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Solution Manual for Managerial Accounting,
18th Edition
By Ray Garrison, Eric Noreen and Peter Brewer Verified Chapter's 1 - 16 | Complete
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Managerial Accounting and Cost Concepts Chapter
Two: Job-Order Costing: Calculating Unit Product Costs
Chapter Three: Job-Order Costing: Cost Flows and External Reporting Chapter Four: Process Costing
Chapter Five: Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships
Chapter Six: Variable Costing and Segment Reporting: Tools for Management Chapter Seven: Activity-Based Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making Chapter Eight: Master Budgeting
Chapter Nine: Flexible Budgets and Performance Analysis Chapter Ten: Standard Costs and Variances
Chapter Eleven: Responsibility Accounting Systems Chapter Twelve: Strategic Performance Measurement
Chapter Thirteen: Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making
Chapter Fourteen: Capital Budgeting Decisions
Chapter Fifteen: Statement of Cash Flows Chapter Sixteen: Financial Statement Analysis
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Chapter 1
Managerial Accounting and Cost Concepts
Questions
1-1
The three major types of product costs in 1-4
a manufacturing company are direct materials, a. Variable cost: The variable cost per unit is
direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. constant, but total variable cost changes in
direct proportion to changes in volume.
1-2 b. Fixed cost: The total fixed cost is constant
a.
Direct materials are an integral part of within the relevant range. The average fixed
a finished product and their costs can be cost per unit varies inversely with changes in
conveniently traced to it. volume.
b.
Indirect materials are generally small items c. Mixed cost: A mixed cost contains
of material such as glue and nails. They may be an both variable and fixed cost elements.
integral part of a finished product but their costs can
be traced to the product only at great cost or 1-5
inconvenience. a. Unit fixed costs decrease as the activity
c.
Direct labor consists of labor costs level increases.
that can be easily traced to particular b. Unit variable costs remain constant as
products.
the activity level increases.
Direct labor is also called ―touch labor.ǁ
d.
Indirect labor consists of the labor costs of c. Total fixed costs remain constant as
janitors, supervisors, materials handlers, and other the activity level increases.
factory workers that cannot be conveniently d. Total variable costs increase as the
traced to particular products. These labor costs are activity level increases.
incurred to support production, but the workers
involved do not directly work on the product. 1-6
e.
Manufacturing overhead includes all a. Cost behavior: Cost behavior refers to the way
manufacturing costs except direct materials and in which costs change in response to changes
direct labor. Consequently, manufacturing overhead in a measure of activity such as sales volume,
includes indirect materials and indirect labor as well production volume, or orders processed.
as other manufacturing costs. b. Relevant range: The relevant range is the
range of activity within which assumptions
1-3 A product cost is any cost involved in about variable and fixed cost behavior are
purchasing or manufacturing goods. In the case of valid.
manufactured goods, these costs consist of direct
materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. 1-7 An activity base is a measure of
A period cost is a cost that is taken directly to the whatever causes the incurrence of a variable
income statement as an expense in the period in cost. Examples of activity bases include
which it is incurred. units produced, units sold, letters typed,
beds in a hospital, meals served in a cafe,
service calls made, etc.
1-8 The linear assumption is reasonably
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valid providing that the cost formula is used
only within the relevant range.
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