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1. (TCO A) Wages paid to an assembly line worker in a factory are a (Points : 6)

Prime Cost YES..Conversion Cost NO.

Prime Cost YES..Conversion Cost YES.
Prime Cost NO.Conversion Cost NO.
Prime Cost NO..Conversion Cost YES.

Question 2.2. (TCO A) The costs of staffing and operating the accounting department at Central H
would be considered by the Department of Surgery to be (Points : 6)

direct costs.
sunk costs.
incremental costs.
None of the above

Question 3.3. (TCO A) Depreciation of office buildings and office equipment is also known as

variable costs.
conversion costs.
product costs.
period costs.

Question 4.4. (TCO A) When the activity level is expected to increase within the relevant range, w
effects would be anticipated with respect to each of the following? (Points : 6)

Fixed costs per unit increase and variable costs per unit increase.
Fixed costs per unit decrease and variable costs per unit do not change.
Fixed costs per unit do not change and variable costs per unit do not change.
Fixed costs per unit do not change and variable costs per unit increase.

Question 5.5. (TCO F) Emco Company uses direct labor cost as a basis for computing its predeterm
overhead rate. In computing the predetermined overhead rate for last year, the company
labor cost a portion of indirect labor. The effect of this misclassification will be to (Points : 6)

understate the predetermined overhead rate.

overstate the predetermined overhead rate.
have no effect on the predetermined overhead rate.
This cannot be determined from the information given.

Question 6.6. (TCO F) Under a job-order costing system, the product being manufactured

is homogeneous.
passes from one manufacturing department to the next before being completed.
can be custom manufactured.
has a unit cost that is easy to calculate by dividing total production costs by the units produced.

Question 7.7. (TCO F) The FIFO method only provides a major advantage over the weighted-avera
method in that (Points : 6)

the calculation of equivalent units is less complex under the FIFO method.
the FIFO method treats units in the beginning inventory as if they were started and completed
during the current period.
the FIFO method provides measurements of work done during the current period.
the weighted-average method ignores units in the beginning and ending work-in-process
inventories.

Question 8.8. (TCO B) The contribution margin equals (Points : 6)

sales expenses.
sales cost of goods sold.
sales variable costs.
sales fixed costs.

Question 9.9. (TCO B) The unit sales needed to attain the target profit is found by (Points : 6)

dividing fixed costs by the contribution margin.

adding variable expenses to fixed expenses and dividing the total by the contribution margin.
adding target profit to the fixed expenses and then dividing the total by the unit contribution
margin.
adding target profit to the fixed expenses and then dividing the total by the contribution margin.

Question 10.10. (TCO E) Under variable costing, (Points : 6)

net operating income will tend to move up and down in response to changes in levels of
production.
inventory costs will be lower than under absorption costing.
net operating income will tend to vary inversely with production changes.
net operating income will always be higher than under absorption costing.

1.

(TCO A) The following data (in thousands of dollars) have been taken from the
accounting records of Larden Corporation for the just-completed year.

Sales

$950

Purchases of raw materials

$170

Direct labor

$210

Manufacturing overhead

$220

Administrative expenses

$180

Selling expenses

$140

Raw materials inventory, beginning

$70

Raw materials inventory, ending

$80

Work-in-process inventory, beginning $30

Work-in-process inventory, ending

$20

Finished goods inventory, beginning $100

Finished goods inventory, ending

$70

Prepare a Schedule of Cost of Goods Manufactured statement in the text box below.
(Points : 15)
2. (TCO F) The Colorado Company manufactures a product that goes through three
processing departments. Information relating to activity in the first department during
June is given below.
Percentage Completed
3.
Units

Materials

Conversion

Work in process, June 1

80,000

65%

45%

Work in process, Jun 30

65,000

75%

65%

The department started 325,000 units into production during the month and transferred
340,000 completed units to the next department.

Required: Compute the equivalent units of production for the first department for June,
assuming that the company uses the weighted-average method of accounting for units and
costs.
(Points : 20)
3. (TCO B) A cement manufacturer has supplied the following data.
Tons of cement produced and sold

220,000

Sales revenue

$924,000

Variable manufacturing expense

$297,000

Fixed manufacturing expense

$280,000

Variable selling and admin expense $165,000

Fixed selling and admin expense

$82,000

Net operating income

$100,000

Required:
1.

Calculate the companys unit contribution margin.

2.

Calculate the companys contribution margin ratio.

3.

If the company increases its unit sales volume by 5% without increasing its fixed
expenses, what would the companys net operating income be?

4. (TCO E) Maffei Company, which has only one product, has provided the following data
concerning its most recent month of operations.
Selling price

$175

Units in beginning inventory

Units produced

9,500

Units sold

8,000

Units in ending Inventory

1,500

Variable costs per unit:

Direct materials

$55

Direct labor

$38

Variable manufacturing overhead

$2

Variable selling and admin

$10

Fixed costs:
Fixed manufacturing overhead

$300,000

Fixed selling and admin

$125,000

Required:
1.

What is the unit product cost for the month under variable costing?

2.

What is the unit product cost for the month under absorption costing?

3.

Prepare an income statement for the month using the variable costing method.

4.

Prepare an income statement for the month using the absorption costing method.

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