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Pricing Strategy
Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A cost is incurred when a resource is used for some purpose. | Cost |
| Costs are assembled into meaningful groups called cost pools. | Cost Pool |
| Any factor that has the effect of changing the level of total cost is called a cost driver. | Cost Driver |
| Any product, service, customer, activity, or organizational unit to which costs are assigned. | Cost Object |
| The process of assigning costs to cost pools or from cost pools to cost objects. | Cost Assignment |
| Costs that can be conveniently and economically traced to a cost pool or cost object. | Direct Costs |
| Costs that cannot be traced conveniently or economically to a cost pool or cost object. | Indirect Costs |
| The assignment of indirect costs to cost pools and cost objects through the use of cost drivers. | Cost Allocation |
| Cost of materials that can be readily traced to outputs. | Direct Material Costs |
| Cost of materials that cannot be readily or economically traced to outputs. | Indirect Material Costs |
| Labor that can be readily traced to outputs. | Direct Labor Costs |
| Labor costs that cannot be readily or economically traced to outputs. | Indirect Labor Costs |
| Indirect costs including indirect materials, indirect labor, and other indirect items. | Overhead |
| Direct materials + Direct labor. | Prime Costs |
| Direct labor + Overhead. | Conversion Costs |
| Cost drivers developed at a detailed level of operations using activity analysis. | Activity-Based Cost Drivers |
| Cost drivers developed at an aggregate level and relate to the amount produced or quantity of service provided. | Volume-Based Cost Drivers |
| The change in total cost associated with each change in quantity of a selected cost driver. | Variable Cost |
| The portion of total cost that does not change with changes in quantity of the selected cost driver. | Fixed Cost |
| A total cost figure that includes both a fixed and variable component. | Mixed Cost |
| Costs that vary with the change in cost driver volume but do so in steps. | Step Cost |
| Cost drivers involving plans and decisions with long-term effects. | Structural Cost Drivers |
| Cost drivers focusing on short-term operational decisions. | Executional Cost Drivers |
| Costs necessary to complete the product. | Product Costs |
| Costs incurred in managing or selling the product. | Period Costs |
| A business that makes products. | Manufacturing Company |
| A business that purchases and sells products. | Merchandising Company |
| Quality of cost information affected by internal accounting controls. | Accuracy |
| Information being available when needed, even if some accuracy or detail is sacrificed. | Timeliness |
| The cost of obtaining information should not outweigh its benefits. | Cost and Value of Information |
| Total cost divided by units of output. | Unit Cost |