ACC 560 Week 8 Quiz – Strayer NEW
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Week 8 Quiz 7:
Chapter 11
TRUE-FALSE STATEMENTS
1. Inventories cannot be valued at standard cost in financial
statements.
Ans: LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Legal/Regulatory, AICPA FN: Reporting, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Reporting
2. Standard cost is the industry average cost for a particular
item.
Ans: LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
3. A standard is a unit amount, whereas a budget is a total amount.
Ans: LO: 1, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
4. Standard costs may be incorporated into the accounts in the
general ledger.
Ans: LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
5. An advantage of standard costs is that they simplify costing of
inventories and reduce clerical costs.
Ans: LO: 2, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
6. Setting standard costs is relatively simple because it is done
entirely by accountants.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Decision Modeling, AICPA PC: None, IMA:
Cost Management
7. Normal standards should be rigorous but attainable.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
8. Actual costs that vary from standard costs always indicate
inefficiencies.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
9. Ideal standards will generally result in favorable variances for
the company.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
10. Normal standards incorporate normal contingencies of production
into the standards.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
11. Once set, normal standards should not be changed during the
year.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
12. In developing a standard cost for direct materials, a price
factor and a quantity factor must be considered.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
13. A direct labor price standard is frequently called the direct
labor efficiency standard.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
14. The standard predetermined overhead rate must be based on direct
labor hours as the standard activity index.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
15. Standard cost cards are the subsidiary ledger for the Work in
Process account in a standard cost system.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost Management
16. A variance is the difference between actual costs and standard
costs.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
17. If actual costs are less than standard costs, the variance is
favorable.
Ans: LO: 3, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
18. A materials quantity variance is calculated as the difference
between the standard direct materials price and the actual direct materials
price multiplied by the actual quantity of direct materials used.
Ans: LO: 4, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
19. An unfavorable labor quantity variance indicates that the actual
number of direct labor hours worked was greater than the number of direct labor
hours that should have been worked for the output attained.
Ans: LO: 4, Bloom: C, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
20. Standard cost + price variance + quantity variance = Budgeted
cost.
Ans: LO: 4, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: None, AICPA BB:
Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: None, IMA: Cost
Management
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