COST ACCOUNTING
Creating VaLue for Management Fifth Edition
MICHAEL MAHER
, Tab Le OF Contents
Chapte r 1 Chapte r 1 5
Co st Acco unting: Ho w Managers Use r Using DifferentiaL AnaLysis fo r
Co st Acco unting Info rmatio n Pro ductio n Decisio ns
Chapte r 2 Chapte r 1 6
Co st Co ncepts and Behavio ur Managing QuaLity and Time
Chapte r 3 Chapte r 1 7
Co st System Design: An Overview PLanning and Budgeting
Chapte r 4 Chapte r 1 8
Jo b Co sting FLexibLe Budgeting and Perfo rmance
EvaLuation
Chapte r 5
Pro cess Co sting Chapte r 1 9
Perfo rmance EvaLuatio n: Co st
Chapte r 6 Variances
Spo iLage and QuaLity Management
Chapte r 2 0
Chapte r 7 Perfo rmance EvaLuatio n in
ALLo cating Co sts to Departments DecentraLized Organizatio ns
Chapte r 8 Chapte r 2 1
Activity-Based Co sting Transfer Pricing
Chapte r 9 Chapte r 2 2
Activity-Based Management No nfinanciaL Perfo rmance Me asures
Chapte r 1 0 Chapte r 2 3
ALLo cating Jo int Co sts CapitaL Investmenet Decisio ns
Chapte r 1 1 Chapte r 2 4
VariabLe Co sting Invento ry Manage ment
Chapte r 1 2 Chapte r 2 5
Co st Estimatio n Manage ment Ethics and FinanciaL
Fraud
Chapte r 1 3
Co st-Vo Lume-Pro fit AnaLysis Chapte r 2 6
Revenue, Mix and ieLd Variances
Chapte r 1 4
DifferentiaL Co st and Revenue
AnaLysis
,
, Chapter 1
Cost Accounting: How Managers
Use Cost Accounting Information
SoLutions to Review Questions
1–1.
C AnaLysis OF divisionaL performance
A Costing for income tax purposes
B Determining how many units to produce in the coming week
1–2.
Descriptions OF the six business functions in the vaLue chain are as foLLows:
1. Research and deveLopment: the creation and deveLopment OF ideas reLated to new products,
services, or processes.
2. Design: the detaiLed deveLopment and engineering OF products, services, or processes.
3. Production: the coLLection and assembLy OF resources to produce a product or deLiver a service.
4. Marketing: the process that informs potentiaL customers about the attributes OF products or services,
and Leads to the saLe OF those products or services.
5. Distribution: the process estabLished to deLiver products or services to customers.
6. Customer Service: product or service support activities provided to customers.
1–3.
VaLue-added activities are activities that customers perceive as adding utiLity to the goods or services they
purchase. NonvaLue-added activities do not add vaLue to the goods or services.
1–4.
DifferentiaL costs are important for manageriaL decision making, but other cost data can provide
management with additionaL important information. For exampLe, inventory vaLues and costs OF goods
soLd are important for income tax and financiaL reporting purposes as weLL as for most bonus and cost-
pLus contracting purposes. Costs for performance evaLuation are not necessariLy differentiaL costs.
Companies try to recover aLL costs, hence some estimate OF totaL costs is needed. (This couLd be an
opportunity to discuss short-run and Long-run costs with students, noting that in the Long run, aLL costs
must be covered.)
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