Answers the questions

1. Distinguish between financial and managerial accounting for (a) first users of reports, (b) types and frequency of reports, and (c) purpose of reports.

2. How are manufacturing costs classified?

3. What are the similarities between "job order" and "process cost system"?

4. What is the meaning of the term "equivalent units of production"?

5. "Cost-Volume-Utility (CVU) analysis is based entirely on unit costs." Do you agree? Explain.

6. The balance point analysis is limited to use by management because a company cannot survive only with the break-even point. Do you agree? Explain.

7. What are the steps a management uses for the decision-making process?

8. Define the term "opportunity cost." How is this cost relevant to the manufacturing or purchase decision?

9. What is a budget? How can a budget contribute to good management of any organization?

10. What is the criterion that helps determine the time horizon of a budget period? What is the most common budget period?