《15秋管理会计》3

北语15秋《管理会计》作业3满分答案一、单选题（共 5 道试题，共 20 分。

）1. 下列指标中是反指标的是＿。

A. 投资利润率B. 净现值C. 现值指数D. 投资回收期答案：D2. 生产何种产品的决策分析采用的决策方法是。

A. 差量利润分析法B. 单位小时贡献毛益分析法大众理财作业满分答案C. 贡献毛益总额分析法D. 成本平衡点法答案：A3. 产品增产的决策分析采用的决策方法是__ _。

A. 差量利润分析法B. 单位小时贡献毛益分析法C. 贡献毛益总额分析法D. 成本平衡点法答案：B4. 半成品立即出售或继续加工的决策分析采用的决策方法是_ _。

A. 差量分析法B. 单位小时贡献毛益分析法C. 贡献毛益总额分析法D. 成本平衡点法答案：A5. 一般来说，固定资产购置或建造的决策最常用的方法是＿。

A. 净现值法B. 投资利润率法C. 投资回收期法D. 现值指数法答案：A15秋《管理会计》作业3二、多选题（共 9 道试题，共 36 分。

）1. 短期经营决策包括。

A. 生产决策B. 销售决策C. 定价决策D. 存货决策答案：ABCD2. 贴现的方法包括。

A. 投资利润率法B. 净现值法C. 现值指数法D. 投资回收期法答案：BC3. 下列属于存货的特点的是。

A. 存货会停留在企业生产的某个环节上B. 存货是一种暂时被C. 存货是保证企业生产正常，顺利进行的不可缺少的物资储备D. 存货越多越好答案：ABC4. 非贴现的方法包括。

A. 投资利润率法B. 净现值法C. 现值指数法D. 投资回收期法答案：AD5. 长期投资决策的特点包括。

A. 投资项目的金额大B. 资金占用的时间较长C. 一次投放，分次收回D. 它对比短期经营决策来说，要承担更大的风险答案：ABCD6. 下列公式正确的是。

A. 复利终值＝现值×复利终值系数B. 复利现值＝终值×复利现值系数C. 年金终值＝年金额×年金终值系数D. ? 年金现值＝年金额×年金现值系数答案：ABCD7. 在计算资本成本时，不需要考虑所得税税率的是＿。

CHAPTER 4 COVERAGE OF LEARNING OBJECTIVESCHAPTER 4Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing4-A1 (20-30 min.)See Table 4-A1 on the following page.4-A2 (25-30 min.)1. Merchandise Inventories, 1,000 devices @ $97 $97,0002. Direct materials inventory $ 40,000Work-in-process inventory 0 Finished goods inventory 97,000 Total inventories $137,000 3.NILE ELECTRONICS PRODUCTSStatement of Operating IncomeFor the Year Ended December 31, 20X9Sales (9,000 units at $170) $1,530,000 Cost of goods sold:Beginning inventory $ 0Purchases 970,000Cost of goods available for sale $ 970,000Less ending inventory 97,000Cost of goods sold (an expense) 873,000 Gross margin or gross profit $ 657,000 Less other expenses: selling & administrative costs 185,000 Operating income (also income before taxesin this example) $ 472,000TABLE 4-A1STATEMENT OF OPERATING INCOME OPERATING INCOME BY PRODUCT LINEEXTERNAL REPORTING PURPOSE INTERNAL STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING PURPOSECustom Large SmallDetailed Std. Std. Cost Type, Assignment Method Sales $155,000 $30,000 $45,000 $80,000Cost of goods sold:Direct material 40,000 5,000 15,000 20,000 Direct, Direct TraceIndirect manufacturing 41,000 28,0001 5,000 8,000 Indirect, Alloc. – Mach. Hours81,000 33,000 20,000 28,000Gross profit 74,000 (3,000) 25,000 52,000Selling and administrative expenses:Commissions 15,000 1,500 3,500 10,000 Direct, Direct Trace Distribution to warehouses 10,400 1,0002 3,000 6,400 Indirect, Allocation - Weight Total selling and admin. expenses 25,400 2,500 6,500 16,400Contribution to corporate expensesand profit 48,600 $(5,500) $18,500 $35,600Unallocated expenses:Administrative salaries 8,000Other administrative expenses 4,000Total unallocated expenses 12,000Operating income before tax $ 36,6001 Total machine hours is 1,400 + 250 + 400 = 2,050. Indirect manufacturing cost per machine hour is then $41,000 ÷ 2,050 = $20. The al location to custom detailed is $20 × 1,400 machine hours = $28,000.2 Total weight shipped is 25,000 kg + 75,000 kg + 160,000 kg = 260,000 kg. Indirect distribution costs per kilogram is then $10,400 ÷ 260,000 kg = $0.04. The allocation to custom detailed is $0.04 × 25,000 kg = $1,000.技术资料专业整理4. ORINOCO, INC.Statement of Operating IncomeFor the Year Ended December 31, 20X9Sales (9,000 units at $170)$1,530,000Cost of goods manufactured and sold:Beginning finished goods inventory $ 0Cost of goods manufactured:Beginning WIP inventory $ 0Direct materials used 530,000Direct labor 290,000Indirect manufacturing 150,000Total mfg. costs to account for $970,000Less ending work-in-process inventory 0 970,000Cost of goods available for sale $970,000Less ending finished goods inventory 97,000Cost of goods sold (an expense) 873,000Gross margin or gross profit $ 657,000 Less other expenses: selling and administrative costs 185,000Operating income (also income before taxesin this example) $ 472,0005. The balance sheet for the merchandiser (Nile) has just one line forinventories, the ending inventory of the items purchased for resale.The balance sheet for the manufacturer (Orinoco) has three items:direct materials inventory, work-in-process inventory, and finishedgoods inventory.The income statements are similar except for the computation of cost of goods available for sale. The merchandiser (Nile) simply showspurchases for the year plus beginning inventory. In contrast, themanufacturer (Orinoco) shows beginning work-in-process inventory plusthe three categories of cost that comprise manufacturing cost (directmaterials used, direct labor, and factory (or manufacturing) overhead)and then deducts the ending work-in-process inventory. The manufacturer then adds the beginning finished goods inventory to this cost of goodsmanufactured to get the cost of goods available for sale.6. The purpose is providing aggregate measures of inventory value and costof goods manufactured for external reporting to investors, creditors,and other external stakeholders.4-A3 (10-15 min.)There can be many justifiable answers for each item other than thelisted cost driver and behavior. The purpose of this exercise is togenerate an active discussion regarding those chosen by First Bank’smanagers. One point that should be emphasized is that many timesmanagers choose cost drivers that are not the most plausible or reliable because of lack of data availability. Cost drivers are also used as abasis to allocate activity and resource costs and so the availability of data is often an important consideration.ActivityOr CostResource Cost Driver Behaviora.* R Number of square feet Fb.** R Number of person hours Fc. R Number of computer transactions Vd. A Number of schedulese. R Number of person hours Ff. R Number of loan inquiries Vg.*** A Number of investmentsh. A Number of applicationsi. R Number of person hours Vj. R Number of minutes Vk. R Number of person hours Fl. A Number of loans* An argument can be made that maintenance of the building is an activity.If this was the case, resources such as supplies and labor would be resources consumed, and several resource cost drivers would be needed. In addition, a separate resource and associated cost driver would be needed for insurance costs. However, the company had a contract for maintenance (fixed price), so this was a fixed-cost resource that was added to other occupancy costs such as insurance. The cost driver chosen for all these occupancy costs was square feet occupied by the various departments.** Normally, the cost driver used for any labor resource is person hours.It is assumed that the staff person hours used are regular hours rather than overtime or temporary labor hours. Thus, the cost is fixed with respect to changes in hours used. As the hours used increases (decreases) theutilization of the resources increases (decreases) and eventually, management will need to make a decision whether to expand capacity (or whether to cutback on labor). This is an example of a step cost that is fixed over wideranges of cost-driver level.*** Students may try to determine the cost behavior of activities even thoughthe problem requirements do not ask for it. Point out that activities almostalways have mixed cost behavior because they consume various resources. Someof these are fixed-cost and others variable-cost resources. For example, theactivity “research to evaluate a loan application” consumes such fixed-costresources as manager labor time and computers (assumed owned by the bank).This activity also consumes variable-cost resources such as telecommunicationstime and external computing services.4-A4 (20-30 min.)1. The first step is to determine the cost per cost-driver unit for eachactivity:Monthly Cost- Cost perManufacturing Driver DriverActivity [Cost driver] Overhead Activity UnitMaterial Handling [Direct materials cost] $12,000 $200,000$ 0.06Engineering [Engineering change notices] 20,000 20 1,000.00Power [Kilowatt hours] 16,000 400,000 0.04Total Manufacturing Overhead $48,000Next, the costs of each activity can be allocated to each of the threeproducts:PHYSICAL FLOW / ALLOCATED COSTCost Senior Basic DeluxeMaterial Handling$.06 × 25,000 = $1,500$.06 × 50,000 = $ 3,000$.06 × 125,000 = $ 7,5 Engineering $1,000 × 13 = 13,000$1,000 × 5 = 5,000$1,000 × 2 = 2,000Power $.04 × 50,000 = 2,000$.04 × 200,000 = 8,000$.04 × 150,000 = 6,000 Total $16,500 $16,000 $15,5002. Overhead rate based on direct labor costs:Rate = Total manufacturing overhead ÷ Total direct labor cost= $48,000 ÷ $8,000 = $6.00/DL$Overhead allocated to each product is:Senior: $6.00 × 4,000 = $24,000Basic: $6.00 × 1,000 = 6,000Deluxe: $6.00 × 3,000 = 18,000Total $48,000Notice that much less manufacturing overhead cost is allocated to Basic using direct labor as a cost driver. Why? Because Basic uses only asmall amount of labor but large amounts of other resources, especially power.3. The product costs in requirement 1 are more accurate if the costdrivers are good indicators of the causes of the costs -- they are both plausible and reliable. For example, kilowatt hours is certainly abetter measure of the cost of power costs than is direct labor hours.Therefore, the allocation of power costs in requirement 1 is certainly better than in requirement 2. Materials handling and engineering arelikewise more plausible. A manager would be much more confident in the manufacturing overhead allocated to products in requirement 1.Remember, however, that there are incremental costs of data collection associated with the more accurate ABC system. The benefit/costcriteria must be applied in deciding which costing system is “best.”4-B1 (20-30 min.)See Table 4-B1 on the following page.4-B2 (25-30 min.)1. $1,080,000 ÷ 45,000 hours = $24 per direct-labor hour2. (a) $585,000 ÷ 15,000 hours = $39 per direct-labor hour(b) $495,000 ÷ 30,000 hours = $16.50 per direct-labor hour3. (a) $585,000 ÷ 97,500 hours = $6 per machine hour(b) $495,000 ÷ 30,000 hours = $16.50 per direct-labor hour4. (a) $24 × (1.0 + 14.0) = $360.00$24 × (1.5 + 3.0) = $108.00$24 × (1.3 + 8.0) = $223.20(b) ($39 × 1.0) + ($16.50 × 14.0) = $39.00 + $231.00 = $270.00($39 × 1.5) + ($16.50 × 3.0) = $58.50 + $ 49.50 = $108.00($39 × 1.3) + ($16.50 × 8.0) = $50.70 + $132.00 = $182.70(c) ($6 × 12.0) + ($16.50 × 14.0) = $ 72.00 + $231.00 = $303.00($6 × 17.0) + ($16.50 × 3.0) = $102.00 + $ 49.50 = $151.50($6 × 14.0) + ($16.50 × 8.0) = $ 84.00 + $132.00 = $216.00(d) First consider using departmental instead of firm-wide rates (partb vs. part a). Departmental rates that use direct-labor hours asthe base decrease the cost applied to units of A and C and leave B unaffected. Other products that use relatively less assembly time will increase in cost. Now examine changing to a base of machine hours in machining (part c vs. part a). Product B is the only one with an increase in cost in (c) compared to (a). Why? Because B's uses only 16% of the direct labor hours used for A, B, and C, so it is is allocated only 16% of the costs allocated on the basis ofdirect labor hours. But it uses 40% of the machine hours, andthere is allocated 40% of costs that are allocated on the basis on machine hours. Therefore, it receives relatively more costs with a base of machine hours than with a base of direct-labor hours.TABLE 4-B1STATEMENT OF OPERATING INCOME OPERATING INCOME BY PRODUCT LINEThousands of Dollars Lawn HandScooter Mower Tool Cost Type,Parts Parts Parts Assignment Method Sales $990 $350 $380 $260Cost of goods sold:Direct material 400 175 125 100 Direct, Direct Trace Indirect manufacturing 94 68 1 14 12 Indirect – Mach.Hrs494 243 139 112Gross profit 496 107 241 148Selling and administrative expenses:Commissions 55 25 20 10 Direct, Direct Trace Distribution to warehouses 150 20 2 80 50 Indirect - Weight Total selling and administrative expenses 205 45 100 60Contribution to corporate expenses and profit 291 $ 62 $141 $ 88Unallocated expenses:Corporate salaries 11Other general expenses 17Total unallocated expenses 28Operating income before tax $2631 Total machine hours is 8,500 + 1,750 + 1,500 = 11,750. Indirect manufacturing cost per machine hour isthen $94,000 ÷ 11,750 = $8. The allocation to scooter parts is $8 × 8,500 machine hours = $68,000.2 Total weight shipped is 100,000 kg + 400,000 kg + 250,000 kg = 750,000 kg. Indirect distribution costs perkilogram is then $150,000 ÷ 750,000 kg = $0.20. The allocation to scooter parts is $0.20 × 100,000 kg = $20,000.技术资料专业整理4-B3 (30-35 min.)1.The existing system allocates all costs based on direct labor cost. The rate for allocating indirect production costs is:Estimated indirect production cost ÷ Estimated direct labor cost= ¥24,500,000 ÷ ¥35,000,000 = 70%That is, each time ¥1 is spent on direct labor, Watanabe adds ¥0.7 of indirect production cost to the cost of the product.2. Under an ABC system, Watanabe would allocate indirect production costs separately for each activity. This would result in the following four allocation rates:Receiving: Receiving co sts ÷ Direct material cost=¥4,800,000 ÷ 60,000,000 = ¥0.08 per ¥1of dir. mat. Assembly: Assembly costs ÷ Number of control units=¥13,800,000 ÷ 92,000 = ¥150 per control unitQual. Control: Quality control cost ÷ QC hours=¥1,800,000 ÷ 600 = ¥3,000 per QC hourShipping: Shipping cost ÷ # of boxes shipped=¥4,100,000 ÷ 8,200 = ¥500 per box shipped3. (a) The cost will contain 3 components (in thousands of yen):Direct material ¥ 8,000Direct labor 2,000Indirect production cost (¥2,000 × .7 = 1,400) 1,400Total cost ¥11,400Price (¥11,400 × 1.3)¥14,820(b) The cost will have 7 components, 4 of them allocating indirect production costs (totals in thousands of yen):Direct materials ¥ 8,000Direct labor 2,000Receiving (¥0.08 × 8,000)¥640Assembly (¥150 × 5,000)750Quality control (¥3,000 × 50)150Shipping (¥500 × 600) 300Total indirect production cost 1,840Total cost ¥11,840 Price (11 ,840 × 1.3)¥15,3924. The order from Nissan requires a relatively large amount of receiving, quality control, and shipping resources compared to the relative amount of labor required. This makes its indirect production costs are relatively expensive relative to the labor required. The following illustrates why an allocation on the basis of labor cost results in less costs than allocations based on the four activities:Budgeted Cost- Nissan Cost- NissanActivity Allocation Base Allocation Base Percentage Direct materials 60,000,000 8,000,000 13.3%Direct labor 35,000,000 2,000,000 5.7 Receiving 60,000,000 8,000,000 13.3 Assembly 92,000 5,000 5.4 Quality control 600 50 8.3 Shipping 8,200 600 7.3Using the single direct-labor cost-allocation base, this order would receive 5.7% of all indirect production costs. The main reason that indirect production costs for this order under the ABC system are relatively high is the large relative cost of materials that drives a large allocation (13.3%) of receiving costs to this order. The allocations of both quality control and shipping costs are slightly larger that they would be using a direct-labor cost-allocation base, while the allocation of assembly costs is slightly smaller.4-B4 (50-60 min.)1. A summary of the analyses follows.Pen Cell-PhoneCasings Casings CompanyBase Gross Profit Percentage* 1.25% 38.75% 8.07% Plan Gross Profit Percentage** 10.80% 37.20% 17.40% Support of Product Manager? Strong NoneSupport of President? Moderate* See Exhibit 4-6 on p. 136 of the text.