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1. Managerial accounting a. is used primarily by external users ,b.must follow GAAP ,c. is required by
taxing authorities such as the IRS ,d. is optional
2.Which of the following is a period expense? a.rent on factory building ,b.raw materials ,c.depreciation
on production equipment ,d.commissions paid to sales personnel
3.A form used to accumulate the cost of producing an item is called a(n) a.job-cost sheet, b.material
requisition ,c.balance sheet ,d.invoice
4.Why do we compute equivalent units differently for raw materials and conversion costs? a. raw
materials are more difficult to count, b. conversion costs are more difficult to count , c.they are
introduced into the process at different times , d. none of the above
5.Why is it necessary to compute equivalent units for separtely for materials and conversion costs? a.
mistakes are made in the accounting for these costs, b. materials and conversion enter the production
process at different rates, c. conversion costs are more difficult to estimate d.none of the above reasons
are true.
6. the margin of safety is the difference between (Points: 5)
a.total revenue and total fixed costs
b.expected level of sales and the break-even point
c.budgeted fixed costs and actual fixed costs
d.selling price and variable cost per unit
7.The contribution margin per unit is the difference between (Points: 5)
a.total revenue and total fixed costs
b.selling price and variable costs per unit
c.anticipated level of sales and break-even sales
d.budgeted fixed costs and actual fixed costs
8.Which of the following items on a variable costing income statement will change in direct proportion to
a change in units sold? (Points: 5)
a.sales, contribution margin, income
b.sales, variable costs, contribution margin
c.sales, variable costs, fixed costs
d.sales, fixed costs, net income
9.If the number of units sold is less than the number of units produced (Points: 5)
a.full costing and variable costing will yield the same net income
b.full costing will assign some fixed manufacturing overhead to the units in the ending inventory
c.net income will be higher under variable costing than under full costing
d.inventory levels will decrease
10.A major problem with cost-plus contracts is that they (Points: 5)
a.are not acceptable under GAAP
b.cause suppliers to significant financial risks
c.require suppliers to use variable costing
d.create an incentive to allocate as much cost as possible to the goods produced under the cost-plus
contract
11.Which of the following steps is not involved in the ABC approach? (Points: 5)
a.identify activities which cause costs to be incurred.
b.allocate costs to products based on activity usage
c.group costs of activities into cost pools
d.Improve processes based on benchmarking
12.Which of the following is never considered in incremental analysis? (Points: 5)
a.incremental revenues
b.sunk costs
c.incremental profit
d.differential costs
13Fixed costs that will be eliminated if a particular course of action is undertaken are called (Points: 5)
optional costs
opportunity costs
direct costs
avoidable costs
14.Target costing (Points: 5)
a.starts with the features a customer wants and what they will pay for them
b.is used after the product is designed
c.focuses on including all features in a product that a customer may want
d.all of the above
15.Customer profitability analysis would trace which of the following to each customer? (Points: 5)
sales revenue
cost of goods sold
cost of filling the customer order
all of the above
16.Present value techniques (Points: 5)
ignore cash flows that will occur more than ten years in the future
are a way of converting future dollars into equivalent current dollars
provide more conservative results than similar time value of money computations
treat dollars received today the same as dollars received in the future.
17.Which of the following techniques uses time value of money? (Points: 5)
payback period
internal rate of return
accounting rate of return
relative sales value method
18. TCO10. The ratio that measures the return earned independently of how the firm is financed is the
(Points: 5)
return on stockholders' equity
price earnings ratio
earnings per share
return on assets
19. TCO10. Asset turnover is a measure of (Points: 5)
a.how quickly a company is moving its inventory
b.how quickly a company is turning it accounts receivable into cash
c.the overall efficiency with which the company uses its assets to generate revenues
d.how rapidly the market believes the company will grow
20. TCO10. Which ratio measures the rate earned on total capital provided by the owners? (Points: 5)
return on assets
return on stockholders' equity
earnings per share
price earnings ratio
21. TCO10. In general, an unfavorable material variance arises from (Points: 5)
using more material than planned
paying a higher price for material than planned
both A and B
none of the above
22. TCO10. Why is ROI better than income as a measurement of performance for an investment center?
(Points: 5)
ROI follows GAAP
ROI is simpler to compute than income
ROI considers the amount invested as well as the net income
ROI is forward looking
23. TCO10. Which of the following is a responsibility that distinguishes an investment center manager
from a profit center manager? (Points: 5)
setting prices for products
controlling costs
generating revenues
significant influence over investment decisions
24. TCO10. A subunit that has responsibility for controlling cost but not revenues is a(n)? (Points: 5)
profit center
cost center
investment center
business center
