T1& 2 (Q)-Introduction
True/False Questions
1. The three cost elements ordinarily included in the inventoriable cost of a manufactured product are direct materials, direct labor, and marketing costs.
2. Depreciation on manufacturing equipment is a period cost.
3. Salaries and wages incurred in the factory would be product costs
4. Commissions paid to salespersons are a variable selling expense.
5. Variable costs are costs that vary, in total, in direct proportion to changes in the volume or level of activity.
Multiple Choice Questions
6. The variable portion of the cost of electricity for a manufacturing plant is a:
| |Conversion cost |Period
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B) $76,000. C) $94,000. D) $86,000.
15. The following data were taken from the cost records of the Beca Company for last year:
|Depreciation, factory equipment |$30,000 |
|Depreciation, office equipment |7,000 |
|Supplies, factory |1,500 |
|Maintenance, factory equipment |20,000 |
|Utilities, factory |8,000 |
|Sales commissions |30,000 |
|Indirect labor |54,500 |
|Rent, factory building |70,000 |
|Purchases of raw materials |124,000 |
|Direct labor cost |80,000 |
|Advertising expense |90,000 |
|Inventories: |Beginning |Ending |
|Raw materials |$ 9,000 |$11,000 |
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Machine hours, direct labor hours, and direct labor costs can all be used to allocate manufacturing overhead.
Product production comes with many types of costs. Four of the most common costs are prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs and external failure costs. These four costs are called quality costs and are costs that all businesses that produce products will pay. The amount of money that will go to each cost is dependent on the amount spent on the other costs. In other words, an increase in one type of cost can result in a decrease in another. Businesses need to understand the nature of each cost in order to understand for which cost to budget.
Variable Cost defines the cost of a single assembled product based on the materials consumed and labor invested directly in unit production. To illustrate our point, we can say that making a single baked potato with all of the fixings will cost $3.00 to produce (potato, sour cream, chives, plate, fork, napkin and labor). If we decide to go into the baked potato business, we must then sell these potatoes for at least $3.00 per unit. Any less would cause us to lose money on the endeavor. This cost cannot be made up by increasing volume of sales. Judy Koch discussed the fact that bulk purchases can benefit you reduce these variable costs. If we decided to purchase potato-making materials in larger quantities and hired more workers to produce these products, we could
330-10-30330-10-30-1 The primary basis of accounting for inventories is cost, which has been defined generally as the price paid or consideration given to acquire an asset. As applied to inventories, cost means in principle the sum of the applicable expenditures and charges directly or indirectly incurred in bringing an article to its existing condition and location. It is understood to mean acquisition and production cost, and its determination involves many considerations. 330-10-30330-10-30-2 Although principles for the determination of inventory costs may be easily stated, their application, particularly to such inventory items as work in process and finished goods, is difficult because of the variety of considerations in the allocation of costs and charges.
Thirdly, at the product activity level, the two Operations costs are likely to vary mainly with the Number of Units Produced and the three Sales costs are also likely to vary mainly with the Number of Units Produced.
Into which of the three elements of manufacturing cost would each of the following be classified? (Direct Labor, Direct Materials, and Manufactured Overhead)
1. Product Cost: Product costs are costs, both direct and indirect, of producing a product in a manufacturing firm or of acquiring a product in a merchandising firm and preparing it for sale (Rich et al, 2010). For example, the metal used in making a car, the hours put into making that car, and depreciation on equipment are product costs. The product costs incurred by Grear Rafting include:
Generally, product expenses include all those costs associated with the acquisition, manufacture or production of a product. Drury (2007)
A variable cost is a corporate expense that varies with production output. Variable costs are those costs that vary depending on a company's production volume; they rise as production increases and fall as production decreases (Variable Cost, n.d.); in the case study for all cost per event such
1. Distinguish between variable and fixed costs. Variable costs are costs that vary in total directly and proportionately with changes in the activity index. Fixed costs are costs that remain the same in total regardless of changes in the activity index. 2. Explain the significance of the relevant range. The relevant range is the range of activity in which a company expects to operate during a year. It is important in CVP analysis because the behavior of costs is assumed to be linear throughout the relevant range. 3. Explain the concept of mixed costs. Mixed costs increase
Variable costs are costs that vary with output. Variable cost changes according to the quantity of a good or service being produced. Generally variable costs increase at a constant rate relative to labor and capital. Variable costs may include wages, utilities, materials used in production, etc. The inputs of Listerine start with Raw Materials (generally composed of diluents, antibacterial agents, soaps, flavorings,
It has been argued that all costs incurred by company can be included as part of Manufacturing costs. This is debatable question but usually in a manufacturing company there is a manufacturing cost and period cost where only manufacturing cost is inventoriable. Anything that is not integral part of final product is considered period cost and it is management decision (but rational decision) based on the business and the form in which product is sold, to decide on the criterion.
3 variable costs indentified, they are power, operations, material. They are proportional to the revenue intake.
El Plan Maestro de Producción (PMP) permite establecer la planificación de la producción de la gama de productos finales de un sistema productivo, para un horizonte temporal a largo plazo, en clase, en cantidad y momento para cada uno. En definitiva, determina las cantidades y fechas en que deben estar dispuestos los inventarios de distribución de la empresa. En este sentido, al plan maestro de producción solo le conciernen los productos y