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Managerial Accounting Exam 2
Managerial Accouting
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Accounting
Undergraduate 2
04/06/2017

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Term
CM Ratio
Definition
CM/ Total Sales
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This is a measure of how sensitve Net Oper. Income is to a given % change in dollar sales
Definition
Operating Leverage
Term
Degree of Oper. Leverage
Definition
CM/ Net Operating Income
Term
Margin of Safety in Dollars
Definition
Total Sales- Breakeven Sales
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Margin of Safety Percentage
Definition
Margin of safety in dollar/ Total budgeted (or actual) sales in dollars
Term
A fixed cost that supports the operations of more than one segmen, but is not traceable in whole or part to any segment.
Definition
Common Cost
Term
Used to estimate what sales volume is needed to achieve a specific target profit
Definition
Target Profit Analysis
Term
Unit sales to attain the Target Profit
Definition
Target Profit+Fixed Expenses/ Unit CM
Term
Dollar sales to attain the Target Profit
Definition
Target Profit+ Fixed Expenses/ CM Ratio
Term
Absorption
Definition
treats all manufacturing cost as product cost, regardless if they are variable or fixed.
Term
Variable Cost
Definition
only those MOH cost that vary with out put is treated as a product cost.
Term
DM + DL + VariableMOH + FixedMOH
Definition
Absorption Cost
Term

DM + DL + VariableMOH

Definition
Variable Costing
Term
A costing method that is designed to provide managers witht he cost info for strategic and other decisons that potentially affect capacity and therefore "Fixed" as well as Variable Cost
Definition
Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
Term

A 12 month budget that rolls foward 1 month. (always have 12 months ahead planned)

 

Definition
Continuous Budget
Term
self-imposed, prepared with full cooperation & participation of managers & by higher up. No "Budgetary slack"
Definition
Participation Budget
Term
Why do be budget?
Definition
For detailed quantative plan for aquiring, using financial & other resources over specified 4th coming time.
Term
An essential managment tool that communicates managment plans throughout the organization, allocates resources and coordinates activities.
Definition
Master Budget
Term
Managers should only be responsible for those items & only those items that they can actually control to a significant extent.
Definition
Responsibility Account
Term
How to find CM?
Definition
Total Sales - Fixed Expenses
Term
How to find Net Operating Income?
Definition
CM- Fixed Expenses
Term
When CM=Fixed Expenses, it is what?
Definition
BreakEven Point
Term
Sales - COGS= ?
Definition
Gross Margin
Term
Batch-level activities
Definition
this is performed each time a batch is handled or processed, regerdless of how many unit are in the batch.
Term
Unit-level activities
Definition
this is performed each time a unit is produced. the cost of the unit level activities shoulf be proportional to the number of units produced.
Term
What is a benefit of using ABC?
Definition
result in more accurate product cost. and reclassfies certain MOH cost into direct components.
Term
Allocation Base
Definition
the amount associated with the cost objects that is used to proportionally distribute cost to each cost object.
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