Managerial Accounting 101 | This is going to "cost" you! | It's as easy as ABC | Sally won the lottery and is feeling generous | Managerial Accounting Potpourri |
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What is Controlling
Managers of a company carry out four main activities: Strategy, planning, implementation and this activity
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What are Product Manufacturing costs
This type of cost includes: Direct materials, direct labour and manufacturing overhead costs
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What is Activity Based Costing
This form of costing can assign both manufacturing and non manufacturing costs to products
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What is a variable cost
The total of this type of cost varies with activity level, aka pop
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What is the High-Low Method
This method is used to determine the fixed and variable portions of a mixed cost
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Who are managers inside the organization
The preparation of managerial accounting documents are mainly for these people
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What are conversion costs
This type of cost includes direct labour and manufacturing overhead
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What is an Activity cost pool
This is the sum of costs in each activity
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What is a fixed cost
The total of this type of cost does not vary with activity level, aka pizza
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What is Transfer Pricing
This is the price charged between divisions of the same company
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What is globalization
Organizations must find new ways to conduct business to stay competitive due to this important factor
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What are period costs
This type of cost includes selling and administrative costs
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What is a Duration Driver
This is used in measuring an activity in ABC, for example, the number of labour hours performed
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What is a fixed cost
This type of cost changes per unit, based upon activity level, aka pizza
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What is the Contribution Margin per unit
This is the difference between the sales price per unit minus the variable expense per unit
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What is GAAP/IFRS
Managerial accounting reports do not need to follow this legally required system of financial accounting
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What are Sunk costs
These costs have already been incurred and cannot be changed now or in the future
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What is Customer-level Activity
This type of ABC activity may include sales calls, catalogue mailings and general technical support that isn't tied to a specific product
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What is a variable cost
This type of cost stays constant on a per unit basis no matter, aka pop
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What is the Break-even point
This is the level of sales when profit is $0
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What is the Lean Business Model
This type of business model focuses on the elimination of waste in a company
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What is cost per equivalent unit
This cost is equal to: Total investment units divided by total equivalent units
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What is see answer
DAILY DOUBLE
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What is the relevant range
This is the range of activity in which the assumptions of fixed and variable costs are valid
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What is the Margin of Safety
The Sales of a company minus the Break-even point is used to calculate this
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