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Cost accounting |
An area of accounting that involves measuring, recording, and reporting product and service costs. |
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Cost accounting system |
Manufacturing and service cost accounts that are fully integrated into the general ledger of a company. |
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Job cost sheet |
A document used to record the costs chargeable to a specific job and to determine the total and unit costs of the completed job. |
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Process costing |
A cost accounting system used when a company company manufactures a large volume of similar products. |
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Job order cost system |
A cost accounting system in which costs are assigned to each job or batch.
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Can a company use both job order and processes costing? |
Yes. |
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What are the two major steps in the flow of costs? |
1. Accumulating the manufacturing costs 2. Assigning the accumulated costs. |
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Flow of costs |
Direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead |
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Flow of costs in job order cost accounting parallels the physical flow of the materials as they are converted into finished goods and sold |
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Period costs |
All non-manufacturing costs |
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Product cost |
All manufacturing costs |
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Job cost sheet |
A job cost sheet is a document used to record the costs chargeable to a specific job and to determine the total and unit costs of the completed job. |
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What constitute the subsidiary ledger for the Work-in-Process inventory? |
Job cost sheets |
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Subsidiary ledger |
A subsidiary ledger consists of individual records for each individual item. |
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Control account |
The account that summarizes detailed data of its corresponding subsidiary ledger. |
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Material requisition slip |
A document authorizing the issuance of raw materials from the storeroom to production |
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How do companies assign factory labor costs to jobs? |
Companies assign factory labor costs to jobs on the basis of time tickets prepared when the work is performed. |
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Time ticket |
A document that indicates the employee, the hours worked, the account and the job to be charged, and the total labor cost. |
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Predetermined overhead rate |
Manufacturing overhead cannot be directly assigned to a specific job or process. So companies assign manufacturing overhead to work in process and to specific jobs on an estimated basis called the predetermined overhead rate. |
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Formula for predetermined overhead rate |
Estimated Annual Overhead Costs ÷ Estimated annual operating activity = Predetermined overhead rate |
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Finished good is a control account |
It controls individual finished goods records in a finished goods subsidiary ledger |
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When is the cost transferred from Finished Goods Inventory to Cost of Goods Sold? |
Companies recognize cost of goods sold when each sale occurs. |
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What is the Work-in-Process equivalent for service a service company? |
Service Contracts in Process |
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When is Manufacturing Overhead have a debit or credit balance? |
- Manufacturing overhead has a debit balance when overhead is under-applied - Manufacturing overhead has a credit balance when its over-applied. (Manufacturing Overhead is an expense account) |
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Where are the adjusting entries of over-or under-applied overhead made to? |
Cost of Goods Sold and Manufacturing Overhead accounts |