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Accounting Vocabulary Chp.2
Chp.2 Vocabulary
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Accounting
Undergraduate 3
04/09/2009

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Cost Accounting
Definition
an area of accounting that involves measuring, recording, and reporting product costs
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Cost Accounting System
Definition
Manufacturing- cost accounts that are fully integrated into the general ledger of a company
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Job Cost Sheet
Definition
A form used to record the costs chargeable to a specific job and to determine the total and unit costs of the completed job
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Job order cost system
Definition
A cost accounting system in which costs are assigned to each job or batch
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Materials Requisition Slip
Definition
A document authorizing the issuance of raw materials from the stroeroom to production
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Overapplied Overhead
Definition
A situation in which overhead assigned to work in process is greater than the overhead incurred
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Predetermined overhead rate
Definition
A rate based on the relationshiop between estimated annual overhead costs and expected annual operating activity, expressed in terms of a common activity base
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Process cost system
Definition
A cost accounting system used when a company manufactures a large volume of similar products
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Summary entry
Definition
A journal entry that summarized the totals from multiple transactions
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Time ticket
Definition
A docutment that indicates the employee, the hours worked, the account and job to be charged, and the total labor cost
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Underapplied Overhead
Definition
A situation in which overhead assigned to work in process is less than the overhead incurred.
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