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Managerial Business

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Product Costs   Includes costs of purchasing/making a product. Ex: direct materials, direct labor & manufacturing. Recorded as assets on inventory accounts on balance sheet. Doesn't become expense until the company has sold the inventory (COGS) on income statement.  
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Period Costs   non-manufacturing cost. selling & administrative expenses & other other expense such as taxes & interest. Ex: salaries and wages of the accounting staff, rent for the admin building, sales commissions paid to sales reps, utilities paid for marking office  
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Job order costing system   companies that manufacture batches of unique or specialized products  
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Process costing system   for the production of similar things  
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direct costs   Allocated directly to the Work-in-Process Inventory account  
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indirect costs   Allocated to the Manufacturing Overhead account  
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Manufacturing Overhead   costs other than direct materials & direct labor including storing materials, machine setup & cleaning the work area resulting in indirect materials & labor, repair, utilities, rent, insurance, property taxes & depreciation on plant building & equipment  
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Job Cost Record   as a company incurs costs related to a job, it adds cost to which then is added to WIP Inventory  
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Finished Goods Inventory   When the job is finished the company totals the cost and transfers the cost from WIP Inventory to....  
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Cost of Good Sold, an expense   When the job's units are sold, the costing system moves the costs from FG Inventory, an asset to....  
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Financial accounting   Reports must follow GAAP, reports audited annually by independent certified public accountants, helps investors make investment decisions  
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Managerial Accounting   Provides detailed reports on parts of the company, helps in planning and controlling operations  
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Prime Cost   Direct Materials + Direct Labor  
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Conversion costs   Direct Labor + Manufacturing Overhead  
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Creditors and Stockholders   External parties for whom financial accounting reports are prepared  
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Controlling   The role managers play when they are monitoring day to day operations and keeping the company on track  
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Managers   Internal decision makers  
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Planning   The management function that involves choosing goals and deciding how to achieve them  
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