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Chapter 16: Q1TI_3 (page 865)
Identify the following characteristics as primarily related to financial accounting (FA) or managerial accounting (MA):
3. Is not required to follow GAAP.
GAAP refers to the accounting principles and guidelines and the correct answer is managerial accounting.
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Applying ethical standards
Ava Borzi is the new controller for Halo Software, Inc. which develops and sells education software. Shortly before the December 31 fiscal year-end, Jeremy Busch, the company president, asks Borzi how things look for the year-end numbers. He is not happy to learn that earnings growth may be below 9% for the first time in the company’s five-year history. Busch explains that financial analysts have again predicted a 9% earnings growth for the company and that he does not intend to disappoint them. He suggests that Borzi talk to the assistant controller, who can explain how the previous controller dealt with such situations. The assistant controller suggests the following strategies:
a. Persuade suppliers to postpone billing \(18,000 in invoices until January 1.
b. Record as sales \)120,000 in certain software awaiting sale that is held in a public warehouse.
c. Delay the year-end closing a few days into January of the next year so that some of the next year’s sales are included in this year’s sales.
d. Reduce the estimated Bad Debts Expense from 3% of Sales Revenue to 2%, given the company’s continued strong performance.
e. Postpone routine monthly maintenance expenditures from December to January.
Requirements
1. Which of these suggested strategies are inconsistent with IMA standards?
2. How might these inconsistencies affect the company’s creditors and stockholders?
3. What should Borzi do if Busch insists that she follow all of these suggestions?
Match the definition to the key term.
13. Triple bottom line
14. Value chain
15. Just-in-time management
16. Enterprise resource planning
17. Total quality management
a. A cost management system in which a company produces products just in time to satisfy needs.
b. A philosophy designed to integrate all organizational areas in order to provide customers with superior products and services, while meeting organizational goals throughout the value chain.
c. Software system that can integrate all of a company’s functions, departments, and data into a single system.
d. Evaluating a company’s performance by its economic (profits), social (people), and environmental (planet) impact.
e. Includes all activities that add value to a company’s products and services
Identifying product costs and period costs Classify each cost of a paper manufacturer as either a product cost or a period cost:
h. Cost to purchase wood pulp.
Explain the difference between line positions and staff positions.
Preparing an income statement and calculating unit cost for a merchandising company
Dillon Young owns Dillon’s Pets, a small retail shop selling pet supplies. On December 31, 2018, the accounting records for Dillon’s Pets showed the following:
Merchandise Inventory on December 31, 2018 $ 10,500
Merchandise Inventory on January 1, 2018 16,000
Net Sales Revenue 56,000
Utilities Expense for the shop 3,200
Rent for the shop 4,100
Sales Commissions 2,750
Purchases of Merchandise Inventory 25,000
Requirements
1. Prepare an income statement for Dillon’s Pets for the year ended December 31, 2018.
2. Dillon’s Pets sold 5,550 units. Determine the unit cost of the merchandise sold, rounded to the nearest cent.
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