** See Panel B of Exhibit 4-B4 that follows.Exhibit 4-B4, Panels A and B on the following pages can be used to explain the impact of the controller’s idea using the process map of the traditional costing system and the related financial reports. Notice that the $80,000 annual decrease in the cost of engineers needs to be converted to a $20,000 quarterly savings. The controller’s idea will result in an increase of 9.55%in the gross profit of the pen-casings line but a decrease of 1.55% in thecell-phone line. The product manager of pen casings would probably give strong support to the idea but the cell-phone casings manager would most likely not support the idea.Although the company-level gross profit margin improves, the president’s support may not be strong. Why? There is not a strong consensus among product-line managers. Top management is normally hesitant to support actions that do not have the unanimous support among product-line managers unless there is solid evidence of material improvement in profitability. While the current loss would be reversed, the return on sales is still nominal at 3,500 ÷ $480,000 = .73%.Exhibit 4-B4: Panel AProcess Map of Traditional Cost System[Direct Labor Hours = 4,500 +Exhibit 4-B4: Panel BPRO-FORMA FINANCIAL REPORTS:TRADITIONAL COST ALLOCATION SYSTEMSTATEMENT OF OPERTING INCOME CONTRIBUTION TO CORPORATE COSTSAND PROFIT [EXTERNAL REPORTING PURPOSE] [INTERNAL STRATEGIC DECISION MAKINGAND OPERATIONAL-CONTROL PURPOSE]Pen Casings Cell Phone CasingsSales $480,000 $360,000 $120,000 1 Cost of goods sold:Direct material 46,500 22,500 24,000 2 Direct labor 150,000 135,000 15,000Indirect manufacturing 200,000 163,636 3 36,364 4 Cost of goods sold 396,500 321,136 75,364 Gross profit 83,500 $ 38,864 $ 44,636 Corporate expenses (unallocated) 80,000Operating income $ 3,500Gross profit margin 17.40% 10.80% 37.20%1. $80,000 × .75 × 22. $12,000 × 23. $200,000 × [4,500/(4,500 + 1,000)]4. $200,000 × [1,000/(4,500 + 1,000)]5. $83,500/$480,000技术资料专业整理Perhaps the most important factor bearing on the president’s support is lack of confidence in the accuracy of the cost and hence gross margin figures. She probably will inquire whether the shift in the consumption percentages by the two activities is captured by the traditional costing system. Does the change in allocation rates from 90:10 to 82:18 based on direct labor hour changes accurately capture the impact of the operational changes? An informal analysis of the controller’s idea might look like the following table.Based on the informal analysis, the President probably would expect the profitability of cell-phone casings to improve and the profitability of pen casings to be unaffected. This disagrees with the numerical analysis. Given the propensity of managers to embrace numerical results, less weight will likely be given this analysis compared to the “objective” numbers. As a result, she may question the validity of the numerical analysis as well as the value of the traditional costing system!Finally, the focus of improvement efforts should be directly on the pen-casing product line. This initiative deals mostly with the cell-phone line. What can be done to improve profitability of the pen casings? Can prices be raised without losing too much volume? Can operational improvements be made to lower the indirect manufacturing costs? The controller’s idea is worthy of some support but it does not address the profitability issue head on.2. Exhibit 4-B4, Panel C on the following page is a process map that can be used to explain the impact of the controller’s idea. Panel D at the end of the solution provides a detailed evaluation of the controller’s idea.Pen Cell-PhoneCasings Casings Company Base Gross Profit Percentage* 16.22% (28.63%) 8.07% Plan Gross Profit Percentage** 17.26% 17.81% 17.40% Support of Product Manager? Neutral StrongSupport of President? Strong* See the table on p. 139 of the text.** See panel D of Exhibit 4-B4 that follows.The controller’s idea will result in a slight increase in the gross profit of the pen-casings line but a dramatic turnaround in the profitability of thecell-phone line. The product manager of pen casings would probably be neutral or slightly positive about the idea because the idea does not focus on operational improvements that directly affect the pen-casings line. The cell-phone casings manager would give strong support to the idea – this may save his/her job! The president would strongly support this idea while encouraging all managers involved to keep up the good work. Also, note that the numbers agree with the informal analysis – generating confidence in the integrity of the cost accounting system.Exhibit 4-B4, Panel CProcess Map for ABC SystemExhibit 4-B4: Panel DPRO-FORMA FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR LOPEZ PLASTICS COMPANY:ACTIVITY-BASED COST ALLOCATION SYSTEMSTATEMENT OF OPERTING INCOME CONTRIBUTION TO CORPORATE COSTSAND PROFIT [EXTERNAL REPORTING PURPOSE] [INTERNAL STRATEGIC DECISION MAKINGAND OPERATIONAL-CONTROL PURPOSE]Pen Casings Cell Phone Casings Sales $480,000 $360,000 $120,000 Cost of goods sold:Direct material 46,500 22,500 24,000 Direct labor 150,000 135,000 15,000Processing activity 154,000 126,000 128,000 2Production support activity 46,000 14,375 3 31,625 4 Cost of goods sold 396,500 297,875 98,625 Gross profit 83,500 $ 62,125 $ 21,375 Corporate expenses (unallocated) 80,000Operating loss $ 3,500Gross profit margin 17.26% 17.81%1. $154,000 × [4,500 labor hours/(4,500 labor hours + 1,000 labor hours)]2. $154,000 × [1,000 labor hours/(4,500 labor hours + 1,000 labor hours)]3. $46,000 × [5 distinct parts/(5 distinct parts + 11 distinct parts)]4. $46,000 × [11 distinct parts/(5 distinct parts + 11 distinct parts)]技术资料专业整理3. As vice president, you probably are pleased with the new ABC system. The cost drivers that are used to allocate activity costs appear to be plausible and reliable and thus probably represent a sound cause-effect model of operations. This will improve both the accuracy of product costing and operating managers’ control over costs. Operating managers will be pleased with the ABC system because it helps them understand how their day-to-day work impacts costs and profits. From a behavioral perspective, this should behighly motivational.This problem emphasizes the importance of the cost-accounting system to managers. Different systems can result in significantly different management decisions. In this case, the product-line managers’ support for the controller’s idea changes when an ABC system is used to evaluate the idea. Although the company-level gross margins do not change, it is possible thatthe president would strongly support the idea based on ABC data. Why? Neither of the product-line managers is against the idea, and one strongly supports it. In addition, the president may have more confidence in the accuracy of the ABC analysis. The substantial losses of the current quarter have been completely eliminated and the serious profitability problem of the cell-phone casing product line has been reversed.4-1 A cost management system is a collection of tools and techniques that identifies how management’s decisions affect costs. The three purposesof a CMS are to provide1.cost information for operational control,2.cost information for strategic decisions, and3.measures of inventory value and cost of goods manufactured (orpurchased) for external reporting to investors, creditors, and otherexternal stakeholders.4-2 a. The production manager needs operational control information.b. Setting the product mix is a strategic decision.c. The cost of inventory that appears on the balance sheet is information that is used by external investors, creditors, and other stakeholders.4-3 Cost objects are any items for which decision makers desire a separate measurement of costs. They include departments, products, services, territories, and customers.4-4 No. Products are one of the main cost objects for most companies, but departments are also important cost objects because they represent a logical grouping of activities for which managers desire a separate determination of costs.4-5 The major purpose of a detailed cost-accounting system is to measure costs for decision making and financial reporting. Cost accounting systems become more detailed as management seeks more accurate data for decision making.4-6 The two major processes performed by a cost accounting system are cost accumulation and cost assignment. Cost accumulation is collecting costs by some “natural” classification, such as materials or labor, or by activities performed such as order processing or machine processing. Cost assignment is attaching costs to one or more cost objects, such as activities, processes, departments, customers, or products.4-7 Managers make important decisions on a daily basis. They base these decisions in large part on financial data provided by the cost accounting system. So it is critically important that the cost accounting system provide accurate and reliable financial information.4-8 Managers can specifically and exclusively identify direct costs with a given cost object (that is, directly trace them) in an economically feasible way. Indirect costs cannot be so identified. However, managers can usually identify a plausible and reliable cost driver to use to allocate resourcecosts to cost objects that consume the resources. When direct tracing is not economically feasible and a plausible and reliable cost driver cannot be found, costs should remain unallocated.4-9 Yes, the same cost (for example, the department supervisor's salary)can be direct with respect to a department but indirect with respect to the variety of products flowing through a department (e.g., tables, chairs, and cabinets).4-10 Some costs can be physically linked with a department (or a product), but not in an economically feasible way. An example is the use of departmental meters for measuring power usage. Such devices could measure power costs as direct costs of a department. The alternative is to regard factory power costs as indirect costs of individual departments. Managers often decide whether the resulting increased accuracy provided by individual power meters is worth their additional cost; thus, the test of economic feasibility will decide whether a particular cost is regarded as direct or indirect.4-11 The four purposes of cost allocation are (1) to predict the economic effects of strategic and operational control decisions, (2) to obtain desired motivation, (3) to compute income and asset valuations, and (4) to justify costs or obtain reimbursement.4-12 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) require publically-held companies to allocate all production-related costs and only production-related costs to its products for financial reporting to the public.4-13 No. The costs in a cost pool are not physically traced to cost objects. Only direct costs are traced to cost objects. A cost pool contains indirect costs that are allocated to cost objects using a single cost-allocation base.4-14 Some possible terms are reallocate, assign, distribute, redistribute, load, apportion, reapportion, and burden.4-15 For financial statement purposes, the typical accounting system does not allocate costs associated with value-chain functions other than production to the physical units produced. However, for guiding decisions regarding product-pricing and product-mix decisions, many companies allocate all costs, including R&D, design, marketing, distribution, and customer service costs. However, the allocations of these costs may not be embedded in the system that generates financial statements.4-16 Yes. The two criteria that should be met before using any measure as a cost-allocation base are economic plausibility and reliability. A measure should be plausible – make common sense. If managers cannot easily understand the logical relationship between a cost allocation-base and the costs of an activity or resource, managers will perceive the resulting allocations as arbitrary.4-17 Production maintenance costs are normally indirect. Sales commissions normally can be directly traced to specific products. The costs associated with process design are normally unallocated because it is too difficult to identify plausible and reliable cost-allocation bases, although some companies elect to allocate them.4-18 Generally not. They are direct as far as the physical product is concerned, but in accounting for their cost it would usually be impractical (too costly) to keep records of the amount of glue or tacks used in each unit of product. A more feasible method would be to consider these as supplies (indirect materials).4-19 Depreciation related to production activities is a product cost, not a period cost. Hence, it will become an expense as a part of manufacturing cost of goods sold. Thus, depreciation is not always an immediate expense.。

