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Lesson 13 Managerial Accounting: Concepts and Principles
Task Team ofFUNDAMENTAL ACCOUNTINGSchool of Business, Sun Yat-sen University
Outline
• What is managerial accounting?• Comparison between managerial accounting and
financial accounting• Cost classifications in different ways • Flow of manufacturing activities• Job order cost accounting systems and process cost
accounting systems• Cost allocation
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Introduction• The previous 12 chapters focus on the financial
accounting topics– Please summarize the basic points of financial accounting
• Users/ Time focus/ Emphasis/ Importance/ Subject focus/ Requirements
– Thinking• Is the information provided by financial accounting enough for an
enterprise to conduct its operation and management?• If not, how to satisfy this demand for the internal used information?• Have you ever heard “managerial accounting”?
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What is Managerial Accounting?
• An activity that provides financial and nonfinancial information to managers and other internal decision makers
• Is quite important to planning, control, and decision making activities
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The Environment of Managerial Accounting
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Managerial Accounting and Financial Accounting
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Cost Classifications
• Costs can be classified by:– Relevance– Behaviour– Controllability– Traceability– Function
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Costs Classification by Relevance• Relevant
– If costs influence a decision• Costs that are applicable to a particular decision.• Costs that should have a bearing on which alternative a
manager selects.• Costs that are avoidable.• Future costs that differ between alternatives.
• Irrelevant– If costs do not influence a decision
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Costs Classification by Relevance
• Sunk Costs– All costs incurred in the past that cannot be changed by any
decision made now or in the future.– should not be considered in decisions.– Irrelevant– Example: You bought an automobile that cost $30,000 two
years ago. The $30,000 cost is sunk because whether you drive it, park it, trade it, or sell it, you cannot change the $30,000 cost.
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Costs Classification by Relevance
• Out-of-pocket costs– require future outlays of cash– associated with a particular decision– relevant for future decisions– Example: Considering the decision to take a
vacation or stay at home, if you choose a vacation, you will only have travel costs (out-of-pocket costs).
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Costs Classification by Relevance
• Opportunity Costs– The potential benefit that is given up when one
alternative is selected over another.– Example: If you were not attending college or
university, you could be earning $25,000 per year. Your opportunity cost of attending college or university for one year is $25,000.
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Costs Classification by Behavior
• Cost behavior refers to– how a cost will react to changes in the level of
business activity.
• Fixed costs – do not change when activity changes.
• Variable costs – change in proportion to changes in the volume of
activity
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Costs Classification by Behavior
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• Total fixed costs remain unchangedwhen activity changes within a relevant range.
• Fixed costs per unit decline as activity increases.
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• Total variable costs change when activity changes.• Variable costs per unit do not change as activity
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Costs Classification by Behavior• Mixed costs
– contain a combination of fixed and variable costs.
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Costs Classification by Behaviour• Step-Wise Costs
– remain fixed over limited ranges of volumes but increase by a lump sum when volume increases beyond maximum amounts.
– Example: additional production supervisors must be added when another shift is added.
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Costs Classification by Controllability
• Controllable vs. not controllable– depends upon the employee’s responsibilities.– Example: A lower level manager may have control
over overtime costs but not over the purchase of high-cost machinery.
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Costs Classification by Traceability
• Management often traces costs to cost objects – To obtain a better measure of their total cost– Cost objects include
• Products• Services• Departments• Divisions• Customer groups
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Costs Classification by Traceability
• Traceable costs are classified as– Direct costs
• can be conveniently traced to a unit of product or other cost objective.
• Examples: salaries of production workers, salary of maintenance department employees.
– Indirect costs• must be allocated to a unit of product or other cost
objective.• Examples: factory rent, factory light and heat, factory
accounting costs.
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Costs Classification by Function• Manufacturing Costs
– are necessary and integral to the production of finished goods.
– Examples: direct labour, direct materials, and manufacturing overhead.
• Non-Manufacturing Costs– are not integral to the manufacture of finished
goods.– Examples: selling and administrative expenses.
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Costs Classification by Function
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ManufacturingManufacturingCostsCosts
ManufacturingManufacturingCostsCosts
DirectDirectMaterialMaterial
DirectDirectMaterialMaterial
DirectDirectLabourLabour
DirectDirectLabourLabour
ManufacturingManufacturingOverheadOverhead
ManufacturingManufacturingOverheadOverhead
Costs Classification by Function• Direct materials
– Materials that are clearly and easily identified with a particular product.
– Example: Steel used to manufacture an automobile
• Direct labour– Labour costs that are clearly traceable to, or readily
identifiable with, the finished product.– Example: Wages paid to an automobile assembly
worker.
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Costs Classification by Function
• Manufacturing overhead– All manufacturing costs except direct material and
direct labour.– Manufacturing costs that cannot be traced directly
to specific units produced.– Examples:
• Indirect labour – maintenance• Indirect material – cleaning supplies• Factory utility costs• Supervisory costs
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Costs Classification by Function
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Manufacturing costs are oftencombined as follows:
Costs Classification by Function
• Non-Manufacturing costs (period costs) are expenses not charged to the product.– Selling Costs
• Costs incurred to obtain customer orders and to deliver finished goods to customers —advertising and shipping.
