Cost Accounting: A Data Analytics
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Margaret H. Christ
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2024 Edition
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Cost Accounting: A Data Analytics Approach (2024 Edition)
Margaret H. Christ
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Chapter 1 Strategic Management Questions and the Role of Management Accountants
Chapter 2 An Introduction to Cost Data
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Chapter 3 Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Chapter 4 Job Costing
Chapter 5 Two-Stage Cost Allocations and Activity-Based Costing
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Chapter 6 Cost Allocation: Support-Department Costs and Joint Product Costing
Chapter 7 Process Costing
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Chapter 8 Performance Measurement and Control
Chapter 9 Master Budgeting and Flexible Budgets
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Chapter 10 Sales and Direct-Cost Variances
Chapter 11 Indirect Cost Variances
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Chapter 12 Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
Chapter 13 Strategic Decision Making
Chapter 14 Capital Budgeting
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1) Creating value through designing, manufacturing, selling, or trading products or services at a
price that is greater than the cost of creating and distributing those products or services is the
goal of which type of which of the following organizations?
A) Government
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B) Nonprofit
C) For-profit
D) Charities
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2) Which of the following is a strategic decision that management must make in order to
achieve its goal of maximizing long-term profits?
A) How often to file taxes
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B) What price to set for company stock
C) Who to appoint as CEO
D) What price to charge customers
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3) Considering the creation of value at a university, the graduates who get jobs would be which
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element of the value chain?
A) Inputs
B) Processing
C) Pricing
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D) Output
4) All of the items, events, and interactions that determine a company’s financial health and
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well-being is
A) management accounting.
B) business process.
C) business value.
D) business planning.
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, 5) A coordinated, standardized set of activities conducted by both people and equipment to
accomplish a specific task is
A) management accounting.
B) business process.
C) business value.
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D) business planning.
6) A chain of critical business processes that create business value at a company is a(n)
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A) significant value.
B) process chain.
C) business chain.
D) value chain.
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7) Which of the following are the activities that directly create value for the company and its
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customers?
A) Primary activities
B) Secondary activities
C) Supporting activities
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D) Infrastructure activities
8) Which of the following adds value due to their deep knowledge of the costs associated with
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the production and distribution of the company’s products or services, and the factors that
increase or decrease the those costs?
A) Data scientists
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B) Management accountants
C) Production managers
D) Logistics coordinators
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9) Which of the following is not considered a primary activity of the value chain?
A) Operations
B) Marketing
C) Procurement
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D) Logistics
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