《管理会计》形考任务3一、单选题已知甲企业生产A、B两种产品，其单位贡献毛益率分别为25%和30%，销售比重分别为40%和60%,则用加权平均法计算综合贡献毛益率为（）。

A. 28%B. 17%C. 18%D. 27%正确答案是：28%已知某企业某产品的单价为50元，保本销售量为1 000 件，固定成本总额为30 000 元，则单位变动成本应控制在（）。

A. 10 元/件B. 20元/件C. 30 元/件D. 16 元/件正确答案是：20元/件已知企业只生产一种产品，单价5元，单位变动成本3元，固定成本总额600元，则保本销售量为（）。

A. 200件B. 400件C. 120件D. 300件正确答案是：300件生产多品种产品企业测算综合保本销售额=固定成本总额÷（）。

A. 贡献边际率B. 综合贡献边际率C. 单位贡献边际D. 单价一单位变动成本正确答案是：综合贡献边际率销售收入为40 万元，贡献毛益率为60% ，其变动成本总额为( )万元。

A. 16B. 240C. 160D. 24正确答案是：16某公司单位变动成本为6元，单价为10元，计划销售600件，欲实现利润740元，固定成本应控制在（）。

A. 1700元B. 1660元C. 1860元D. 1800元正确答案是：1660元某企业每月固定成本1000元，单价10元，计划销售600件。

欲实现目标利润800元，其单位变动成本为（）。

A. 8元B. 9元C. 7元D. 6元正确答案是：7元某企业只生产一种产品，该产品的贡献毛益率为70%，本期销售额为200 000元，营业利润为100 000元，则该产品的固定成本为( )元。

A. 10000B. 140000C. 40000D. 30000正确答案是：40000某产品单位变动成本30元，贡献毛益率为70%，则该产品单价为（）。

A. 100B. 95C. 110D. 105正确答案是：100当单位变动成本单独增加而其他因素均不变时，会引起（）。

《管理会计》15秋在线作业3
一、单选题（共10 道试题，共50 分。

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1. 下列项目中，能够克服定期预算缺点的是___。

A. 固定预算
B. 弹性预算
C. 滚动预算
D. 零基预算
标准答案：C
2. 现代管理会计中占核心地位的是___。

A. 预测决策会计
B. 规划控制会计
C. 成本会计
D. 责任会计
标准答案：A
3. 某项目贴现率5%，净现值为500，贴现率为8%时，净现值为-480，则该项目内含报酬率为___
A. 125%
B. 875%
C. 5%
D. 5%
标准答案：B
4. 某企业2001年计划第一、二、三月采购直接材料分别为3885元、5180元和5820元，采购当月支付购货款的60%，下月支付余下的40%,则企业将在三月份为采购直接材料支出现金___
A. 4841元
B. 4662元
C. 5564元
D. 以上答案均不对
标准答案：C
5. 产品的供需双方分别采用不同的价格作为内部转移价格的计价基础，这种转移价格被称为___
A. 成本加成价
B. 双重价格
C. 协商价格
D. 市场价格
标准答案：B
6. 飞机制造企业适宜采用的成本计算基本方法是___
A. 品种法。

