ACCT 5210 - Overview Video - Ch.1

Cyber Devices manufactures PCTV products that enable people to watch television content on their computers. It sells its product to retailers for $50. A tuner component that goes into each of these devices costs $5 to acquire. The total variable cost at an activity level of 1,000 units equals ________.

$5 x 1,000 = $5,000

In a small manufacturing facility, one welder is needed for every 200 hours of machine-hours or fewer in a month. The welder is paid a monthly salary of $2,500. If the total monthly requirement is 1,300 machine-hours, the total salaried employee expense is ___________.

1,300hrs/200hrs = 6.5 workers ; 6.5 workers x $2,500 = $17,500

Manufacturing costs include all of the following categories except _____________.

Administrative Costs

Which of the following statements about opportunity cost is not correct? - An opportunity cost is the potential benefit that is given up when one alternative is selected over another. - An opportunity cost cannot be changed by any decision made now or in the future. - Opportunity costs are not usually found in accounting records. - Opportunity costs are costs that must be explicitly considered in every decision a manager makes.

An opportunity cost cannot be changed by any decision made now or in the future.

A ___________ is a cost that is incurred to support a number of cost objects but cannot be traced to them individually.

Common Cost

Audio Corporation purchased $20,000 of DVDs during the current year. The company had DVD inventory of $15,000 at the beginning of the year. An end of the year audit revealed that the company had DVD inventory of $10,000. The amount that would be reported as cost of goods sold in the income statement for the current year is ________.

Cost of Goods Sold = (Beginning Merchandise Inventory + Purchases) - Ending Merchandise Inventory Cost of Goods Sold = ($15,000 + $20,000) - $10,000 = $25,000

The traditional income statement uses which of the following cost categories? - Variable expenses and fixed expenses. - Cost of goods sold and fixed expenses. - Operating expenses and selling administrative expenses. - Cost of goods sold and selling administrative expenses.

Cost of goods sold and selling administrative expenses.

Adventure Holiday sells thousands of tour packages each month through its various branches. A branch manager's salary would be a(n) _________ of the branch.

Direct Cost

Which of the following is common to both prime cost and conversion cost?

Direct Labor

______________ is sometimes called "touch labor."

Direct Labor

Materials that become an integral part of the finished product and whose costs can be conveniently traced to the finished product are called ____________.

Direct Materials

Adventure Holiday sells thousands of tour packages each month through its various branches. A branch manager's salary would be a(n) _________ of selling a tour package.

Indirect Cost

Which of the following is true of the contribution approach? - It is mainly used for external reporting purposes. - It separates costs into fixed and variable categories. - It is not useful for merchandising companies. - It calculates gross margin by deducting cost of goods sold from sales.

It separates costs into fixed and variable categories.

Items such as indirect materials, indirect labor, maintenance and repairs on production equipment, depreciation, and insurance on manufacturing facilities are included in ________.

Manufacturing Overhead Costs

The ___________ requires that the costs incurred to generate a particular revenue should be recognized as expenses in the same period that the revenue is recognized.

Matching Principle

Property taxes associated with a company's administrative facility are considered ____________.

Non-Manufacturing Costs

How should the wages of a sheet metal worker in a fabrication plant be classified?

Product Cost

Davidson Company has sales of $100,000, variable cost of goods sold of $40,000, variable selling expenses of $15,000, variable administrative expenses of $5,000, fixed selling expenses of $7,000, and fixed administrative expenses of $9,000. What is Davidson's contribution margin?

Sales = $100,000 Variable Cost = $40,000 Variable selling Expenses = $15,000 Variable Admin. Exp. = $5,000 $100,000- ($40,000 + $15,000 + $5,000) = $40,000

Which of the following is always an irrelevant cost?

Sunk Cost

Differential costs are always ___________.

relevant in making business decisions

A fixed cost is a cost which ________.

remains constant in total with changes in the level of activity

If a firm increases its activity level, _________.

some costs will change, other costs will remain the same

In the equation, Y = a + bX, X represents ___________.

the level of activity