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What information would you obtain for making the decision of whether to add quiche and rack of lamb to your menu?
Calculate the average total cost per unit for the 8,000 units manufactured in May. Explain why this figure would not be useful to a manager
Distinguish between costing and cost accounting. What are the methods of costing that are used in cost accounting?
Define costing and discuss the objectives of cost accounting. Cost accounting assists: (a) in controlling efficiency; (b) in pricing products;
Explain briefly the role of a management accountant. What are the limitations of management accounting?
Provision of 10% is made for evaporation and minor losses due to seasonal variations. Calculate the rate at which these should be issued.
Find out the economic order quantity (EOQ) and ascertain the number of orders to be placed per year.
Determine the number of units of lower-quality direct materials that Tracer Company must enter into production in order to produce
Calculate price and quantity variances for direct materials and direct labor.
Discuss the benefits of a standard costing system for Tasty Apple. Discuss the president's concern about using the result of the engineering study
Explain why the beginning and ending balances in the cash are different, but the beginning and ending balances in the common stock account remain the same.
Compute the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances and the fixed overhead budget and volume variances for May.
Calculate the flexed budget and the kfey variances between budgeted and actual results.
Compute the following variances: Direct materials price and usage variances. Direct labor rate and efficiency variances.
Suggest some possible causes of an unfavorable direct labor efficiency variance.
What are control limits, and how are they set? Explain how the 2-, 3-, and 4-variance overhead analyses are related.
Develop the standard cost sheet for the prime costs of a 10-gallon batch of strawberry jam.
Compute the standard direct labor hours allowed for the production of 300,000 units.
Compute the rate variance and the efficiency variance for direct labor.
Compute the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances. How is the variable overhead spending variance like the price variances
Prepare the journal entries that reflect the following: Assignment of overhead to production. Recognition of the incurrence of actual overhead.
Prepare the journal entries associated with these variances. Break down the total budget variance for direct labor into a rate variance
Break down the total fixed overhead variance into a spending variance and a volume variance. Discuss the significance of each.
Compute price and usage variances for direct materials. Compute the direct labor rate and labor efficiency variances.
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