ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE (BY TOPIC) Topics Questions Brief Exercises Concepts for Analysis Exercises Problems 1, 2, 3, 9, 10 1, 2, 3, 5 6 1. Lower-of-cost-or-market. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 2. Inventory accounting changes; relative sales value method; net realizable value. 7, 8 4 7, 8 3. Purchase commitments. 9 5, 6 9, 10 9 4. Gross profit method. 10, 11, 12, 13 7 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 4
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Week 3 Assignment from the textbook Nancy Schwartz ACC/400 February 8, 2016 Lee Kroll Exercise 20.1 Listed below are nine technical accounting terms introduced in this chapter: Variable costs Relevant range Contribution margin Break-even point Fixed costs Semivariable costs Economies of scale Sales mix Unit contribution margin Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms. For each statement, indicate the accounting term described
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1 CHAPTER ONE: ACCOUNTING IN BUSINESS Chapter Outline I. Importance of Accounting—we live in the information age, where information, and its reliability, impacts the financial well-being of us all. A. Accounting Activities Accounting is an information and measurement system that identifies, records and communicates relevant, reliable, and comparable information about an organizations business activities. B. Users of Accounting Information 1. External Information Users—those not directly involved
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RJET TASK 4 A1. COSTING METHOD Activity based costing or ABC accounting as it is called distributes manufacturing overhead costs to products in a smarter way than in the traditional way. This way of simply assigning costs on the basis of machine hours. Activity based costing assigns costs first to the activities that make up the real overhead. Then it assigns a cost to the activities that affect only the products produce. ABC vs Traditional Costing This is one main difference between ABC (Activity
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Financial Accounting Chapters 1,2,3 Double Entry Accounting- each business transaction has dual effects. As a result, every transaction affects at least two accounts. One Debit and One Credit ACCOUNT | Debit | Credit | Assets | + | - | Expenses | + | - | Dividends or Withdrawals | + | - | Revenue | - | + | Liabilities | - | + | Capital | - | + | Retained Earnings | - | + | Normal Balance- side the account increases Contra Account- has a normal balance opposite of its companion
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manual accounting information systems and computerised accounting information systems, and compare and consolidate your knowledge within both systems. You will be given structured instructions to set up a business, create your own Chart of Accounts, and prepare a set of transations within a general journal. This forms the Business Information Introduction Phase. Based on the feedback from your tutors from this phase and supporting materials, demonstrations, instructions on computerised accounting system
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Accounting Assignment BUSN2036 Financial Accounting Issues 1.Determine if the assets of the CGU are impaired and, if so, by how much. Show all workings The total assets; Fixed Assets Land $150,000 Buildings $280,000 Machinery $140,000
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Bully” 2.1 Sales unit projections to U.S. purchasers Schedule of expected sales provided by the marketing department assumes 70% of sales to domestic purchasers and 30% to U.S. purchasers. BML has fairly recently escalated its sales in the U.S. to the extent that almost 30% of its sales, up from 5% the preceding year. Such growth in sales is reasonably foreseen in the near future. The assumption made by the marketing department appears conservative. The total sales in units to U.S. purchasers
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Goodwill is an intangible asset described differently amongst different professionals in history. Professor Dicksee, author of many different accounting manuals has defined goodwill as “When a man pays for goodwill, he pays for something which places him in the position of being able to earn more than he would be able to do by his own unaided efforts.” Lord Lindley has been quoted of saying “The term goodwill is generally used to denote benefit arising from connections and reputation.” Lord Macnaghten
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the Census projects that by 2006, the service sector will employ 74 percent of the workforce. This case illustrates why a major segment of the service sector—banks—needs accurate cost information to make strategic decisions, and how more refined accounting systems help fulfill this need. Buckeye National Bank is a hypothetical bank that has suffered falling profits despite a shift in customer base toward retail customers, which the current information system reports are more profitable than
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