成本与管理会计第15版亨格瑞简介《成本与管理会计》是由亨格瑞（Horngren）等人合著的一本经典教材，该教材详细介绍了成本和管理会计的基本概念、原则和技术。

本文将对该教材进行概览，探讨其中的关键内容。

第1章管理会计与组织绩效本章主要介绍管理会计的概念和作用，以及与组织绩效之间的关系。

管理会计是一种为管理决策提供支持的会计信息系统，通过提供与企业内部运营相关的成本和绩效信息，帮助管理层进行决策和控制。

第2章基本成本管理概念本章重点介绍成本管理的基本概念，包括成本对象、成本中心和成本效益分析等。

成本对象是指需要计算和分配成本的实体，成本中心是指组织内部负责经营活动的部门或单位，成本效益分析则是对不同决策方案进行成本与效益比较的方法。

第3章成本分类和费用估算本章讲解了成本分类和费用估算的方法和原则。

成本可以根据不同的分类方法进行归类，如按功能分类、按行业分类等。

费用估算的方法包括直接费用估算和间接费用估算，其中间接费用估算需要通过成本驱动因素进行分配。

第4章成本行为成本行为是指成本与产量或活动水平之间的关系。

本章将介绍常见的成本行为模式，如固定成本、变动成本和半固定成本。

了解成本行为模式有助于管理者预测和控制成本的变化。

第5章成本估算和预测成本估算和预测是管理会计的核心任务之一。

本章将介绍成本估算和预测的方法和技术，包括趋势分析、回归分析和敏感度分析等。

第6章作业成本系统作业成本系统是一种在生产中分配和追踪成本的方法。

本章将详细介绍作业成本系统的构成要素和运作流程，并介绍常见的作业成本方法，如作业订单和作业批次。

第7章过程成本系统过程成本系统是一种适用于连续流程生产的成本分配方法。

本章将介绍过程成本系统的特点和运作原理，以及与作业成本系统的异同。

第8章活动成本管理活动成本管理是一种基于活动的成本分析和管理方法。

本章将介绍活动成本管理的概念和技术，包括活动成本驱动因素的确定和活动成本分析模型的构建。

第9章管理会计信息系统管理会计信息系统是支持管理会计活动的信息系统。

CHAPTER 3 COVERAGE OF LEARNING OBJECTIVESCHAPTER 3Measurement of Cost Behavior3-A1 (20-25 min.) Some of these answers are controversial, and reasonable cases can be built for alternative classifications. Class discussion of these answers should lead to worthwhile disagreements about anticipated cost behavior with regard to alternative cost drivers.1. (b) Discretionary fixed cost.2. (e) Step cost.3. (a) Purely variable cost with respect to revenue.4. (a) Purely variable cost with respect to miles flown.5. (d) Mixed cost with respect to miles driven.6. (c) Committed fixed cost.7. (b) Discretionary fixed cost.8. (c) Committed fixed cost.9. (a) Purely variable cost with respect to cases of 7-Up.10. (b) Discretionary fixed cost.11. (b) Discretionary fixed cost.3-A2 (25-30 min.)1. Support costs based on 60% of the cost of materials:Sign A SignBDirect materials cost $400 $200Support cost (60% of materials cost) $240 $120Support costs based on $50 per power tool operation:Sign A SignBPower tool operations 3 6Support cost $150 $3002. If the activity analysis is reliable, by using the current method,Evergreen Signs is predicting too much cost for signs that use fewpower tool operations and is predicting too little cost for signs thatuse many power tool operations. As a result the company could belosing jobs that require few power tool operations because its bids are too high -- it could afford to bid less on these jobs. Conversely, thecompany could be getting too many jobs that require many powertool operations, because its bids are too low -- given what the "true"costs will be, the company cannot afford these jobs at those prices.Either way, the sign business could be more profitable if the ownerbetter understood and used activity analysis. Evergreen Signs wouldbe advised to adopt the activity-analysis recommendation, but also toclosely monitor costs to see if the activity-analysis predictions ofsupport costs are accurate.3-A3 (25-30 min.)1. High-Low Method:Support Cost Machine HoursHigh month = September $13,500 1,750Low month = May 9,000 850Difference $ 4,500 900Variable cost per machine hour = Change in cost ÷ Change in costdriver= $4,500 ÷ 900 = $5.00Fixed support cost per month = Total support cost - Variable supportcostAt the high point: = $13,500 - $5.00 × 1,750= $13,500 - $8,750= $ 4,750or at the low point: = $ 9,000 - $5.00 × 850= $ 9,000 - $4,250= $ 4,7502. The high-low method uses the high and low activity levels todetermine the cost function. Since the new October data for machinehours does not change either the high or low level there would be no change in the analysis.3. The regression analysis results differ from the results of the high-lowmethod. As a result, estimates of total support cost may differconsiderably depending on the expected machine hour usage. Forexample, consider the following support cost estimates at three levelsof machine hour usage (all within the relevant range):Machine Hour Usage950 Hours 1,200 Hours 1,450 HoursHigh-Low:Fixed $4,750 $ 4,750 $ 4,750 Variable: $5.00 × 950 4,750$5.00 × 1,200 6,000$5.00 × 1,450 7,250 Total $9,500 $10,750 $12,000Regression:Fixed $3,355 $ 3,355 $ 3,355 Variable: $6.10 × 950 5,795$6.10 × 1,200 7,320$6.10 × 1,450 8,845 Total $9,150 $ 10,675 $12,200Because the high-low method has a lower variable cost estimate, theregression-based predictions exceed the high-low-based predictions at higher levels of machine usage, while the high-low estimates aregreater at lower levels of usage. The high-low method used only twodata points, so the results may not be reliable. Fernandez would beadvised to use the regression results, which are based on all relevantdata.3-B1 (20-25 min.)The following classifications are open to debate. With appropriate assumptions, other answers could be equally supportable. For example, in #2, the health insurance would be a committed fixed cost if the number of employees will not change. This problem provides an opportunity to discuss various aspects of cost behavior. Students should make an assumption regarding the time period involved. For example, if the time period is short, say one month, more costs tend to be fixed. Over longer periods, more costs are variable. They also must assume something about the nature of the cost. For example, consider #4. Repairs and maintenance are often thought of as a single cost. However, repairs are more likely to vary with the amount of usage, making them variable, while maintenance is often on a fixed schedule regardless of activity, making them fixed.Another important point to make is the cost/benefit criterion applied to determining “true” cost behavior. A manager may accept a cost driver that is plausible but may have less reliability than an alternative due to the cost associated with maintaining data for the more reliable cost driver.Cost Cost Behavior Likely Cost Driver(s)1. X-ray operating cost Mixed Number of x-rays2. Insurance Step (or variable) Number of employees3. Cancer research Discretionary fixed4. Repairs Variable Number of patients5. Training cost Discretionary fixed6. Depreciation Committed fixed7. Consulting Discretionary fixed8. Nursing supervisors Step Number of nurses,patient-days3-B2 (25-30 min.) Board Z15 Board Q52 Mark-up method:Material cost $40 $60Support costs (100%) $40 $60Activity analysis method:Manual operations 15 7Support costs (@$4) $60 $28The support costs are different because different cost behavior is assumed by the two methods. If the activity analyses are reliable, then boards with few manual operations are overcosted with the markup method, and boards with many manual operations are undercosted with the markup method.3-B3 (25-30 min.)Variable cost per machine hour = Change in Repair Cost ÷ Change in Machine Hours= (P260,000,000 –P200,000,000) ÷ (12,000 –8,000)= P15,000 per machine hourFixed cost per month = total cost - variable cost= P260,000,000 - P15,000 × 12,000= P260,000,000 - P180,000,000= P 80,000,000 per monthor = P200,000,000 - P15,000 × 8,000= P200,000,000 - P120,000,000= P 80,000,000 per month3-1 A cost driver is any output measure that is believed to cause costs to fluctuate in a predictable manner. For example, direct labor costs areprobably driven by direct labor hours; materials costs are probablydriven by levels of product output; and support costs may be driven bya variety of drivers, such as output levels, product complexity, numberof different products and/or parts, and so on.3-2 Linear cost behavior assumes that costs behave as a straight line. This line is anchored by an intercept, or fixed cost estimate, and total costs increase proportionately as cost driver activity increases. The slope ofthe line is the estimate of variable cost per unit of cost driver activity.3-3 Whether to categorize a step cost either as a fixed cost or as a variable cost depends on the "size" of the steps (height and width) and on thedesired accuracy of the description of step cost behavior. If the stepsare wide, covering a wide range of cost driver activity, then within each range the cost may be regarded as fixed. If the steps are narrow andnot too high, with small changes in cost, then the cost may beregarded as variable over a wide range of activity level, with little error.If the steps are narrow and high, covering big changes in cost, then the cost probably should not be regarded as variable, since small changesin activity level can result in large changes in cost.3-4 Mixed costs are costs that contain both fixed and variable elements. A mixed cost has a fixed portion that is usually a cost per time period.This is the minimum mixed cost per period. A mixed cost also has avariable portion that is a cost per unit of cost driver activity. Thevariable portion of a mixed cost increases proportionately withincreases in the cost driver.3-5 In order to achieve the goals set for the organization, management makes critical choices -- choices that guide the future activities of theorganization. These choices include decisions about locations, products, services, organization structure, and so on. Choices about product orservice attributes (mix, quality, features, performance, etc.), capacity(committed and discretionary fixed costs), technology (capital/laborconsiderations, alternative technologies), and incentives (standard-based performance evaluation) can greatly affect cost behavior.3-6 Some fixed costs are called capacity costs because the levels of these fixed costs are determined by management's strategic decisions aboutthe organization's expected levels of activities, or capacity.3-7 Committed fixed costs are costs that are often driven by the planned scale of operations. These costs typically cannot be changed easily orquickly without drastically changing the operations of the organization.Typical committed fixed costs include lease or mortgage payments,property taxes, and long-term management compensation.Discretionary fixed costs are costs that may be necessary to achievecertain operational goals, but there are no contractual obligations tocontinue these payments. Typical discretionary fixed costs includeadvertising, research and development, and employee trainingprograms. The distinction between committed and discretionary fixedcosts is that discretionary fixed costs are flexible and could beincreased, decreased, or eliminated entirely on short notice if necessary, but committed fixed costs usually must be incurred for some time --greater effort is needed to change or eliminate them.3-8 Committed fixed costs are the most difficult to change because long-term commitments generally have been made. These long-termcommitments may involve legal contracts that would be costly torenegotiate or dissolve. Committed fixed costs also are difficult tochange because doing so may mean greatly changing the way theorganization conducts its activities. Changing these committed fixedcosts may also mean changing organization structure, location,employment levels, and products or services.3-9 An organization’s capacity generally determines its committed fixed costs. Management’s choice is the main influence on discretionaryfixed costs. Both committed and discretionary fixed costs depend onthe organization's strategy relating to capacity, product attributes, andtechnology. These elements will determine long-term costcommitments (committed costs) and flexible spending responses tochanges in the environment (discretionary costs).3-10 Both planning for and controlling discretionary costs are important. It is hard to say that one is more important than the other, but certainlyeffective use of discretionary costs requires prior planning. One would not know, however, if these costs had been effective in meeting goalsunless the organization has a reliable and timely control system -- ameans of checking accomplishments against goals.3-11 High technology production systems often mean higher fixed costs and lower variable costs.3-12 Incentives to control costs are means of making cost control in the best interests of the people responsible for making cost expenditures. Asimple example will illustrate the use of incentives to control costs.Assume that you are an executive who travels for business, purchasesprofessional literature, and keeps current with personal computertechnology. Under one incentive system, you simply bill theorganization for all your travel and professional expenses. Underanother system, you are given an annual budget for travel andprofessional needs. Which system do you think would cause you to be more careful about how you spend money for travel and professionalneeds? Most likely, the latter system would be more effective incontrolling costs. Usually these incentives are economic, but other non-financial incentives may also be effective.3-13 Use of cost functions, or algebraic representations of cost behavior, allows cost analysts or management to build models of theorganization's cost behavior. These models can be used to aidplanning and control activities. One common use of cost functions isin financial planning models, which are algebraic models of the costand revenue behavior of the firm, essentially extended C-V-P modelssimilar to those discussed in Chapter 2. Understanding relationshipsbetween costs and cost drivers allows managers to make betterdecisions.3-14 A "plausible" cost function is one that is intuitively sound. A cost function is plausible if a knowledgeable analyst can make soundeconomic justifications why a particular cost driver could cause the cost in question. A "reliable" cost function is one that accurately andconsistently describes actual cost behavior, past and future. Bothplausibility and reliability are essential to useful cost functions. It isdifficult to say that one is more important than the other, but onewould not have much confidence in the future use of a cost functionthat is not plausible, even if past reliability (e.g., based on statisticalmeasures) has been high. Likewise, one would not be confident usinga cost function that is highly plausible, but that has not been shown tobe reliable. The cost analyst should strive for plausible and reliablecost functions.3-15 Activity analysis identifies underlying causes of cost behavior (appropriate cost drivers) and measures the relationships of costs totheir cost drivers. A variety of methods may be used to measure costfunctions, including engineering analysis and account analysis.3-16 Engineering analysis is a method of identifying and measuring cost and cost driver relationships that does not require the use of historical data.Engineering analysis proceeds by the use of interviews, experimentation, and observation of current cost generating activities. Engineeringanalysis will be more reliable if the organization has had pastexperience with the activities.Account analysis is a method of identifying and measuring costs andcost driver relationships that depend explicitly on historical cost data.An analyst selects a single cost driver and classifies each cost accountas fixed or variable with respect to that cost driver. Account analysiswill be reliable if the analyst is skilled and if the data are relevant tofuture uses of the derived cost function.3-17 There are four general methods covered in this text to measure mixed costs using historical data: (1) account analysis, (2) high-low, (3) visualfit, and (4) regression.