What is variance analysis? Definition of Variance Analysis In accounting, a variance is the difference between an actual amount and a budgeted, planned or past amount. Variance analysis is one step in the process of...
What is variance analysis? Definition of Variance Analysis In accounting, a variance is the difference between an actual amount and a budgeted, planned or past amount. Variance analysis is one step in the process of...
What does an unfavorable volume variance indicate? An unfavorable volume variance indicates that the amount of fixed manufacturing overhead costs applied (or assigned) to the manufacturer’s output was less than the...
Isn't all overhead fixed? Not all overhead is fixed. Some manufacturing overhead costs, which are also referred to as indirect factory costs, are variable. A common example of a variable overhead cost is the electricity...
What is the weakness of traditional cost allocations? Traditional cost allocations are often based on volume such as number of products manufactured, number of direct labor hours, number of production machine hours,...
What is standard costing? Definition of Standard Costing Standard costing is an accounting system used by some manufacturers to identify the differences or variances between: The actual costs of the goods that were...
What is a predetermined overhead rate? Definition of Predetermined Overhead Rate A predetermined overhead rate is often an annual rate used to assign or allocate indirect manufacturing costs to the goods it produces....
What is setup cost? Definition of Setup Cost In manufacturing, setup cost is the cost incurred to get equipment ready to process a different batch of goods. Hence, setup cost is regarded as a batch-level cost in activity...
What is meant by overabsorbed? Overabsorbed is usually used in the context of a manufacturer’s production overhead costs. Since manufacturing overhead costs are not directly traceable to products, they need to be...
What is the coefficient of determination? The coefficient of determination is a statistic which indicates the percentage change in the amount of the dependent variable that is “explained by” the changes in the...
What is the major weakness of the traditional method of allocating factory overhead? Definition of Traditional Method Allocating Factory Overhead The traditional method of allocating factory overhead (manufacturing...
of production method, let’s assume that a company has a machine with a cost of $500,000 and a useful life that is expected to end after producing 240,000 units of a component part. Further, the machine’s salvage...
What is the coefficient of correlation? Definition of Coefficient of Correlation In simple linear regression analysis, the coefficient of correlation (or correlation coefficient) is a statistic which indicates an...
In standard costing, how is the purchase price variance reclassified to arrive at actual cost? Definition of Purchase Price Variance In standard costing, the purchase price variance is the difference between the actual...
What is decentralization? Definition of Decentralization Decentralization refers to a company’s top management delegating authority to subunits or segments of the company such as a company consisting of a consumer...
What are direct costs? Definition of Direct Costs Direct costs are directly traceable to a cost object such as a product or a department. In other words, direct costs do not have to be allocated to a product, department,...
What is the price earnings ratio? The price earnings ratio, or P/E ratio, is the market price per share of common stock divided by the earnings per share of common stock. A corporation with a high price earnings ratio is...
What is the high-low method? Definition of High-Low Method The high-low method is a simple technique for determining the variable cost rate and the amount of fixed costs that are part of what’s referred to as a mixed...
Why would the cost behavior change outside of the relevant range of activity? Cost behavior often changes outside of the relevant range of activity due to a change in the fixed costs. When volume increases to a certain...
What is cost behavior? Definition of Cost Behavior Cost behavior is an indicator of how a cost will change in total when there is a change in some activity. In cost accounting and managerial accounting, three types of...
Why doesn't AccountingCoach.com classify the financial ratios? We avoided classifying the financial ratios because a financial ratio may overlap several classifications, and there are several different titles for the...
What is benchmarking? Benchmarking is a process for improving some activity within an organization. We will illustrate benchmarking with the following example. Company Q has identified one of its activities that needs...
What is direct labor? Definition of Direct Labor Direct labor refers to the employees and temporary staff who work directly on a manufacturer’s products. (People working in the production area, but not directly on the...
What is credit analysis and financial analysis? Credit analysis is associated with the decision to grant credit to a customer. It is also part of a bank’s lending procedures for making a loan and monitoring the...
What is a budget? A budget is a financial plan for future activities. The budgets used in business often include a sales or revenues budget detailed by products or services, production budgets, budgets for each...
What is the 13-point average for inventory? The 13-point average for inventory for the calendar year 2023 would be the sum of the following: (the inventory amount at December 31, 2022 plus the 12 end-of-the-month amounts...
What is the dividend yield? The dividend yield is the annual cash dividend per share of common stock divided by the market price of a share of the common stock. Usually, fast growing corporations have a low dividend...
What is a learning curve? Definition of Learning Curve A common learning curve shows that the cumulative average time to complete a manual task (in which learning is involved) will decrease 20% whenever the cumulative...
What is a plant-wide overhead rate? Definition of Plant-wide Overhead Rate A plant-wide overhead rate is often a single rate per hour or a percentage of some cost that is used to allocate or assign a company’s...
What is the break-even formula? Break-even Point in Units of Product The formula for determining the break-even point in units of product sold is: total fixed expenses divided by the contribution margin per unit. For...
Our Explanation of Income Statement helps you learn the most important features of a corporation's income statement (also known as the statement of operations or profit and loss statement). We provide more understanding...
Our Explanation of Bonds Payable covers the recording of bonds, the accrual of interest expense, and the amortization of the discount and premium on bonds payable. You gain an understanding on why the market value of...
Our Explanation of Accounts Receivable and Bad Debts Expense helps you understand the accounting for the losses associated with selling goods and providing services on credit. You will understand the impact on the...
for Doubtful Accounts is a contra account to __________ __________. 4. Inventory is often reported at the lower of __________ or net __________ value. 5. The cost of insurance premiums that have been paid but have not...
receivables show a net realizable value (or cash realizable value, or carrying value) of $__________. 32. Max Corp’s journal entry to write off Jay Corporation’s accounts receivable will include a debit to...
a delivery truck with a cost of $100,000 and it is expected to be used for 5 years. If we also assume that the truck will have no salvage value, the company will record depreciation expense of $100,000 over the five...
details. The $50,000 is a lump sum payment. Sometimes the term lump sum payment merely indicates a single payment. For example, the maturity value of a bond might be referred to as a lump sum payment in order to...
This term might be used to express the combined balances of two accounts. For example, if Equipment has a debit balance of $300,000 and the account Accumulated Depreciation on Equipment has a credit balance of $130,000,...
Accounting estimates include the estimated salvage value and the estimated useful life of depreciable assets, estimated percentage of bad debts expense, estimated percentage of units to be repaired or replaced during a...
A gain that occurs by holding an asset. For example, if a company bought land for $20,000 many years ago and today the company continues to hold the land and its value is now $175,000, the company has a holding gain of...
A dividend in the form of more shares of stock. A 5% stock dividend means that a stockholder holding 100 shares would receive 5 additional shares of stock. Since all shareholders receive additional shares, each...
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