Cost Accounting

Cost Accounting, 14e (Horngren/Datar/Rajan) Chapter 20 Inventory Management, Just-in-Time, and Simplified Costing Methods Objective 20. 1 1) Which of the following industries would have the highest cost of goods sold percentage relative to sales? A) computer manufacturers B) retail organizations C) drug manufacturers D) The percentage will usually depend on the success of a particular […]

Harvard Business School 9-192-068 Rev. May 1, 1993 DO A Brief Introduction to Cost Accounting T NO Organizations and managers are almost always interested in and concerned about costs. Control of past, present, and future costs is part of every manager’s job. In companies that try to earn profits, control of costs directly affects the […]

The matching principle of accounting dictates that for every revenue generated, a corresponding cost should be attributed to it.  In order to determine the resulting profit properly, these components should be matched against each other. This has been the guiding convention of financial reporting since the practice of accounting became an integral part of the […]

In Barnes Scuba Diving case, the main comparison for the flexible-budget variance analysis would be between the actual results and flexible budget. Static budget would not be useful for this comparison due to the different sales unit output which may result in a misleading and inaccurate result comparison. With reference to the Flexible Budget Section […]