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cost accounting chapter 5-9
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Accounting
Undergraduate 3
11/10/2008

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product costs
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direct and indirect costs of producing goods or services
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process costin
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allocates both direct and overhead costs to continuous flow processing lines
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job costing
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the process of assigning costs to custom products or services
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source documents
Definition
manual or electronic records created to capture and provide info about transactions or events
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job cost record
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contains all of the costs traced and assigned to a specific job
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cost pool
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a group of individual costs that are accumulated for a particular purpse
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allocation base
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assigns overhead costs to cost objects
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actual costing
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overhead is allocated using the actual volume of the allocation base times the actual allocation rate
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normal costing
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estimated allocation rate and actual quantity of the allocation base are used to allocate overhead
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spoilage
Definition
units of product that are unacceptiable and are discarded, reworked, or sold at a reduced price
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normal spoilage
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consists of defective units that arise as part of regular operations
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abnormal spoilage
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spoilage that is not part of everyday operations
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rework
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spoiled units that are repaired and sold as if they were originally produced correctly
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scrap
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the bits of direct material left over from normal manufacturing
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conversion costs
Definition
direct labor and production overhead costs
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equivalent units
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measure the resources used in partially completed units relative to the resources needed to complete the units
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standard cost
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the cost managers expect to incur for production of goods or services under operating plan assumptions
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hybrid costing
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approach used to assign product costs by applying a combination of both job and process costing
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operation costing
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producing the same units in different ways (laptops)
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committed costs
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remain fixed regardless of activity levels
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