and can immediately see the effects of each change on the break even point and profit. such an analysis is called:
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"what if" or sensitivity analysis
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The point where the profit line intersects the left vertical axis on the profit volume chart represents:
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the maximum possible operating loss
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clinton co. has an operating leverage of 4. sales are expected to increase by 8% next year. operating income is:
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expected to increase by 32%
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Assume that Crowson Co. sold 8,000 units of Product A and 2,00 units of Product B during the past year. The unit contribution margins for Product A and B are $20 and $45, respectively. Crown has fixed costs of $350,000. The break-even point in units is:
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14,000 units
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the relative distribution of sales among the various products sold by a business is termed the:
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sales mix
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When a business sells more than one product at varying selling prices, the business's break-even point can be determined as long as the number of products does not exceed:
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there is no limit
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If a business had sales of 4,000,000, fixed costs of $1,200,000 a margin of safety of 25% and a contribution margin ratio of 40%, what was the break even point?
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3,000,000
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If a business had sales of $4,000,000 and a margin of safety of 25%, what was the break even point?
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$3,000,000
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If a business had a capacity of $10,000,000 of sales, actual sales of $6,000,000, bak-even sales of $4,500,000, fixed costs of $1,800,000, and variable costs of 60% of sales, what is the margin of safety expressed as a percentage of sales:
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25%
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If sales are $300,000, variable costs are 60% of sales, an operating income is $40,000, what is the operating leverage?
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3.000
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The difference between the current sales revenue and the sales at the break-even point is called the:
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margin of safety
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Cost-volume-profit analysis cannot be used if which of the following occurs:
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costs cannot be properly classified into fixed and variable costs
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