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ACC 2203 Study Sheet

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CHAPTER 1
Managerial Accounting and Cost Concepts
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Costs are split into two groups:
Manufacturing Costs
Nonmanufacturing Costs
Manufacturing Costs:
Direct Materials
- Materials that go into the final product
Direct Labor -
Labor costs that can be traced into parts of the product
Manufacturing Overhead - all manufacturing costs except direct materials/labor
, such as
Indirect
Materials, Indirect Labor, Maintenance and Repairs on Production Equipment, property taxes, depreciation and insurance on manufacturing facilities
. (
Costs associated with selling/administrative expenses are not included!!!
)
Nonmanufacturing Costs:
These costs are …show more content…

Merchandise Inventory + Purchases - End Merchandise Inventory

Contribution Format Income Statement:
Contribution Margin - amount remaining from sales revenues after variable expenses have been deducted Essentially contribution margin is the amount that contributes to fixed expenses and profits
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Direct and Indirect Costs:
Cost Objects is anything that can be assigned cost data (products, customers, jobs etc)
Direct costs are costs that can be traced to a specific cost object
.
Indirect costs cannot be easily traced to a specific cost object.
Sunk Costs are costs that have already been incurred and cannot be changed by any decision made now or in the future
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CHAPTER 2
Job-Order Costing
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Job Order Costing is used when many different products are produced each period. Costs are traced and allocated to jobs
, and the costs of the job are then divided by the number of units to find the average cost per unit.
Predetermined Overhead Rate

When using job-order costing, we cannot simply assign manufacturing overhead to specific jobs.
Manufacturing Overhead is an
INDIRECT cost
, and will be impossible to trace to specific jobs.
Instead, we use an allocation base
, such as

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