• Account analysis looks to the organization's cost accounts andclassifies each cost as either fixed, variable, or mixed with regard to anappropriate cost driver.• High-low analysis algebraically measures mixed cost behavior by con-structing a straight line between the cost at the highest activity leveland that at the lowest activity level.• Visual-fit analysis seeks to place a straight line among data points on a plot of each cost and its appropriate cost driver.• Regression analysis fits a straight line to cost and activity data according to statistical criteria.3-18 Engineering analysis and account analysis often are combined. One of the problems of account analysis is that historical data may containpast inefficiencies. Therefore, account analysis measures what costswere, not necessarily what they should be. Differences in future costsmay be desired and/or anticipated, and account analysis alone usuallywill not account for these differences. Engineering analysis may becombined with account analysis to revise account-based measures fordesired improvements in efficiency and/or planned changes in inputs or processes.3-19 The strengths of the high-low method are also its weaknesses -- the method is simple to apply since it does not require extensive data orstatistical sophistication. This simplicity also means that the methodmay not be reliable because it may not use all the relevant data thatare available, and choice of the two points to measure the linear costrelationship is subjective. The method itself also does not give anymeasures of reliability.The visual-fit method is an improvement over the high-low methodbecause it uses all the available (relevant) data. However, this method, too, may not be reliable since it relies on the analyst's judgment onwhere to place the line.3-20 The cost-driver level should be used to determine the two data points to be used to determine the cost function. Why? Because thehigh- and low-cost points are more likely to have measurement errors, an unusually high cost at the high-cost point and an unusually low cost at the low-cost point.3-21 Regression analysis is usually preferred to the high-low method (and the visual-fit method) because regression analysis uses all the relevantdata and because easy-to-use computer software does the analysis and provides useful measures of cost function reliability. The majordisadvantage of regression analysis is that it requires statisticalsophistication to use properly. Because the software is easy to use,many users of regression analysis may not be able to critically evaluate the output and may be misled to believe that they have developed areliable cost function when they have not.3-22 This is a deceptive statement, because it is true on the face of it, but regression also has many pitfalls for the unwary. Yes, regressionsoftware provides useful output that can be used to evaluate thereliability of the measured cost function. If one understands theassumptions of least-squares regression, this output can be used tocritically evaluate the measured function. However, the regressionsoftware cannot evaluate the relevance or accuracy of the data that are used. Even though regression analysis is statistically objective,irrelevant or inaccurate data used as input will lead to unreliable costfunctions, regardless of the strength of the statistical indicators ofreliability.3-23 Plotting data helps to identify outliers, that is, observations that are unusual and may indicate a situation that is not representative of theenvironment for which cost predictions are being made. It can alsoshow nonlinear cost behavior that can lead to transformations of thedata before applying linear regression methods.3-24 R2 is a goodness-of-fit statistic that describes the percentage of variation in cost explained by changes in the cost driver.3-25 Control of costs does require measurement of cost behavior, either what costs have been or what costs should be. Problems of work rules and the like may make changing cost behavior difficult. There aretradeoffs, of course, and the instructor should expect that studentscould get into an impassioned debate over where the balance lies --union job protection versus improved efficiency. This debate gets toone of the major roles of accounting in organizations, and it isimportant that students realize that accounting does matter greatly toindividuals, and, ultimately, to society.3-26 The fixed salary portion of the compensation is a fixed cost. It is independent of how much is sold. In contrast, the 5% commission is a variable cost. It varies directly with the amount of sales. Because thecompensation is part fixed cost and part variable cost, it is considered a mixed cost.3-27 Both depreciation and research and development costs are fixed costs because they are independent of the volume of operations.Depreciation is generally a committed fixed cost. Managers have littlediscretion over the amount of the cost. In contrast, research anddevelopment costs are discretionary fixed costs because their size isoften the result of management’s judgment.3-28 Decision makers should know a product’s cost function if their decisions affect the amount of product produced. To know the costimpact of their decisions, decision makers apply the cost function toeach possible volume of production. This is important in manydecisions, such as pricing decisions, promotion and advertisingdecisions, sales staff deployment decisions, and many more decisionsthat affect the volume of product that the company produces.3-29 Regression analysis is a statistical method of fitting a cost-function line to observed costs. It is objective; that is, each cost analyst would come up with the same regression line, whereas different analysts might have different cost functions when using a visual fit method. In addition,regression analysis provides measures of how well the cost-functionline fits the data, so that managers know how much reliance they canput on cost predictions that use the cost function.3-30 (5 min.) Only (b) is a step cost.(a) This is a fixed cost. The same cost applies to all volumes in therelevant range.(b) This is a true step cost. Each time 15 students are added, the costincreases by the amount of one teacher’s salary.(c) This is a variable cost that may be different per unit at differentlevels of volume. It is not a step cost. Why? Because each unit ofproduct requires a particular amount of steel, regardless of the form in which the steel is purchased.3-31 (5 min.) The $8,000 is a fixed cost and the $52 per unit is a variable cost. By definition, adding a fixed cost and a variable cost togetherproduces a mixed cost.3-32 (10-15 min.)1. Machining labor: G, number of units completed or labor hours2. Raw material: B, units produced; could also be D if the company’spurchases do not affect the price of the raw material.3. Annual wage: C or E (depending on work levels), labor hours4. Water bill: H, gallons used5. Quantity discounts: A, amount purchased6. Depreciation: E, capacity7. Sheet steel: D, number of implements of various types8. Salaries: F, number of solicitors9. Natural gas bill: C, energy usage3-33 (15 min.)The analysis is faulty because of the following errors.1. The scales used for both axes are incorrect. The space between equalintervals in number of orders and order-department costs should bethe same.2. The visual-fit line is too high, and the slope is too steep. It appears thatthe line has been purposely drawn to pass through the (100,450) datapoint and the $200 point on the y-axis to simplify the analysis. Avisual-fit line most often will not pass through any one data point.Choosing one point (any point) or a data point and the Y-interceptmakes this similar to the high-low method, ignoring much of theinformation contained in the rest of the data.3. The total cost for 90 orders is wrong. Either the fixed costs should beexpressed in thousands of dollars or the unit variable costs should be$2,000 per order. Even if the derived total cost function was accurate,the resulting cost prediction is incorrect. The formula should beexpressed as:Total cost (thousands of dollars) = $200 + $2.50 × Number of orders processed, orTotal cost = $200,000 + $2,500 × Number of orders processedThis would result in a predicted total cost for 90 orders of:Total cost (thousands of dollars) = $200 + $2.50 × 90 = $425, orTotal cost = $200,000 + $2,500 × 90 = $425,000.Correct AnalysisThe following graph has correctly constructed scales. The visual fit lineshown indicates that fixed costs are about $200,000 and variable cost isabout $2,250 per order – a lower slope than that shown in the text.The total cost function is:Total cost (thousands of dollars) = $200 + $2.25 × Number of orders, or Total cost = $200,000 + $2,250 × Number of ordersVariable cost (thousands of dollars) $180 ÷ 80 orders = $2.25The predicted total cost for 90 orders is:Total cost = $200,000 + $2,250 × 90 = $200,000 + $202,500 = $402,500.3-34 (15-20 min.) Amounts are in millions.1. 2001 2002Sales revenues $57 $116Less: Operating income (loss) (19) 18Operating expenses $76 $ 982. Change in operating expenses ÷ Change in revenues = Variable cost percentage($98 - $76) ÷ ($116 - $57) = $22 ÷ $59 = .37 or 37%Fixed cost = Total cost – Variable cost= $76 - .37 × $57= $55or= $98 - .37 × $116= $55Cost function = $55 + .37 × Sales revenue3. Because fixed costs to not change, the entire additional totalcontribution margin is added to operating income. The $57 salesrevenue in 2001 generated a total contribution margin of $57 × (1 - .37) = $36, which was $19 short of covering the $55 of fixed cost. But theadditional $59 of sales revenue in 2002 generated a total contributionmargin of $59 × (1 - .37) = $37 that could go directly to operatingincome because there was no increase in fixed costs. It wiped out the$19 operating loss and left $18 of operating income.3-35 (10-15 min.)1. Fuel costs: $.40 × 16,000 miles per month = $6,400 per month.2. Equipment rental: $5,000 × 7 × 3 = $105,000 for seven pieces ofequipment for three months3. Ambulance and EMT cost: $1,200 × (2,400/200) = $1,200 × 12 =$14,4004. Purchasing: $7,500 + $5 × 4,000 = $27,500 for the month.3-36 (10-15 min.) There may be some disagreement about these classifications, but reasons for alternative classifications should be explored.Cost Discretionary Committed Advertising $22,000Depreciation $ 47,000 Company health insurance 21,000 Management salaries 85,000 Payment of long-term debt 50,000 Property tax 32,000 Grounds maintenance 9,000Office remodeling 21,000Research and development 46,000Totals $98,000 $235,0003-37 (15-20 min.)This problem extends the chapter analysis to preview short-run decision making and capital budgeting. This problem ignores taxes, invest-ment cost, and the time value of money, which are covered in Chapter 11.Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Variable cost per order $8.00 $4.00 Expected number of orders 70,000 70,000 Annual variable costs $560,000 $280,000 Annual fixed cost 200,000 400,000 Annual total costs $760,000 $680,000Therefore, Alternative 2 is less costly than Alternative 1 by $80,000.Let X = the break-even number of orders, the level at which expected costs are equal.Costs for Alternative 1 = Costs for Alternative 2$200,000 + $8X = $400,000 + $4X$4X = $200,000X = 50,000 ordersAt 50,000 orders, the alternatives are equivalent. If order levels are expected to be below 50,000 orders, then Alternative 1 would have lower costs because fixed costs are lower. If orders are expected to be greater than 50,000, then Alternative 2 would have lower costs because variable costs are lower.3-38 (20-25 min.) A master of the scatter-diagrams with least-square regression lines and high-low lines appears in Exhibit 3-38 on the following page.This exercise enables a comparison of the high-low and visual-fit methods of decomposing mixed-costs into fixed and variable parts. Students find it interesting to compare their best guesses to the least-squares regression results. They find it interesting that a fairly complete and accurate analysis is possible based on a scatter-diagram and a little common sense. We normally have the class determine a “class best guess” before showing the transparency of the regression results.The exercise also introduces students to the concept of a hierarchy of activity levels, although this topic is not covered in the text. The literature contains discussions of four general levels of activities. Recognizing each of these levels can be an aid in choosing appropriate cost drivers. These levels and example cost drivers are:a. Unit-level activities -- performed each time a unit is produced (units ofproduct, machine hours, labor hours).b. Batch-level activities -- performed each time a batch of goods isprocessed or handled (number of orders processed, number of setups,number of material moves).c. Product-level activities -- performed as needed to support theproduction of each different type of product (number of tests, number of parts, number of engineering change notices, hours of design time,number of inspections).d. Facility-level activities -- sustain a facility’s general manufacturingprocess (square footage, number of employees, hours of training).In this exercise, a batch-level activity is involved -- setups.。

