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By Ray Garrison, Eric Noreen and Peter Brewer
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Verified Chapter's 1 - 16 | Complete
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,Table of Contents q,j q,j
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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,Chapter 1 q,j
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1-1 Thethreemajortypes ofproductcosts in a q,j q,j q,j q,j ,j
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manufacturing company are direct materials,
q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j a. Variable cost: The variable cost per unit is q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j
direct labor, and manufacturing overhead.
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direct proportion to changes in volume.
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1-2 b. Fixed cost: The total fixed cost is constant q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j
a. Direct materials are anintegralpart ofa q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j withintherelevantrange.Theaveragefixed
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finished product and their costs can be
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b. Indirect materials are generally small items q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j c. Mixedcost:Amixed costcontainsboth ,j
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of material such as glue and nails. They maybe an
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integralpart of a finishedproduct but their costs can
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be traced to the product only at great cost or
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inconvenience.
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c. Directlaborconsists oflaborcoststhat can q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j increases.
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q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j b. Unitvariablecostsremainconstant as the
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Direct labor is also called ―touch labor.‖
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activity level increases.
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d. Indirect labor consists of the labor costs of q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j c. Totalfixedcostsremainconstantas the q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j
janitors,supervisors,materialshandlers,and
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other factory workers that cannot be
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conveniently traced to particular products. These
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labor costs are incurred to support production,
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but the workers involved do not directly work on
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the product.
q,j q,j a. Cost behavior: Cost behavior refers to the
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e. Manufacturing overhead includes all q,j q,j q,j way in which costs change in response to
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manufacturing costs except direct materials and
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direct labor. Consequently, manufacturing
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labor as well as other manufacturing costs.
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1-3 A product cost is any cost involved in q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j about variable and fixed cost behavior are
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purchasing or manufacturing goods. In the case of
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manufactured goods, these costs consist of direct
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materials,directlabor,andmanufacturing
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overhead. A period cost is a cost that is taken
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directly to the income statement as an expense in
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the period in which it is incurred.
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hospital, meals served in a cafe, service calls
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made, etc.
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1-8 The linear assumption is reasonably valid q,j q,j q,j q,j q,j
, providingthatthecostformulais usedonly within
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the relevant range.
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