1. It is beneficial to assign indirect costs to cost objects.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
2. Price must be greater than cost in order for the firm to generate revenue.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. Accumulating costs is the way that costs are measured and recorded.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
4. Assigning costs involves the way that a cost is linked to some cost object.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. Assigning costs tells the accountant who spent the money.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
6. A cost object is any item such as products, customers, departments, regions, and so on, for which costs are
measured and assigned.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
7. Costs are directly, not indirectly, associated with cost objects.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
8. Direct costs are those costs that cannot be easily and accurately traced to a cost object.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
RATIONALE: Direct costs are those costs that can be easily and accurately traced to a cost object.
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Chapter 2 - Basic Managerial Accounting Concepts
- Other Category: Accounting, Economics
- July 23, 2013
- Dan
- cost driver, direct labor, indirect labor, labor costs, manufacturing, overhead, overhead allocation, production, wage
See
Also:
Direct Cost vs Indirect Cost
Cost Driver
Direct Materials
Direct Labor Variance Formulas
Absorption Cost Accounting
Direct Material
Variance Formulas
In accounting, direct labor (DL) costs are the costs associated with paying workers to make a
product or provide a service. The workers must be clearly involved in producing the product or providing the service. Direct labor costs are one of the costs
associated with producing a product or providing a service. Furthermore, direct labor costs are in contrast to indirect labor costs. Indirect labor costs are costs associated with workers who are necessary, but they are not directly involved
with making the product or providing the service.
Examples of direct labor costs include the following:
- In a manufacturing setting, wages paid to workers in an assembly line
- In a service setting, wages paid to workers in the kitchen of a restaurant
Direct Labor and Overhead Allocation
Sometimes it may be appropriate to use direct labor as a cost driver to allocate indirect costs to a production process.
Overhead Allocation
Indirect costs, such as overhead costs, are not directly traceable to the final product; however they are necessary for the production of the process. As a result, they must be incorporated in the overall cost of the product. In addition, allocate indirect costs to the final product by way of a cost driver.
Direct Labor
In production, processes in which direct labor is an appropriate cost driver, allocate indirect costs to the cost of units of output via DL hours. Then, allocate indirect costs to the units of output using a cost driver rate. For example, it could be $2 dollars per hour of direct labor, or $0.40 per hour of direct labor,
depending on the specifics of the production process.
Direct labor is a typical cost driver for allocating indirect costs to units of output from a production process. But as production processes have become more automated over time, using DL is no longer as common as it once was. As a result, other cost drivers
are frequently used to allocate indirect costs in a production process or in providing services to customers.
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Source:
Hilton, Ronald W., Michael W. Maher, Frank H. Selto. “Cost Management Strategies for Business Decision”, Mcgraw-Hill Irwin, New York, NY, 2008.
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