18th Edition
By Ray Garrison, Eric Noreen and Peter Brewer
Verified Chapter's 1 - 16 | Complete
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Chapter One: Managerial Accounting and Cost Concepts
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Chapter Two: Job-Order Costing: Calculating Unit Product Costs
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Chapter Three: Job-Order Costing: Cost Flows and External Reporting
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Chapter Four: Process Costing
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Chapter Five: Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships
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Chapter Six: Variable Costing and Segment Reporting: Tools for Management
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Chapter Seven: Activity-Based Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making
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Chapter Eight: Master Budgeting
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Chapter Nine: Flexible Budgets and Performance Analysis
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Chapter Ten: Standard Costs and Variances
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Chapter Eleven: Responsibility Accounting Systems
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Chapter Twelve: Strategic Performance Measurement
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Chapter Thirteen: Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making
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Chapter Fourteen: Capital Budgeting Decisions
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Chapter Fifteen: Statement of Cash Flows
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Chapter Sixteen: Financial Statement Analysis
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Questions
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1-1 The three major types ofproduct costs in
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rect labor, and manufacturing overhead.
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1-2 A product cost is any cost involved in purch
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a. Direct materials are an integral part of a fini j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 asing or manufacturing goods. In the case of manufa
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shed product and their costs can be conveniently
j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 ctured goods, these costs consist of direct materials,
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b. Indirect materials are generally small items j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 cost is a cost that is taken directly to the income state
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of material such as glue and nails. They may be an in
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tegral part of a finished product but their costs can b
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e traced to the product only at great cost or inconv
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enience.
c. Direct labor consists of labor costs that ca j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3
n be easily traced to particular products.
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Direct labor is also called ―touch labor.‖
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d. Indirect labor consists of the labor costs of j j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3
anitors, supervisors, materials handlers, and other
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factory workers that cannot be conveniently trace
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d to particular products. These labor costs are inc
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urred to support production, but the workers invo
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lved do not directly work on the product.
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e. Manufacturing overhead includes all manu j3 j3 j3 j3
facturing costs except direct materials and direct laj3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3 j3
bor. Consequently, manufacturing overhead inclu
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