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Business Math Ch. 11
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Expenses incurred while traveling for business; mileage, hotel fees, meal charges, airfares, taxi fares, rental car charges, expenses for entertaining customers, and related expenses. | Travel Expenses |
| Free on board; a term used in price quotations to tell who will pay transportation costs. | F.O.B. |
| A service for delivery of heavy, bulky goods. | Freight |
| Allows you to claim depreciation over a fixed number of years depending on the class life of the property. | Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) |
| A variable-rate way of depreciating that provides decreasing amounts of depreciation as an item ages. | Sum-Of-The-Years-Digits Method |
| A way of figuring depreciation at a fixed rate on a decreasing balance; fixed-rate method. | Declining-Balance Method |
| Original cost less total depreciation to date. | Book Value |
| Costs such as raw materials, direct labor, and energy that vary or change with the amount of goods produced and sold. | Variable Costs |
| Overhead items such as rent, salaries, heat, and insurance that remain the same no matter how much is produced and sold. | Fixed Costs |
| The point at which income from sales equals total costs of producing and selling goods. | Break-Even Point |
| The sum of the costs of raw materials, direct labor, and factory expense. | Total Manufacturing Cost |
| The total cost of items such as rent, depreciation, heat, light, power, insurance, supplies, and indirect labor used in a factory. | Factory Overhead |
| The cost of raw materials and direct labor. | Prime Cost |
| An employee who is needed and paid by the day. | Per Diem |