Financial & Managerial Accounting
Financial & Managerial Accounting
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781337119207
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 16, Problem 1DQ

(a)

To determine

Cost accounting systems

It is a system which measures, record and report the product costs. In decision making process, managers use product cost for determining the prices of the product, controlling the operations of the business, and developing financial statements.

To state: the two principal types of cost accounting systems.

(a)

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The two principal types of cost accounting systems are:

  1. 1. Job order cost system
  2. 2. Process cost system.

(b)

To determine

To state: the system that provides for a separate record of each particular quantity of product that passes through the factory.

(b)

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Job order cost system provides a separate record of each particular quantity of product that passes through the factory. Each quantity that is manufactured in the business is known as job.

(c)

To determine

To state: the system that accumulates the cost for each department or process within the factory.

(c)

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The process cost system accumulates the cost for each department or process within the factory. They are used by the companies which deal with manufacturing goods which are indistinguishable from each other and by using continuous manufacturing process.

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Chapter 16 Solutions

Financial & Managerial Accounting

Ch. 16 - Issuance of materials On May 7, Bergan Company...Ch. 16 - Direct labor costs During May, Herman Company...Ch. 16 - Factory overhead costs During May, Bergan Company...Ch. 16 - Applying factory overhead Bergan Company estimates...Ch. 16 - Job costs At the end of May, Bergan Company had...Ch. 16 - Cost of goods sold Pine Creek Company completed...Ch. 16 - Transactions in a job order cost system Five...Ch. 16 - Cost flow relationships The following information...Ch. 16 - Cost of materials issuances under the FIFO method...Ch. 16 - Entry for issuing materials Materials issued for...Ch. 16 - Entries for materials GenX Furnishings Company...Ch. 16 - Entry for factory labor costs A summary of the...Ch. 16 - Entry for factory labor costs The weekly time...Ch. 16 - Entries for direct labor and factory overhead...Ch. 16 - Factory overhead rates, entries, and account...Ch. 16 - Predetermined factory overhead rate Spring Street...Ch. 16 - Predetermined factory overhead rate Poehling...Ch. 16 - Entry for jobs completed; cost of unfinished jobs...Ch. 16 - Entries for factory costs and jobs completed Old...Ch. 16 - Financial statements of a manufacturing firm The...Ch. 16 - Job order cost accounting for a service company...Ch. 16 - Job order cost accounting for a service company...Ch. 16 - Entries for costs in a job order cost system...Ch. 16 - Entries and schedules for unfinished jobs and...Ch. 16 - Job order cost sheet Remnant Carpet Company sells...Ch. 16 - Analyzing manufacturing cost accounts Fire Rock...Ch. 16 - Flow of costs and income statement Ginocera Inc....Ch. 16 - Entries for costs in a job order cost system Royal...Ch. 16 - Entries and schedules for unfinished jobs and...Ch. 16 - Job order cost sheet Stretch and Trim Carpet...Ch. 16 - Analyzing manufacturing cost accounts Clapton...Ch. 16 - Prob. 16.5BPRCh. 16 - Prob. 16.1TIFCh. 16 - Team Activity As an assistant cost accountant for...Ch. 16 - Carol Creedence, the plant manager of the...
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