CHAPTER 4 COVERAGE OF LEARNING OBJECTIVESCHAPTER 4Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing4-A1 (20-30 min.)See Table 4-A1 on the following page.4-A2 (25-30 min.)1. Merchandise Inventories, 1,000 devices @ $97 $97,0002. Direct materials inventory $ 40,000Work-in-process inventory 0 Finished goods inventory 97,000 Total inventories $137,000 3.NILE ELECTRONICS PRODUCTSStatement of Operating IncomeFor the Year Ended December 31, 20X9Sales (9,000 units at $170) $1,530,000 Cost of goods sold:Beginning inventory $ 0Purchases 970,000Cost of goods available for sale $ 970,000Less ending inventory 97,000Cost of goods sold (an expense) 873,000 Gross margin or gross profit $ 657,000 Less other expenses: selling & administrative costs 185,000 Operating income (also income before taxesin this example) $ 472,000TABLE 4-A1STATEMENT OF OPERATING INCOME OPERATING INCOME BY PRODUCT LINEEXTERNAL REPORTING PURPOSE INTERNAL STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING PURPOSECustom Large SmallDetailed Std. Std. Cost Type, Assignment Method Sales $155,000 $30,000 $45,000 $80,000Cost of goods sold:Direct material 40,000 5,000 15,000 20,000 Direct, Direct TraceIndirect manufacturing 41,000 28,0001 5,000 8,000 Indirect, Alloc. – Mach. Hours81,000 33,000 20,000 28,000Gross profit 74,000 (3,000) 25,000 52,000Selling and administrative expenses:Commissions 15,000 1,500 3,500 10,000 Direct, Direct Trace Distribution to warehouses 10,400 1,0002 3,000 6,400 Indirect, Allocation - Weight Total selling and admin. expenses 25,400 2,500 6,500 16,400Contribution to corporate expensesand profit 48,600 $(5,500) $18,500 $35,600Unallocated expenses:Administrative salaries 8,000Other administrative expenses 4,000Total unallocated expenses 12,000Operating income before tax $ 36,6001 Total machine hours is 1,400 + 250 + 400 = 2,050. Indirect manufacturing cost per machine hour is then $41,000 ÷ 2,050 = $20. The al location to custom detailed is $20 × 1,400 machine hours = $28,000.2 Total weight shipped is 25,000 kg + 75,000 kg + 160,000 kg = 260,000 kg. Indirect distribution costs per kilogram is then $10,400 ÷ 260,000 kg = $0.04. The allocation to custom detailed is $0.04 × 25,000 kg = $1,000.技术资料专业整理4. ORINOCO, INC.Statement of Operating IncomeFor the Year Ended December 31, 20X9Sales (9,000 units at $170)$1,530,000Cost of goods manufactured and sold:Beginning finished goods inventory $ 0Cost of goods manufactured:Beginning WIP inventory $ 0Direct materials used 530,000Direct labor 290,000Indirect manufacturing 150,000Total mfg. costs to account for $970,000Less ending work-in-process inventory 0 970,000Cost of goods available for sale $970,000Less ending finished goods inventory 97,000Cost of goods sold (an expense) 873,000Gross margin or gross profit $ 657,000 Less other expenses: selling and administrative costs 185,000Operating income (also income before taxesin this example) $ 472,0005. The balance sheet for the merchandiser (Nile) has just one line forinventories, the ending inventory of the items purchased for resale.The balance sheet for the manufacturer (Orinoco) has three items:direct materials inventory, work-in-process inventory, and finishedgoods inventory.The income statements are similar except for the computation of cost of goods available for sale. The merchandiser (Nile) simply showspurchases for the year plus beginning inventory. In contrast, themanufacturer (Orinoco) shows beginning work-in-process inventory plusthe three categories of cost that comprise manufacturing cost (directmaterials used, direct labor, and factory (or manufacturing) overhead)and then deducts the ending work-in-process inventory. The manufacturer then adds the beginning finished goods inventory to this cost of goodsmanufactured to get the cost of goods available for sale.6. The purpose is providing aggregate measures of inventory value and costof goods manufactured for external reporting to investors, creditors,and other external stakeholders.4-A3 (10-15 min.)There can be many justifiable answers for each item other than thelisted cost driver and behavior. The purpose of this exercise is togenerate an active discussion regarding those chosen by First Bank’smanagers. One point that should be emphasized is that many timesmanagers choose cost drivers that are not the most plausible or reliable because of lack of data availability. Cost drivers are also used as abasis to allocate activity and resource costs and so the availability of data is often an important consideration.ActivityOr CostResource Cost Driver Behaviora.* R Number of square feet Fb.** R Number of person hours Fc. R Number of computer transactions Vd. A Number of schedulese. R Number of person hours Ff. R Number of loan inquiries Vg.*** A Number of investmentsh. A Number of applicationsi. R Number of person hours Vj. R Number of minutes Vk. R Number of person hours Fl. A Number of loans* An argument can be made that maintenance of the building is an activity.If this was the case, resources such as supplies and labor would be resources consumed, and several resource cost drivers would be needed. In addition, a separate resource and associated cost driver would be needed for insurance costs. However, the company had a contract for maintenance (fixed price), so this was a fixed-cost resource that was added to other occupancy costs such as insurance. The cost driver chosen for all these occupancy costs was square feet occupied by the various departments.** Normally, the cost driver used for any labor resource is person hours.It is assumed that the staff person hours used are regular hours rather than overtime or temporary labor hours. Thus, the cost is fixed with respect to changes in hours used. As the hours used increases (decreases) theutilization of the resources increases (decreases) and eventually, management will need to make a decision whether to expand capacity (or whether to cutback on labor). This is an example of a step cost that is fixed over wideranges of cost-driver level.*** Students may try to determine the cost behavior of activities even thoughthe problem requirements do not ask for it. Point out that activities almostalways have mixed cost behavior because they consume various resources. Someof these are fixed-cost and others variable-cost resources. For example, theactivity “research to evaluate a loan application” consumes such fixed-costresources as manager labor time and computers (assumed owned by the bank).This activity also consumes variable-cost resources such as telecommunicationstime and external computing services.4-A4 (20-30 min.)1. The first step is to determine the cost per cost-driver unit for eachactivity:Monthly Cost- Cost perManufacturing Driver DriverActivity [Cost driver] Overhead Activity UnitMaterial Handling [Direct materials cost] $12,000 $200,000$ 0.06Engineering [Engineering change notices] 20,000 20 1,000.00Power [Kilowatt hours] 16,000 400,000 0.04Total Manufacturing Overhead $48,000Next, the costs of each activity can be allocated to each of the threeproducts:PHYSICAL FLOW / ALLOCATED COSTCost Senior Basic DeluxeMaterial Handling$.06 × 25,000 = $1,500$.06 × 50,000 = $ 3,000$.06 × 125,000 = $ 7,5 Engineering $1,000 × 13 = 13,000$1,000 × 5 = 5,000$1,000 × 2 = 2,000Power $.04 × 50,000 = 2,000$.04 × 200,000 = 8,000$.04 × 150,000 = 6,000 Total $16,500 $16,000 $15,5002. Overhead rate based on direct labor costs:Rate = Total manufacturing overhead ÷ Total direct labor cost= $48,000 ÷ $8,000 = $6.00/DL$Overhead allocated to each product is:Senior: $6.00 × 4,000 = $24,000Basic: $6.00 × 1,000 = 6,000Deluxe: $6.00 × 3,000 = 18,000Total $48,000Notice that much less manufacturing overhead cost is allocated to Basic using direct labor as a cost driver. Why? Because Basic uses only asmall amount of labor but large amounts of other resources, especially power.3. The product costs in requirement 1 are more accurate if the costdrivers are good indicators of the causes of the costs -- they are both plausible and reliable. For example, kilowatt hours is certainly abetter measure of the cost of power costs than is direct labor hours.Therefore, the allocation of power costs in requirement 1 is certainly better than in requirement 2. Materials handling and engineering arelikewise more plausible. A manager would be much more confident in the manufacturing overhead allocated to products in requirement 1.Remember, however, that there are incremental costs of data collection associated with the more accurate ABC system. The benefit/costcriteria must be applied in deciding which costing system is “best.”4-B1 (20-30 min.)See Table 4-B1 on the following page.4-B2 (25-30 min.)1. $1,080,000 ÷ 45,000 hours = $24 per direct-labor hour2. (a) $585,000 ÷ 15,000 hours = $39 per direct-labor hour(b) $495,000 ÷ 30,000 hours = $16.50 per direct-labor hour3. (a) $585,000 ÷ 97,500 hours = $6 per machine hour(b) $495,000 ÷ 30,000 hours = $16.50 per direct-labor hour4. (a) $24 × (1.0 + 14.0) = $360.00$24 × (1.5 + 3.0) = $108.00$24 × (1.3 + 8.0) = $223.20(b) ($39 × 1.0) + ($16.50 × 14.0) = $39.00 + $231.00 = $270.00($39 × 1.5) + ($16.50 × 3.0) = $58.50 + $ 49.50 = $108.00($39 × 1.3) + ($16.50 × 8.0) = $50.70 + $132.00 = $182.70(c) ($6 × 12.0) + ($16.50 × 14.0) = $ 72.00 + $231.00 = $303.00($6 × 17.0) + ($16.50 × 3.0) = $102.00 + $ 49.50 = $151.50($6 × 14.0) + ($16.50 × 8.0) = $ 84.00 + $132.00 = $216.00(d) First consider using departmental instead of firm-wide rates (partb vs. part a). Departmental rates that use direct-labor hours asthe base decrease the cost applied to units of A and C and leave B unaffected. Other products that use relatively less assembly time will increase in cost. Now examine changing to a base of machine hours in machining (part c vs. part a). Product B is the only one with an increase in cost in (c) compared to (a). Why? Because B's uses only 16% of the direct labor hours used for A, B, and C, so it is is allocated only 16% of the costs allocated on the basis ofdirect labor hours. But it uses 40% of the machine hours, andthere is allocated 40% of costs that are allocated on the basis on machine hours. Therefore, it receives relatively more costs with a base of machine hours than with a base of direct-labor hours.TABLE 4-B1STATEMENT OF OPERATING INCOME OPERATING INCOME BY PRODUCT LINEThousands of Dollars Lawn HandScooter Mower Tool Cost Type,Parts Parts Parts Assignment Method Sales $990 $350 $380 $260Cost of goods sold:Direct material 400 175 125 100 Direct, Direct Trace Indirect manufacturing 94 68 1 14 12 Indirect – Mach.Hrs494 243 139 112Gross profit 496 107 241 148Selling and administrative expenses:Commissions 55 25 20 10 Direct, Direct Trace Distribution to warehouses 150 20 2 80 50 Indirect - Weight Total selling and administrative expenses 205 45 100 60Contribution to corporate expenses and profit 291 $ 62 $141 $ 88Unallocated expenses:Corporate salaries 11Other general expenses 17Total unallocated expenses 28Operating income before tax $2631 Total machine hours is 8,500 + 1,750 + 1,500 = 11,750. Indirect manufacturing cost per machine hour isthen $94,000 ÷ 11,750 = $8. The allocation to scooter parts is $8 × 8,500 machine hours = $68,000.2 Total weight shipped is 100,000 kg + 400,000 kg + 250,000 kg = 750,000 kg. Indirect distribution costs perkilogram is then $150,000 ÷ 750,000 kg = $0.20. The allocation to scooter parts is $0.20 × 100,000 kg = $20,000.技术资料专业整理4-B3 (30-35 min.)1.The existing system allocates all costs based on direct labor cost. The rate for allocating indirect production costs is:Estimated indirect production cost ÷ Estimated direct labor cost= ¥24,500,000 ÷ ¥35,000,000 = 70%That is, each time ¥1 is spent on direct labor, Watanabe adds ¥0.7 of indirect production cost to the cost of the product.2. Under an ABC system, Watanabe would allocate indirect production costs separately for each activity. This would result in the following four allocation rates:Receiving: Receiving co sts ÷ Direct material cost=¥4,800,000 ÷ 60,000,000 = ¥0.08 per ¥1of dir. mat. Assembly: Assembly costs ÷ Number of control units=¥13,800,000 ÷ 92,000 = ¥150 per control unitQual. Control: Quality control cost ÷ QC hours=¥1,800,000 ÷ 600 = ¥3,000 per QC hourShipping: Shipping cost ÷ # of boxes shipped=¥4,100,000 ÷ 8,200 = ¥500 per box shipped3. (a) The cost will contain 3 components (in thousands of yen):Direct material ¥ 8,000Direct labor 2,000Indirect production cost (¥2,000 × .7 = 1,400) 1,400Total cost ¥11,400Price (¥11,400 × 1.3)¥14,820(b) The cost will have 7 components, 4 of them allocating indirect production costs (totals in thousands of yen):Direct materials ¥ 8,000Direct labor 2,000Receiving (¥0.08 × 8,000)¥640Assembly (¥150 × 5,000)750Quality control (¥3,000 × 50)150Shipping (¥500 × 600) 300Total indirect production cost 1,840Total cost ¥11,840 Price (11 ,840 × 1.3)¥15,3924. The order from Nissan requires a relatively large amount of receiving, quality control, and shipping resources compared to the relative amount of labor required. This makes its indirect production costs are relatively expensive relative to the labor required. The following illustrates why an allocation on the basis of labor cost results in less costs than allocations based on the four activities:Budgeted Cost- Nissan Cost- NissanActivity Allocation Base Allocation Base Percentage Direct materials 60,000,000 8,000,000 13.3%Direct labor 35,000,000 2,000,000 5.7 Receiving 60,000,000 8,000,000 13.3 Assembly 92,000 5,000 5.4 Quality control 600 50 8.3 Shipping 8,200 600 7.3Using the single direct-labor cost-allocation base, this order would receive 5.7% of all indirect production costs. The main reason that indirect production costs for this order under the ABC system are relatively high is the large relative cost of materials that drives a large allocation (13.3%) of receiving costs to this order. The allocations of both quality control and shipping costs are slightly larger that they would be using a direct-labor cost-allocation base, while the allocation of assembly costs is slightly smaller.4-B4 (50-60 min.)1. A summary of the analyses follows.Pen Cell-PhoneCasings Casings CompanyBase Gross Profit Percentage* 1.25% 38.75% 8.07% Plan Gross Profit Percentage** 10.80% 37.20% 17.40% Support of Product Manager? Strong NoneSupport of President? Moderate* See Exhibit 4-6 on p. 136 of the text.