Accounting revision

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Bachelors Degree Accounting Quiz on Accounting revision, created by Amy_B on 24/05/2013.
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Question 1

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Define direct materials
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  • Integral part of product that can be traced directly to it.
  • Anything that is not an indirect material

Question 2

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Define direct labour
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  • Easily traced to individual units of product.
  • Anything that does not include indirect labour

Question 3

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Define manufacturing costs
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  • Cannot be traced to individual product, includes indirect materials and indirect labour.
  • Includes manufacturing costs

Question 4

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Define non-manufactuing costs
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  • Includes marketing and selling costs to receive the order and the delivery and also administrative costs
  • Not manufacturing costs

Question 5

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Product costs
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  • They are expenses in the period in which the product is sold.
  • cost of products

Question 6

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Period costs
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  • They are treated as expenses in the period they are incurred.
  • costs of the period

Question 7

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Define cost behaviour
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  • How cost will react to changes in level of business activity
  • variable and fixed costs

Question 8

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Cost behaviour of variable costs
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  • Varies in direct proportion to changes in level of activity
  • variable

Question 9

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Cost behaviour of fixed costs
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  • Costs remain constant regardless of changes in level of activity
  • fixed

Question 10

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What are direct costs?
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  • Costs that can be easily traced to unit of product
  • directly

Question 11

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What are indirect costs?
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  • Costs that cannot be traced to product, common costs have a number of objective so cannot be traced to an individual.
  • not direct costs

Question 12

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What is differential costs/revenue?
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  • Difference between cost/revenue between alternatives. Increase in amount is incremental, decrease in amount is decremental.
  • difference between cost products

Question 13

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What is marginal revenue or marginal cost?
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  • Amount attained by one more unit of product
  • marginal amount

Question 14

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What are opportunity costs?
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  • Potential benefit that is given up when one alternative is selected over another
  • costs made from opportunities

Question 15

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What are sunk costs?
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  • Cannot be changed by any decision as they are not seen as differential costs.
  • costs that have decreased

Question 16

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Contribution Margin
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  • Is the amount remaining from sales revenue- variable expenses
  • The margin that is contributed
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