Managerial Accounting Exam 1 (McGraw Hill ch.1-4)

Financial Accounting

~Reports to those outside the organization: Owners, Creditors, Regulators, & Tax authorities.

~ financial consequences of past activities.

~ objectivity and verifiability.

~ precision.

~ Companywide reports

~Must follow GAAP/FRS

~Mandatory for external reports

Managerial Accounting

~concerned with providing information to managers within an organization so that they can formulate plans, control operations, and make decisions.

~Decisions affecting the future.

~relevance

~timeliness

~segment reports

~does NOT need to follow GAAP/FRS

~Not Mandatory

Segment

is a part or activity of an organization about which managers would like cost, revenue, or profit data. ex. departments, plants, or divisions

Planning

~involves establishing goals and specifying how to achieve them

~normally accompanied by a budget

Controlling

involves gathering feedback to ensure that the plan is being properly executed or modified as circumstances change

Decision Making

~involves selecting a course of action from competing alternatives

~basic managerial skill to make intelligent, data driven decisions

~What should we be selling?

Who should we be serving?

How should we execute?

A budget

is a detailed plan for the future that is usually expressed in formal quantitative terms

Performance report

compares budgeted data to actual data in an effort to identify and learn from excellent performance and to identify and eliminate sources of unsatisfactory performance.

Data Analytics

the process of analyzing data with the aid of specialized systems and software to draw conclusions about the information they contain

5 types of cost classifications

1) assigning costs to cost objects

2) manufacturing companies

3) preparing financial statements

4) predicting cost behavior

5) making decisions

Assigning costs to cost objects

~direct cost (can be easily traced)

~indirect cost (cannot be easily traced)

Accounting for cost in manufacturing companies

~Manufacturing Cost

~Nonmanufacturing Cost

Manufacturing Costs

~Direct Material (DM)

~Direct Labor (DL)

~Manufacturing Overhead (MOH)

nonmanufacturing costs

~selling costs ~administrative costs

Preparing Financial Statements

~Product costs (inventoriable)

~Period costs (expensed)

Predicting cost behavior in response to changes in activity

~Variable Cost (proportional to activity)

~Fixed Costs (constant in total)

~Mixed Costs (has variable & fixed elements)

cost object

anything for which cost data are desired: product, customers, plants, office locations, & departments

(assigning cost to cost objects can be either direct or indirect)

Direct Costs

~a cost that can be easily and conveniently traced to a specified cost object

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indirect costs

~a cost that cannot be easily and conveniently traced to a specified cost object

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Common Cost

~a cost that is incurred to support a number of cost objects but that cannot be traced to them individually

~common cost is a type of indirect cost

Manufacturing cost categories

1. Direct Materials

2. Direct Labor

3. Manufacturing Overhead (indirect cost)

Direct Materials (raw materials)

~raw materials that become an integral part of the product and that can be conveniently traced directly to it

~raw materials refer to any materials that are used in the final product (the finished product of one company can become the raw materials of another company)

Direct Labor

~consists of labor costs that can be easily traced to individual units of product

~sometimes called touch labor because they are typically touching the products being made

Prime Cost

the sum of direct materials cost and direct labor cost

(both direct manufacturing cost categories

Manufacturing Overhead

~includes all manufacturing costs except direct materials and direct labor

~MOH costs are indirect because they cannot be easily traced to specific products

_indirect materials

_indirect labor

_indirect cost

(also called indirect manufacturing overhead, factory overhead, &factory burden)

Indirect Materials

~raw materials whose costs cannot be easily or conveniently traced to finished products

Indirect Labor

The labor costs of janitors, supervisors, materials handlers, and other factory workers that cannot be conveniently traced to particular products.

Other Indirect Manufacturing Costs

~depreciation

~utility cost

~property taxes

~insurance premiums

~only those indirect cost associated with operating the factory are included in manufacturing overhead

Conversion Cost

~Direct Labor + Manufacturing Overhead

(the term conversion cost is used because these costs are incurred to convert direct materials into finished products)

nonmanufacturing costs

selling costs and administrative costs

(nonmanufacturing costs are also called selling, general, and administrative costs or just selling and admin costs)

selling costs

All costs that are incurred to secure customers orders and get the finished product to the customer.

~also called order-getting & order-filling costs

~include: advertising, shipping, sales travel, sales commissions, sales salaries, and cost of finished goods warehouse.

~can be either direct or indirect

administrative cost

include all costs associated with the general management of an organization rather than with manufacturing or selling

~include: executive compensation, general accounting, legal counsel, secretarial, public relations, and similar cost involved in the overall general admin.

product costs (inventoriable costs)

~all costs involved in acquiring or making a product

~product cost "attach" to a unit of product

~include: DM, DL, & MOH

~Flows through three inventory accounts: Raw Materials, WIP, & Finished Goods before being transferred to COGS

~DM+DL+MOH

Work In Process

consists of units of production that are only partially complete and will require further work before they are ready for sale to customers

Finished Goods

consist of completed units of product that have not been sold to customers

Period Costs

~all costs that are not product costs

~all selling and admin. expenses are treated as period costs.

~period cost are not included as part of the cost purchased or manufactured goods, but are expensed in the income statement

~Selling+Admin.

cost flow diagram

variable costs

~costs that vary directly with the level of production

~ex. COGS, DM, DL, variable elements of selling and admin.

~cost are variable with respect to something like an activity base

~VariableManu.Cost=DM+DL+VaraibleMOH