The following are nine technical accounting terms: Responsibility margin Contribution margin Performance margin Transfer price Cost-plus transfer price Product costs Common fixed costs Traceable fixed costs Committed fixed costs Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms. For each statement, indicate the accounting term described, or answer "None" if the statement does not correctly describe any of the terms. a. The costs deducted from contribution margin to determine responsibility margin. b. Cost to produce plus a predetermined markup. c. Fixed costs that are readily controllable by the manager. d. A subtotal in a responsibility income statement, equal to responsibility margin plus committed fixed costs. The subtotal ina responsibility income statement that is most useful in evaluating the short-run effect of e. various marketing strategies on the income of the business. The subtotal in a responsibility income statement that comes closest to indicating the change in income from f. operations that would result from closing a particular part of the business. g. The amount used in recording products or services supplied by one business unit to another.

The following are nine technical accounting terms: Responsibility margin Contribution margin Performance margin Transfer price Cost-plus transfer price Product costs Common fixed costs Traceable fixed costs Committed fixed costs Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms. For each statement, indicate the accounting term described, or answer "None" if the statement does not correctly describe any of the terms. a. The costs deducted from contribution margin to determine responsibility margin. b. Cost to produce plus a predetermined markup. c. Fixed costs that are readily controllable by the manager. d. A subtotal in a responsibility income statement, equal to responsibility margin plus committed fixed costs. The subtotal ina responsibility income statement that is most useful in evaluating the short-run effect of e. various marketing strategies on the income of the business. The subtotal in a responsibility income statement that comes closest to indicating the change in income from f. operations that would result from closing a particular part of the business. g. The amount used in recording products or services supplied by one business unit to another.

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

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Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions

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