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horngrens cost accounting a managerial emphasis
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Horngrens Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis
What is meant by responsibility reporting and information reporting?LO.1
Distinguish between responsibility reporting and information reporting with specific reference to the elements of cost and invested capital relevant to each.LO.1
What purpose might be served by an information report?LO.1
In terms of responsibility reporting, distinguish between a cost center, a profit center, and an investment center.LO.1
In terms of information reporting, distinguish between a cost center, a profit center, and an investment center.LO.1
What difficulties are involved in determining the controllable revenues of a division if the division has no dealings of any kind with other company divisions?LO.1
If, regardless of the transfer price charged by one division to another, the net income of the company as a whole is not affected, why should management worry about transfer pricing?LO.1
What is the objective of transfer pricing at other than cost?LO.1
Why might a list price less a discount be more appropriate as a transfer price than a list price without a discount?LO.1
If an internal buying unit cannot buy from external sources because none exist or because management will not permit such a practice, is this a good reason to forgo a responsibility approach to
If an internal producing unit cannot sell to external sources because none exist or because management will not permit such a practice, is this a good reason to forgo a responsibility approach to
Can it be said that a combination of negotiation and ability to purchase and sell externally would most likely yield a transfer price based upon "list prices minus a discount?" Discuss.LO.1
What factors might have tendency to limit a manager's ability to manipulate the elements involved in divisional profit calculations?LO.1
What is meant by a potential conflict of interests between divisional responsibility reporting and effective decision-making?LO.1
Of what value is a comparison between unit variable or incremental cost to produce a product and unit purchase price of the same product from external sources of supply?LO.1
For what reasons might one consider transfer prices too difficult to deal with and thus substitute alternatives to transfer prices?LO.1
The Caplow Company is a multi-divisional company. Its managers have been delegated full profit responsibility and complete autonomy to accept or reject transfers from other divisions.Division A
Common types of environmental costs.LO.1
The relationship between environmental costs and profits.LO.1
The difference between a compliance and a prevention approach to environmental cost management.LO.1
How reducing pollution can increase profits.LO.1
The impact of pollution costs on capital expenditure analysis and break-even analysis.LO.1
Some aspects of tracking pollution costs.LO.1
External reporting aspects of environmental information.LO.1
Name and define four types of environmental costs.LO.1
If your household paid $20 per month in 1993 for garbage pickup service, how much will you pay in 2003 if prices for home garbage pickup increase at the same rate as in the 1983-1993 period?LO.1
How might an oil refinery earn additional profits by reducing pollution?LO.1
"Increasing pollution always increases profits." State whether you agree or disagree, and provide examples to support your position.LO.1
How does a compliance approach to pollution control differ from a prevention approach?LO.1
What kind of financial advantages does a company gain from building a plant that generates zero pollution (at a relatively high cost) versus building one that pollutes (at a relatively low cost)
How can expenditures on pollution prevention impact the net present value of a project?LO.1
How can a company use its information system to capture data on environmental costs?LO.1
How does the "superfund" legislation impact the external financial statements for a company?LO.1
Why should executives concern themselves with the reporting of environmental costs to stockholders and other outsiders?LO.1
Describe a code structure for a firm that decides to capture information about environmental costs.LO.1
Evaluation of Delayed Payment to Fix Pollution.A chemical company can build a plant for $500 million now and retrofit it in 20 years for$200 million to clean up pollution, or it can spend $650
Analyze the impact of income taxes on operating cash flows
Distinguish between the total-project approach and the differential approach in capital budgeting decisions
Give examples of four categories of cash flows considered in capital budgeting analyses.
Distinguish between the total-project approach and the differential approach to choosing between two capital budgeting projects.
“Accounting amortization is an irrelevant factor in deciding whether to replace an existing delivery vehicle with a more energy-efficient vehicle.” Do you agree? Explain.
“Income taxes only play a role in capital budgeting because of capital cost allowance tax savings.” Do you agree? Explain.
“In practice there is no single rate that a given company can use as a guide for sifting among all projects.” Do you agree? Explain.
Equipment replacement, income taxes. (CMA, adapted) VacuTech manufactures testing instruments for microcircuits. These instruments sell for $4,200 each. VacuTech incurs cash operating costs of $2,940
“Total input includes abnormal as well as normal spoilage and is therefore irrational as a basis for computing normal spoilage.” Do you agree? Why?
How do company managements use information about scrap?EXERCISES
Weighted-average method, spoilage. Superchip specializes in the manufacture of microchips for aircraft. Direct materials are added at the start of the production process.Conversion costs are added
FIFO method, spoilage. Refer to the information in Exercise 18-16.Required Do Exercise 18-16 using the FIFO method of process costing.Excel Application For students who wish to practise their
Describe different ways backflush costing can simplify traditional job-costing systems
Give three examples of opportunity costs that typically are not recorded in accounting systems, although they are relevant to the EOQ model.
What are the steps in computing the cost of a prediction error when using the EOQ inventory management,... , r lb r JUST-IN-TIME, AND decision modeb
Describe just-in-time 0IT) purchasing and its benefits.
What are three factors causing reductions in the cost to place purchase orders ofmaterials?
Describe how the Internet can be used to reduce the costs of placing purchase orders.
Identify and discuss arguments individual product managers may put forward to support their preferred revenue allocation method.
Show how managers can gain insight into the causes of a sales-volume variance by drilling down into the components of this variance. .
How can the concept of a composite unit be used to explain why an unfavourable total salesmix variance for revenues occurs?
“A customer profitability profile highlights those customers that should be dropped to improve profitability.” Do you agree?
