Managerial Accounting 12th edition Perfect Paperback – January 1, 2008

Managerial Accounting 12th edition Perfect Paperback – January 1, 2008 True/False Questions 1. Although financial and managerial accounting differ in many ways, they are similar in that both rely on the same underlying financial data. Answer: True Level: Medium LO: 1 2. Managerial accounting is a branch of financial accounting and serves essentially the same purposes as financial accounting. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 1 3. Managerial accounting places greater emphasis on the future than financial accounting, which is primarily concerned with the past. Answer: True Level: Easy LO: 1 4. Managerial accounting is not needed in a non-profit or governmental organization. Answer: False Level: Easy LO: 1 5. When carrying out their planning activities, managers select a course of action and specify how the action will be implemented. Answer: True Level: Easy LO: 2 CHAPTER 2 True/False Questions 1. Manufacturing overhead is an indirect cost with respect to units of product. Answer: True Level: Medium LO: 1 2. Depreciation on office equipment would not be included in the cost of goods manufactured. Answer: True Level: Easy LO: 2,4 3. Rent on a factory building used in the production process would be classified as a period cost and as a fixed cost. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 2,5 4. Period costs are found only in manufacturing companies, not in merchandising companies. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 2 5. Depreciation on equipment a company uses in its selling and administrative activities would be classified as a product cost. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 2 6. If the finished goods inventory increases between the beginning and the end of a period, then the cost of goods manufactured is smaller than the cost of goods sold. Answer: False Level: Hard LO: 3,4 7. The cost of goods manufactured is calculated by adding the amount of work in process at the end of the year to the cost of raw materials used, direct labor worked, and manufacturing overhead incurred for the year and then subtracting work in process at the beginning of the year. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 4 8. A publisher that sells its books through agents who are paid a constant percentage commission on each book sold would classify the commissions as a fixed cost. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 5 9. Variable costs per unit are affected by changes in activity. Answer: False Level: Easy LO: 5 10. A cost is either direct or indirect. The classification will not change if the cost object changes. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 6 11. The amount that a manufacturing company could earn by renting unused portions of its warehouse is an example of an opportunity cost. Answer: True Level: Easy LO: 7 12. Labor fringe benefits may be charged to direct labor or manufacturing overhead while overtime premiums paid usually are considered a part of manufacturing overhead. Answer: True Level: Easy LO: 8 Appendix: 2A 13. The cost of idle time should be charged as direct labor of the job that is in process when the breakdown occurs. Answer: False Level: Medium LO: 8 Appendix: 2A 14. Internal failure costs result from identification of defects during the appraisal process. Such costs may include scrap, rejected products, rework, and downtime. Answer: True Level: Easy LO: 9 Appendix: 2B 15. ISO 9000 certification is relatively easy to achieve because little documentation on quality control procedures is needed. Answer: False Level: Easy LO: 11 Appendix: 2B