– Administrative Costs• Non-manufacturing costs of staff support and
administrative functions —accounting, data processing, personnel, research and development.
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Discussions• ABC company manufactures a portable radio
designed for mounting on the wall of the bathroom. The following list represents some of the different types of costs incurred in the manufacture of these radios:
1. The plant manager's salary.2. The cost of heating the plant.3. The cost of heating executive offices.4. The cost of printed circuit boards used in the radios.5. Salaries and commissions of company salespersons.
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Discussions6. Depreciation on office equipment used in the executive
offices.7. Depreciation on production equipment used in plant.8. Wages of janitorial personnel who clean the plant.9. The cost of insurance on the plant building.10. The cost of electricity to light the plant.11. The cost of electricity to power plant equipment.12. The cost of maintaining and repairing equipment in the
plant.13. The cost of printing promotional materials for trade
shows.14. The cost of solder used in assembling the radios.15. The cost of telephone service for the executive offices.
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Discussions
• Required:– Classify each of the items above as product
cost or period costs.
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Discussions: the answer
1 Product 6 Period 11 Product
2 Product 7 Product 12 Product
3 Period 8 Product 13 Period
4 Product 9 Product 14 Product
5 Period 10 Product 15 Period
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Flow of Manufacturing Activities
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Raw Materials
Beginning Inventory
Raw Materials
Purchases
Goods in Process
Beginning InventoryFinished Goods
Beginning Inventory
Raw Materials Used
Direct Labour Used
Materials ActivityMaterials Activity
(raw materials)(raw materials)
Financial ReportsFinancial Reports Raw MaterialsRaw MaterialsEnding Inv.Ending Inv.
(balance sheet)(balance sheet)
Production ActivityProduction Activity
(goods in process)(goods in process)
Goods in ProcessGoods in ProcessEnding Inv.Ending Inv.
(balance sheet)(balance sheet)
Finished GoodsFinished GoodsEnding Inv.Ending Inv.
(balance sheet)(balance sheet)
Cost of Goods Cost of Goods Sold (income Sold (income
statement)statement)
Marketing ActivityMarketing Activity
(finished goods)(finished goods)
Goods
Manufactured
Factory Overhead
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Job Order Cost Accounting Systems• Job Order Cost Accounting Systems
– The production of products in response to special orders.
– quite flexible in the number of products they can produce.
• Jobs involving the production of more than one unit of product are called job lots.
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Job Order Cost Accounting Systems
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Goods inGoods in Process Process
Goods inGoods in Process Process
Cost of Cost of GoodsGoodsSoldSold
Cost of Cost of GoodsGoodsSoldSold
LabourLabourLabourLabour
MaterialsMaterialsMaterialsMaterials
Indirect
Indirect
Indirect
Indirect
FinishedFinishedGoodsGoods
FinishedFinishedGoodsGoods
FactoryFactoryOverheadOverhead
FactoryFactoryOverheadOverhead
DirectDirect
DirectDirect
AllocateAllocate CompletedCompleted
DeliveredDelivered
Job Order Cost Accounting Systems
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DirectMaterials
DirectMaterials
Cost per unit for Job No. 1
Cost per unit for Job No. 1
DirectLabour
DirectLabour
FactoryOverhead
FactoryOverhead
Job No. 1Job No. 1 Finished Goods
Finished Goods
Job No. 2Job No. 2 Finished Goods
Finished Goods
Cost per unit for Job No. 2
Cost per unit for Job No. 2
Process Cost Accounting Systems
• Process Cost Accounting Systems – Used for production of small, identical, low- cost
items.– Mass produced in automated continuous
production process.– Costs cannot be directly traced to each unit of
product.
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Process Cost Accounting Systems
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DirectDirectMaterialsMaterials
DirectDirectMaterialsMaterials
FinishedFinishedGoodsGoods
FinishedFinishedGoodsGoods
DirectDirectLabourLabour
DirectDirectLabourLabour
FactoryFactoryOverhead Overhead
FactoryFactoryOverhead Overhead
Process 1Process 1Process 1Process 1 Process 2Process 2Process 2Process 2
Cost per Cost per equivalent equivalent
unit for unit for Process 1Process 1
Cost per Cost per equivalent equivalent
unit for unit for Process 1Process 1
Cost per Cost per equivalent equivalent
unit for unit for Process 2Process 2
Cost per Cost per equivalent equivalent
unit for unit for Process 2Process 2
Total cost Total cost per per
equivalent equivalent unitunit
Total cost Total cost per per
equivalent equivalent unitunit
• Unit cost – To determine the cost of goods transferred from
department to department and to finished goods, we need to calculate unit cost.
– Unit cost is computed by dividing the accumulated costs by the number of equivalent units produced in the period.