Revenue allocation, speaking fees. Geoff Carr is a leading public relations expert.He recently convinced three well-known sports personalities to jointly appear on a one-day seminar.Linda Young is a
Determine when process-costing systems are appropriate
Describe five key steps in process costing
Calculate and use equivalent units
Incorporate standard costs into a process-costing system
Explain equivalent units. Why are equivalent-unit calculations necessary in process costing?17_4 Name the five key steps in process costing when equivalent units are computed.
Describe the distinctive characteristic ofweighted-average computations in assigning costs to units completed and ending work in process.
Describe the distinctive characteristic of FIFO computations in assigning costs to units completed and ending work in process.
Why should the FIFO method be called the modified or departmental FIFO method?
Identify the main difference between journal entries in process costing and the ones in job costing.
“There’s no reason for me to get excited about the choice between the weighted-average and FIFO methods in my process-costing system. I have long-term contracts with my materials sup¬pliers at
Equivalent units: No beginning inventory. International Electronics manufactures micro¬chips in large quantities. Each microchip undergoes assembly and testing. The total assembly costs during
Journal entries (continuation of 17-16). Refer to requirement 2 of Exercise 17-16.Required Prepare summary journal entries for the use of direct materials and conversion costs. Also prepare a journal
No beginning inventory, materials introduced in middle ofprocess. Vaasa Chemicals has a mixing department and a refining department. Its process-costing system in the mixing department has two direct
Weighted-average method. The Chatham Company makes chemical compounds in a single processing department. The following information about equivalent units and actual costs forJuly 2007 is
FIFO method. Refer to the information in Exercise 17-19.Required Do Exercise 17-19 using the FIFO method.Note that you first need to calculate the equivalent units of work done in the current
Standard-costing method, assigning costs. Refer to the information in Exercise 17-19.Suppose Chatham determines standard costs of $6.10 per (equivalent) unit for direct materi¬als and $10.20 per
Weighted-average method, equivalent units and unit costs. Consider the following data for the $atellite Assembly Division ofAerospatiale:Physical Units Direct Conversion(Satellites) Materials Costs
FIFO method, equivalent units and unit costs. Refer to the information in Exercise 17-22.Suppose the Satellite Assembly Division uses the FIFO method of process costing instead of the
FIFO method, assigning costs (continuation of 17-24).Required For the data in Exercise 17-22, use the FIFO method to summarize total costs to account for, and assign these costs to units completed
Standard-costing method, assigning costs. Refer to the information in Exercise 17-22.Suppose the Satellite Assembly Division uses the standard-costing method ofprocess costing.Suppose further that
Transferred-in costs, FIFO method. Refer to the information in Exercise 17-27. Suppose that Hideo uses the FIFO method instead ofthe weighted-average method in all its departments. The only changes
Operation costing. (Chapter Appendix II) The Gabriel Corporation produces a standard¬sized window in four operations—framing, assembly, staining, and painting. The windows differ in the type of
Weighted-average method. Global Defence, Inc., is a manufacturer of military equipment.Its Halifax plant manufactures the Interceptor missile under contract to the Canadian gov¬ernment and friendly
Journal entries (continuation of 17-30).Required Prepare a set ofsummarized journal entries for all October 2007 transactions affecting Work in Process—Assembly. Set up a T-account for Work in
FIFO method (continuation of 17-30 and 17-31).Required/UDh Problem 17-30 using the FIFO method of process costing. Explain any difference between the cost ofwork completed and transferred out and
Transferred-in costs, weighted average (related to 17-30 to 17-32). (Chapter Appendix I)Global Defence, Inc., as you know, manufactures the Interceptor missile at its Halifax plant. It has two
Transferred-in costs, FIFO costing (continuation of 17-33).Required Using the FIFO process-costing method, do the requirements ofProblem 17-33. The transferredin costs from the Assembly Department
Weighted-average method. $tar Toys manufactures one type of wooden toy figure. It buys wood as its direct material for the Forming Department of its Fredericton plant. The toys are transferred to the
Journal entries (continuation of 17-35).Required Prepare a set ofsummarized journal entries for all April transactions affecting Work in Process—Forming. Set up a T-account for Work in
FIFO computations (continuation of 17-35 and 17-36).Required Do Problem 17-35, using FIFO and three decimal places for unit costs. Explain any difference between the cost ofwork completed and
Transferred-in costs, weighted-average (related to 17-35 through 17-37). (Chapter Appendix I) Star Toys manufactures wooden toy figures at its Fredericton plant. It has two departments—the Forming
Transferred-in costs, FIFO costing (continuation of 17-38).Required 1. Using the FIFO process-costing method, do the requirements of Problem 17-38. The transferred-in costs from the Forming
Transferred-in costs, weighted-average and FIFO. (Chapter Appendix I) Frito-Lay, Inc., manufactures convenience foods, including potato chips and corn chips. Production of corn chips occurs in four
Standard costing with beginning and ending work in process. The Victoria Corporation uses a standard-costing system for its manufacturing operations. $tandard costs for the cooking process are $5,143
Operation Costing (Chapter Appendix II). Feather Light Shoe Company manufactures two styles of men’s shoes: Designer and Regular. Designer style is made from leather, and Regular style uses
Operation costing, equivalent units. (Chapter Appendix II, CMA, adapted) Gregg Industries manufactures a variety of plastic products, including a series of moulded chairs.The three models ofmoulded
Equivalent unit computations, benchmarking, ethics. Margaret Major is the corporate controller of Leisure Suits. Leisure Suits has 20 plants worldwide that manufacture basic suits for retail stores.
Transferred-in costs, equivalent unit costs, working backwards. Lennox Plastics has two processes—extrusion and thermo-assembly. Consider the June 2007 data for physical units in the
For what types of management decisions does contribution data provide relevant information to managers?LO.1
Give five examples of accounting segments for which managers might want contribution data.LO.1
Explain the difference between traceable and joint costs.LO.1
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