** See Panel B of Exhibit 4-B4 that follows.Exhibit 4-B4, Panels A and B on the following pages can be used to explain the impact of the controller’s idea using the process map of the traditional costing system and the related financial reports. Notice that the $80,000 annual decrease in the cost of engineers needs to be converted to a $20,000 quarterly savings. The controller’s idea will result in an increase of 9.55%in the gross profit of the pen-casings line but a decrease of 1.55% in thecell-phone line. The product manager of pen casings would probably give strong support to the idea but the cell-phone casings manager would most likely not support the idea.Although the company-level gross profit margin improves, the president’s support may not be strong. Why? There is not a strong consensus among product-line managers. Top management is normally hesitant to support actions that do not have the unanimous support among product-line managers unless there is solid evidence of material improvement in profitability. While the current loss would be reversed, the return on sales is still nominal at 3,500 ÷ $480,000 = .73%.Exhibit 4-B4: Panel AProcess Map of Traditional Cost System[Direct Labor Hours = 4,500 +Exhibit 4-B4: Panel BPRO-FORMA FINANCIAL REPORTS:TRADITIONAL COST ALLOCATION SYSTEMSTATEMENT OF OPERTING INCOME CONTRIBUTION TO CORPORATE COSTSAND PROFIT [EXTERNAL REPORTING PURPOSE] [INTERNAL STRATEGIC DECISION MAKINGAND OPERATIONAL-CONTROL PURPOSE]Pen Casings Cell Phone CasingsSales $480,000 $360,000 $120,000 1 Cost of goods sold:Direct material 46,500 22,500 24,000 2 Direct labor 150,000 135,000 15,000Indirect manufacturing 200,000 163,636 3 36,364 4 Cost of goods sold 396,500 321,136 75,364 Gross profit 83,500 $ 38,864 $ 44,636 Corporate expenses (unallocated) 80,000Operating income $ 3,500Gross profit margin 17.40% 10.80% 37.20%1. $80,000 × .75 × 22. $12,000 × 23. $200,000 × [4,500/(4,500 + 1,000)]4. $200,000 × [1,000/(4,500 + 1,000)]5. $83,500/$480,000技术资料专业整理Perhaps the most important factor bearing on the president’s support is lack of confidence in the accuracy of the cost and hence gross margin figures. She probably will inquire whether the shift in the consumption percentages by the two activities is captured by the traditional costing system. Does the change in allocation rates from 90:10 to 82:18 based on direct labor hour changes accurately capture the impact of the operational changes? An informal analysis of the controller’s idea might look like the following table.Based on the informal analysis, the President probably would expect the profitability of cell-phone casings to improve and the profitability of pen casings to be unaffected. This disagrees with the numerical analysis. Given the propensity of managers to embrace numerical results, less weight will likely be given this analysis compared to the “objective” numbers. As a result, she may question the validity of the numerical analysis as well as the value of the traditional costing system!Finally, the focus of improvement efforts should be directly on the pen-casing product line. This initiative deals mostly with the cell-phone line. What can be done to improve profitability of the pen casings? Can prices be raised without losing too much volume? Can operational improvements be made to lower the indirect manufacturing costs? The controller’s idea is worthy of some support but it does not address the profitability issue head on.2. Exhibit 4-B4, Panel C on the following page is a process map that can be used to explain the impact of the controller’s idea. Panel D at the end of the solution provides a detailed evaluation of the controller’s idea.Pen Cell-PhoneCasings Casings Company Base Gross Profit Percentage* 16.22% (28.63%) 8.07% Plan Gross Profit Percentage** 17.26% 17.81% 17.40% Support of Product Manager? Neutral StrongSupport of President? Strong* See the table on p. 139 of the text.** See panel D of Exhibit 4-B4 that follows.The controller’s idea will result in a slight increase in the gross profit of the pen-casings line but a dramatic turnaround in the profitability of thecell-phone line. The product manager of pen casings would probably be neutral or slightly positive about the idea because the idea does not focus on operational improvements that directly affect the pen-casings line. The cell-phone casings manager would give strong support to the idea – this may save his/her job! The president would strongly support this idea while encouraging all managers involved to keep up the good work. Also, note that the numbers agree with the informal analysis – generating confidence in the integrity of the cost accounting system.Exhibit 4-B4, Panel CProcess Map for ABC SystemExhibit 4-B4: Panel DPRO-FORMA FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR LOPEZ PLASTICS COMPANY:ACTIVITY-BASED COST ALLOCATION SYSTEMSTATEMENT OF OPERTING INCOME CONTRIBUTION TO CORPORATE COSTSAND PROFIT [EXTERNAL REPORTING PURPOSE] [INTERNAL STRATEGIC DECISION MAKINGAND OPERATIONAL-CONTROL PURPOSE]Pen Casings Cell Phone Casings Sales $480,000 $360,000 $120,000 Cost of goods sold:Direct material 46,500 22,500 24,000 Direct labor 150,000 135,000 15,000Processing activity 154,000 126,000 128,000 2Production support activity 46,000 14,375 3 31,625 4 Cost of goods sold 396,500 297,875 98,625 Gross profit 83,500 $ 62,125 $ 21,375 Corporate expenses (unallocated) 80,000Operating loss $ 3,500Gross profit margin 17.26% 17.81%1. $154,000 × [4,500 labor hours/(4,500 labor hours + 1,000 labor hours)]2. $154,000 × [1,000 labor hours/(4,500 labor hours + 1,000 labor hours)]3. $46,000 × [5 distinct parts/(5 distinct parts + 11 distinct parts)]4. $46,000 × [11 distinct parts/(5 distinct parts + 11 distinct parts)]技术资料专业整理3. As vice president, you probably are pleased with the new ABC system. The cost drivers that are used to allocate activity costs appear to be plausible and reliable and thus probably represent a sound cause-effect model of operations. This will improve both the accuracy of product costing and operating managers’ control over costs. Operating managers will be pleased with the ABC system because it helps them understand how their day-to-day work impacts costs and profits. From a behavioral perspective, this should behighly motivational.This problem emphasizes the importance of the cost-accounting system to managers. Different systems can result in significantly different management decisions. In this case, the product-line managers’ support for the controller’s idea changes when an ABC system is used to evaluate the idea. Although the company-level gross margins do not change, it is possible thatthe president would strongly support the idea based on ABC data. Why? Neither of the product-line managers is against the idea, and one strongly supports it. In addition, the president may have more confidence in the accuracy of the ABC analysis. The substantial losses of the current quarter have been completely eliminated and the serious profitability problem of the cell-phone casing product line has been reversed.4-1 A cost management system is a collection of tools and techniques that identifies how management’s decisions affect costs. The three purposesof a CMS are to provide1.cost information for operational control,2.cost information for strategic decisions, and3.measures of inventory value and cost of goods manufactured (orpurchased) for external reporting to investors, creditors, and otherexternal stakeholders.4-2 a. The production manager needs operational control information.b. Setting the product mix is a strategic decision.c. The cost of inventory that appears on the balance sheet is information that is used by external investors, creditors, and other stakeholders.4-3 Cost objects are any items for which decision makers desire a separate measurement of costs. They include departments, products, services, territories, and customers.4-4 No. Products are one of the main cost objects for most companies, but departments are also important cost objects because they represent a logical grouping of activities for which managers desire a separate determination of costs.4-5 The major purpose of a detailed cost-accounting system is to measure costs for decision making and financial reporting. Cost accounting systems become more detailed as management seeks more accurate data for decision making.4-6 The two major processes performed by a cost accounting system are cost accumulation and cost assignment. Cost accumulation is collecting costs by some “natural” classification, such as materials or labor, or by activities performed such as order processing or machine processing. Cost assignment is attaching costs to one or more cost objects, such as activities, processes, departments, customers, or products.4-7 Managers make important decisions on a daily basis. They base these decisions in large part on financial data provided by the cost accounting system. So it is critically important that the cost accounting system provide accurate and reliable financial information.4-8 Managers can specifically and exclusively identify direct costs with a given cost object (that is, directly trace them) in an economically feasible way. Indirect costs cannot be so identified. However, managers can usually identify a plausible and reliable cost driver to use to allocate resourcecosts to cost objects that consume the resources. When direct tracing is not economically feasible and a plausible and reliable cost driver cannot be found, costs should remain unallocated.4-9 Yes, the same cost (for example, the department supervisor's salary)can be direct with respect to a department but indirect with respect to the variety of products flowing through a department (e.g., tables, chairs, and cabinets).4-10 Some costs can be physically linked with a department (or a product), but not in an economically feasible way. An example is the use of departmental meters for measuring power usage. Such devices could measure power costs as direct costs of a department. The alternative is to regard factory power costs as indirect costs of individual departments. Managers often decide whether the resulting increased accuracy provided by individual power meters is worth their additional cost; thus, the test of economic feasibility will decide whether a particular cost is regarded as direct or indirect.4-11 The four purposes of cost allocation are (1) to predict the economic effects of strategic and operational control decisions, (2) to obtain desired motivation, (3) to compute income and asset valuations, and (4) to justify costs or obtain reimbursement.4-12 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) require publically-held companies to allocate all production-related costs and only production-related costs to its products for financial reporting to the public.4-13 No. The costs in a cost pool are not physically traced to cost objects. Only direct costs are traced to cost objects. A cost pool contains indirect costs that are allocated to cost objects using a single cost-allocation base.4-14 Some possible terms are reallocate, assign, distribute, redistribute, load, apportion, reapportion, and burden.4-15 For financial statement purposes, the typical accounting system does not allocate costs associated with value-chain functions other than production to the physical units produced. However, for guiding decisions regarding product-pricing and product-mix decisions, many companies allocate all costs, including R&D, design, marketing, distribution, and customer service costs. However, the allocations of these costs may not be embedded in the system that generates financial statements.4-16 Yes. The two criteria that should be met before using any measure as a cost-allocation base are economic plausibility and reliability. A measure should be plausible – make common sense. If managers cannot easily understand the logical relationship between a cost allocation-base and the costs of an activity or resource, managers will perceive the resulting allocations as arbitrary.4-17 Production maintenance costs are normally indirect. Sales commissions normally can be directly traced to specific products. The costs associated with process design are normally unallocated because it is too difficult to identify plausible and reliable cost-allocation bases, although some companies elect to allocate them.4-18 Generally not. They are direct as far as the physical product is concerned, but in accounting for their cost it would usually be impractical (too costly) to keep records of the amount of glue or tacks used in each unit of product. A more feasible method would be to consider these as supplies (indirect materials).4-19 Depreciation related to production activities is a product cost, not a period cost. Hence, it will become an expense as a part of manufacturing cost of goods sold. Thus, depreciation is not always an immediate expense.。

