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Cost Accounting 101 Practice Test: Basics of Job Costing
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Job costing, also known as project-based accounting or job order costing, is an accounting process that tracks the costs associated with individual tasks or jobs. It's used by businesses of all sizes, including construction, manufacturing, accounting companies, and law firms.  Job costing involves: Assigning job numbers to individual items of expenses and revenues Determining the cost of labor and materials for each job Using this information to create a quote for the customer  Job costing can help you answer questions like: How much does it cost to complete a project? How much does it... Show more
Cost Accounting 101 Practice Test: Basics of Job Costing
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1. Process costing:
2. In a costing system:
3. ________ is the process of distributing indirect costs to products.
4. Each indirect-cost pool of a manufacturing firm:
5. The reliability of the job-cost records depends on the reliability of the inputs.
6. Actual (rather than allocated) manufacturing overhead costs are included in the:
7. The advantage of using normal costing instead of actual costing is:
8. When using a normal costing system, manufacturing overhead is allocated using the ________ manufacturing overhead rate and the ________ quantity of the allocation base.
9. ________ costing is used by a business to price homogeneous products.
10. A company would use multiple cost-allocation bases:
11. For externally reported inventory costs, the Work-in-Process Control account is increased (debited) by:
12. All of the following are true of the Work-in-Process Control account EXCEPT that:
13. When the allocated amount of indirect costs are less than the actual amount, indirect costs have been:
14. When actual indirect costs exceed allocated indirect costs, indirect costs have been underapplied.
15. A ________ links an indirect cost to a cost object.
16. The ________ approach adjusts individual job-cost records to account for underallocated or overallocated overhead.
17. When a normal costing system is used, clients using proportionately more attorney time than paraprofessional time will:
18. While costs are measured for individual jobs in a job cost system, they are measured for individual process stages in a process costing system.
19. Managers and accountants collect most of the cost information that goes into their systems through:
20. Which of the following statements about actual costing and normal costing is true?
21. The overhead accounts are closed or become zero at the end of each year.
22. A budgeted indirect-cost rate is computed for each cost pool using budgeted indirect costs and the budgeted quantity of the cost-allocation base.
23. One reason indirect costs may be overapplied is because:
24. The cost allocation base
25. Job-costing may only be used by:

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