Cost Accounting: A Data Analytics Approach
By Margaret H. Christ, D. Kip Holderness and
Vernon Richardson
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,TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Strategic Management Questions and the Role of Management Accountants 2. An
Introduction to Cost Data
3. Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
4. Job Costing
5. Two-Stage Cost Allocations and Activity-Based Costing
6. Cost Allocation: Support-Department Costs and Joint Product Costing
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7. Process Costing
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8. Performance Measurement and Control
9. Master Budgeting and Flexible Budgets
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10. Sales and Direct-Cost Variances
11. Indirect Cost Variances
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12. Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
13. Strategic Decision Making
14. Capital Budgeting
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,Student name:__________
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?
Government
Nonprofit
For-profit
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Charities
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Which of the following is a strategic decision that management must make in order to achieve its
goal of maximizing long-term profits?
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How often to file taxes
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What price to set for company stock
Who to appoint as CEO
What price to charge customers
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Considering the creation of value at a university, the graduates who get jobs would be which
element of the value chain?
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Inputs
Processing
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Pricing
Output
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All of the items, events, and interactions that determine a company’s financial health and well-
being is
management accounting.
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, business process.
business value.
business planning.
A coordinated, standardized set of activities conducted by both people and equipment to
accomplish a specific task is
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management accounting.
business process.
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business value.
business planning.
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A chain of critical business processes that create business value at a company is a(n)
significant value.
process chain.
business chain.
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value chain.
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Which of the following are the activities that directly create value for the company and its
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customers?
Primary activities
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Secondary activities
Supporting activities
Infrastructure activities
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