MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS 6TH
EDITION BY ERIC NOREEN
Table of contents
• Managerial Accounting and Cost Concepts
• Job-Order Costing
• Process Costing
• Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships
• Variable Costing and Segment Reporting: Tools for Management
• Activity-Based Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making
• Profit Planning
• Flexible Budgets, Standard Costs, and Variance Analysis
• Performance Measurement in Decentralized Organizations
• Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making
• Capital Budgeting Decisions
• Statement of Cash Flows
• Financial Statement Analysis
,Managerial Accounting for Managers, 6e (Noreen)
Chapter 1 Managerial Accounting and Cost Concepts
1) A factory supervisor's salary would be classified as an indirect cost with respect to a unit of
product.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Cost Classifications for Assigning Costs to Cost Objects
Learning Objective: 01-01 Understand cost classifications used for assigning costs to cost
objects: direct costs and indirect costs.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AICPA: BB Critical Thinking; FN Measurement
2) A direct cost is a cost that can be easily traced to the particular cost object under
consideration.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Cost Classifications for Assigning Costs to Cost Objects
Learning Objective: 01-01 Understand cost classifications used for assigning costs to cost
objects: direct costs and indirect costs.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AICPA: BB Critical Thinking; FN Measurement
3) A cost can be direct or indirect. The classification can change if the cost object changes.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Cost Classifications for Assigning Costs to Cost Objects
Learning Objective: 01-01 Understand cost classifications used for assigning costs to cost
objects: direct costs and indirect costs.
Bloom's: Understand
, AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AICPA: BB Critical Thinking; FN Measurement
4) Wages paid to production supervisors would be classified as manufacturing overhead.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Cost Classifications for Manufacturing Companies
Learning Objective: 01-02 Identify and give examples of each of the three basic manufacturing
cost categories.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AICPA: BB Critical Thinking; FN Measurement
5) Selling costs are indirect costs.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Cost Classifications for Manufacturing Companies
Learning Objective: 01-02 Identify and give examples of each of the three basic manufacturing
cost categories.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AICPA: BB Critical Thinking; FN Measurement
6) The sum of all manufacturing costs except for direct materials and direct labor is called
manufacturing overhead.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Cost Classifications for Manufacturing Companies
Learning Objective: 01-02 Identify and give examples of each of the three basic manufacturing
cost categories.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
AICPA: BB Critical Thinking; FN Measurement
7) The three cost elements ordinarily included in product costs are direct materials, direct labor,
and manufacturing overhead.
Answer: TRUE