北交《管理会计（专）》在线作业一一、单选题（共 15 道试题，共 30 分。

）1. 按照产品批别计算产品成本,往往就是按照下列哪种计算产品成本( ). 订单. 品种. 车间. 生产工艺过程正确答案：2. 改变企业生产经营能力的前提下,采取降低固定成本总额的措施通常是降低( ). 约束性固定成本. 酌量性固定成本. 半固定成本. 单位固定成本正确答案：3. 在影响利润变动的各因素中,一般情况下,以下列哪种的敏感性最大( ). 单位变动成本. 销量. 单价. 固定成本总额正确答案：4. 造成“某期按变动成本法与按完全成本法确定的营业净利润不相等”的根本原因是. 两种方法对固定性制造费用的处理方式不同. 两种方法计入当期损益表的固定生产成本的水平不同. 两种方法计算销售收入的方法不同. 两种方法将营业费用计入当期损益表的方式不同正确答案：5. 在影响利润变动的各因素中,一般情况下,以下列哪种的敏感性最大( ). 单位变动成本. 销量. 单价. 固定成本总额正确答案：6. 根据本量利分析原理,只能提高安全边际而不会降低盈亏临界点的措施是( ). 提高单价. 增加产销量. 降低单位变动成本. 压缩固定成本正确答案：7. 以下哪个是负责完成某一项特定产品制造功能的一系列作业的集合( ). 作业中心. 制造中心. 企业. 车间正确答案：8. 作业消耗一定的( ). 成本. 时间. 费用. 资源正确答案：9. 下列描述固定成本的特征,正确的是( ). 单位固定成本的正比例变动性. 单位固定成本的不变性. 固定成本总额的正比例变动性. 固定成本总额的不变性正确答案：10. 在本量利分析中,必须假定产品成本的计算基础是( ). 完全成本法. 变动成本法. 吸收成本法. 制造成本法正确答案：11. 辅助生产费用的交互分配法,一次交互分配时是在( ). 各受益单位间进行分配. 各受益的辅助生产车间之间进行分配. 辅助生产以外受益单位之间进行分配. 各受益的基本车间之间进行分配正确答案：12. 作业成本计算法把企业看成是为最终满足顾客需要而设计的一系列( ). 契约的集合. 作业的集合. 产品的集合. 生产线的集合正确答案：13. 生产过程中或入库后发现的各种废品损失,不包括( ). 修复废品人员工资. 修复废品领用的材料. 不可修复废品的报废损失. 实行“三包”损失正确答案：14. 采用散布图法分解混合成本时,通过目测在各成本点之间画出一条反映成本变动趋势的直线,这条直线与纵轴的交点就是固定成本,斜率则是变动成本。

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第一章：管理会计的基本概念和方法1. 管理会计的定义是什么？管理会计是指在组织内部为管理者提供决策支持和信息反馈的一种会计体系。

它通过收集、处理和分析各种与管理决策相关的信息，为管理者提供决策所需的信息和分析报告。

2. 管理会计的目的是什么？管理会计的目的是帮助管理者做出明智的决策，实现组织的目标。

它通过提供成本、利润、投资回报率等信息，帮助管理者了解组织的经济状况和运营情况，从而做出合理的决策。

3. 管理会计的方法有哪些？管理会计的方法包括成本会计、预算管理、绩效评价等。

成本会计主要用于计算和控制成本，帮助管理者了解产品成本和服务成本。

预算管理是指通过制定预算，对组织的经济活动进行计划、控制和评价。

绩效评价是通过对组织的绩效进行评估，帮助管理者了解组织的运营情况和达成目标的程度。

第二章：成本行为与成本估计1. 成本行为是什么？成本行为是指成本与产量或其他活动之间的关系。

根据成本与产量之间的变化关系，成本可以分为固定成本、可变成本和半固定成本。

2. 成本估计的方法有哪些？成本估计的方法包括直接法、间接法和混合法。

直接法是通过直接观察和测量成本和产量之间的关系，估计成本的变化。

间接法是通过间接观察和测量成本和其他因素之间的关系，估计成本的变化。

混合法是将直接法和间接法相结合，综合考虑各种因素对成本的影响。

第三章：成本-收益分析1. 什么是成本-收益分析？成本-收益分析是指通过比较项目的成本和收益，评估项目的经济效益和可行性。

它可以帮助管理者决策是否进行某项投资或项目，以及选择最佳的投资方案。

2. 成本-收益分析的方法有哪些？成本-收益分析的方法包括净现值法、内部收益率法和投资回收期法。

15秋东财《全面预算管理》在线作业三满分答案一、单选题（共 15 道试题，共 60 分。

）1. 处于成熟期的企业，其预算模式的特点是以( )为起点A. 销售预算B. 资本预算C. 成本预算D. 现金流量预算正确答案：C2. 下列各项中，能够集中反映财务决策结果的专门预算是( )A. 日常业务预算B. 特种决策预算C. 财务预算D. 责任预算正确答案：B3. 编制生产预算时，关键是正确地确定( )A. 销售价格B. 销售数量C. 期初存货量D. 期末存货量正确答案：D4. 20世纪80年代初期西方的( )理论被广泛采用，推动了全面预算在我国的应用A. 管理会计B. 作业基础预算C. 战略预算D. 预算管理正确答案：A5. 财务预算又称为( )A. 全面预算B. 业务预算C. 辅助预算D. 总预算正确答案：D6. 相对于弹性预算而言，固定预算的主要缺点是A. 适应性差B. 稳定性差C. 连续性差D. 远期指导性差正确答案：A7. ()是指历史上形成的（而非现职经理在确定预算目标时点形成）不能增值的资产，其形式大量地表现为应收账款和其他非增值资产A. 实物资产B. 沉淀资产C. 虚拟资产D. 无形资产正确答案：B8.在下列预算编制方法中，基于一系列可预见的业务量水平编制的、能适应多种情况的预算是A. 零基预算B. 定期预算C. 静态预算D. 弹性预算正确答案：D9. ( )既是企业预算总目标的细化，也是企业预算总目标实现的基础A. 预算控制标准B. 预算控制指标C. 预算控制内容D. 预算控制程序正确答案：A10. 下列各项中，全面预算的最后环节是( )A. 日常业务预算B. 财务预算C. 特种决策预算D. 弹性利润预算正确答案：B11. 全面预算管理中，不属于总预算内容的是A. 现金预算B. 生产预算C. 预计利润表D. 预计资产负债表正确答案：B12. 1922年()一书，将预算管理的理论及方法从控制的角度进行了详细介绍，该书的出版标志着企业预算管理理论开始形成A. 《预算控制》B. 《预算与会计法案》C. 《工业成本计算》D. 《企业经济计划——商业协调》正确答案：A13. 属于企业内部标准的是( )A. 历史标准B. 行业标准C. 理想标准D. 实际标准正确答案：A14. ()控制就是在业务发生之后，通过会计核算信息系统对与业务相关的费用报销和资金拨付进行事中控制A. 预算授权B. 预算审核C. 预算调整D. 预算编制正确答案：B15. 产业经营型企业集团适合的预算编制程序是( )A. 自上而下式B. 自下而上式C. 上下结合式D. 上下并行式正确答案：C东财《全面预算管理》在线作业三二、多选题（共 10 道试题，共 40 分。