Match the descriptions that follow with the corresponding terms. Descriptions: 1. ______ Inventory system in which goods

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Match the descriptions that follow with the corresponding terms. Descriptions:

1. ______ Inventory system in which goods are manufactured or purchased just as they are needed for sale.

2. ______ A method of allocating overhead based on each product’s use of activities in making the product.

3. ______ Systems that are especially important to firms adopting just-in-time inventory methods.

4. ______ Provides guidelines for companies to describe their sustainable business practices to external parties.

5. ______ Part of the value chain for a manufacturing company.

6. ______ The U.S. economy is trending toward this.

7. ______ A performance-measurement approach that uses both financial and nonfinancial measures, tied to company objectives, to evaluate a company’s operations in an integrated fashion.

8. ______ Requires that top managers certify that the company maintains an adequate system of internal controls.

Terms:

(a) Activity-based costing

(b) Balanced scorecard

(c) Total quality management (TQM)

(d) Research and development, and product design

(e) Service industries

(f) Just-in-time (JIT) inventory

(g) Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

(h) Global Reporting Initiative

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Accounting Principles

ISBN: 978-1118875056

12th edition

Authors: Jerry Weygandt, Paul Kimmel, Donald Kieso

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