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Acc 211 Exam 3 - Missouri State University – Thornton Practice Questions and Answers What are the steps in the decision making model? - Ans:-1. Recognize and define the problem 2. Identify alternatives as possible solutions to the problem 3. Identify the costs and benefits associated with eac...

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Acc 211 Exam 3 - Missouri State University –
Thornton Practice Questions and Answers


What are the steps in the decision making model? - Ans:✔✔-1. Recognize and define the problem


2. Identify alternatives as possible solutions to the problem


3. Identify the costs and benefits associated with each feasible alternative


4. Estimate the relevant costs and benefits for each feasible alternative


5. Assess qualitative factors


6. Make the decision by selecting the alternative with the greatest overall net benefit


What is the decision making model? - Ans:✔✔-A specific set of procedures that produce a decision


- can be used to structure the decision makers thinking and organize the information to make a good

decision


Relevant Costs characteristics - Ans:✔✔-they are future items AND they differ across alternatives


Opportunity cost - Ans:✔✔-The benefit sacrificed or forgone when one alternative is chosen over

another
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- relevant because it is both a future cost and one that differs across alternatives


- never an accounting cost, because accountants to not record the cost of what might happen in the

future (i.e they do not appear in financial statements)


Sunk cost - Ans:✔✔-A cost that cannot be affected by any future action


- all managers should ignore sunk costs for relevant decisions


What are the relevant costing decisions? - Ans:✔✔-1. to make or by a component


2. to keep or drop a segment or product or service line


3. to accept a special order at less than the usual price


4. to further process joint products or sell them at the split off point


Make-or-by decisions - Ans:✔✔-those decisions involving a choice between internal and external

production


- managers face the decision of whether to make a particular product (or provide a service) or to

purchase it from an outside supplier


Special order decisions - Ans:✔✔-focus on whether a specifically priced order should be accepted or

rejected




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- these orders can be attractive, especially when the firm is operating below its maximum productive

capacity


Keep or drop decisions - Ans:✔✔-requires that managers identify and consider only the relevant

information of the business segment question


What is a segment? - Ans:✔✔-a subunit of a company that a separate performance report is created

from other areas


- Ex: a particular product or service line or geographic sales region


- segmented reports prepared on a variable-costing basis are important because they provide managers

with this valuable information


Why is identifying the relevant information necessary? - Ans:✔✔-for making effective keep or drop

decisions


What are constraints? - Ans:✔✔-Every firm faces limited resources and limited demand for each product


Ex: limitations of raw materials, limitations of skilled labor, limited demand for each product


Target costing - Ans:✔✔-a method of determining the cost of a product or service based on the price

(target price) that customers are willing to pay


What do budgets do? - Ans:✔✔-help management



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