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Cost perCost perequivalent equivalent
unitunit
Cost perCost perequivalent equivalent
unitunit
== Product costs for the periodProduct costs for the periodEquivalent units for the periodEquivalent units for the periodProduct costs for the periodProduct costs for the period
Equivalent units for the periodEquivalent units for the period
Process Cost Accounting Systems
• Costs are accumulated for a period of time by process or department.
• Equivalent units is a concept expressing a number of partially completed units as a smaller number of fully completed units.– Example: Three one-third full pitchers are
equivalent to one full pitcher.– Equivalent units may be different for material and
labour and overhead at different stages of a process.
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Process Cost Accounting Systems
Comparing Job Order and Process Production
• Similarities– Same objective
• to determine the cost of products
– Same inventory accounts• raw materials, goods in process, and finished goods
– Same overhead assignment method• predetermined rate times actual activity
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Comparing Job Order and Process Production
• Job Order Systems– Custom orders– Heterogeneous products– Low output volume– High flexibility– Low to medium
standardization
• Process Systems– Repetitive production– Homogeneous offerings– High output volume– Low product flexibility– High standardization
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DifferencesDifferencesDifferencesDifferences
Cost Allocation
– Plant-wide Overhead Rate
– Two-stage Cost Allocation
– Activity-based Costing
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• Methods of Overhead Cost AllocationMethods of Overhead Cost Allocation• Methods of Overhead Cost AllocationMethods of Overhead Cost Allocation
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• Plant-wide Overhead Rate– A single plant-wide overhead rate is relatively easy
to use– but may result in inaccurate product costs
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Cost Allocation
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• Two-stage Cost Allocation• More accurate method than plant-wide
Stage 1: Allocate service department costs to production departments. Service department costs are assigned to operating (or production) departments.
Stage 2: Allocate production department costs to cost objects. Costs accumulated within operating (or production) departments are assigned to cost objects.
Cost Allocation
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Cost Allocation
• Activity-based Costing– Attempts to better allocate costs to the desired
cost objects by focusing on activities consumed by the cost objects.
– Many activities within a department drive overhead costs.
• Products require activities.• Activities consume resources.
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Cost Allocation
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Overhead ActualOverhead Actual Rate Activity Rate Activity
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Rate = Estimated overhead costs in activity cost pool
Estimated number of activity units
Allocate overhead cost:
• Activity-based Costing: Procedures Identify activities that consume resources. Assign costs to a cost pool for each activity. Identify cost drivers associated with each activity. Compute overhead rate for each cost pool.
Cost Allocation• Activity-based Costing: Identifying Cost Drivers
– Most cost drivers are related to either volume or complexity of production.
– Examples: purchasing, invoicing, quality inspection, product design.
– Three factors in choosing a cost driver:• Causal relationship• Benefits received• Reasonableness.
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Cost Allocation
Cost Cost Driver
Materials purchasing Number of purchase orders
Materials handling Number of materials requisitions
Personnel Number of employees
Equipment amortization Number of products produced or hours of use
Quality inspection Number of units inspected
Indirect labour in setting up equipment
Number of setups required
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Activity-based Costing: Cost and Cost Driver
Cost Allocation
• Activity-based Costing: Benefits– More detailed measures of costs– Better understanding of activities– More accurate product costs for . . .
• Pricing decisions• Product elimination decisions• Managing activities that cause costs
– Benefits should always be compared with costs of implementation
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Summary• Managerial accounting is quite important to planning, control,
and decision making activities.• Managerial accounting and financial accounting are
different in users, time focus, requirements, etc. • Costs can be classified by relevance, behaviour,
controllability, traceability, and function.• Flow of manufacturing activities.• Similarities and differences between job order and
process cost accounting systems• The methods of cost allocation: plant-wide overhead rate,
two stage cost allocation, activity-based costing
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Case Study• ABC Company acquired its factory building about 25 years ago.
For a number of years, the company has rented out a small, unused part of the building. The renter's lease will expire soon. Rather than renewing the lease, ABC Company is considering using the space itself to manufacture a new product. Under this option, the unused space will continue to be depreciated on a straight-line basis, as in past years.
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Case Study• Direct materials and direct labour cost for the new product is
$45 per unit. In order to store finished units of the new product, the company will rent a small warehouse nearby. The rental cost is $1,800 per month. It will cost the company an additional $3,500 each month to advertise the new product. A new production supervisor, hired to oversee production of the new product, will be paid $2,500 per month. The company will pay a sales commission of $12 for each unit of product that is sold.
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Case Study• Required:
– Complete the chart below (in the next page) by placing an "" under each column heading that helps to identify the costs listed to the left. You can place an "" under more than one heading for a single cost: for example, a cost may be a product cost, an opportunity cost, and a sunk cost; you would place an "" under each of these headings on the answer sheet opposite the cost.
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Case StudyOpportunity
CostSunk Cost Variable
CostFixed Cost
Product Cost
Selling & Administration
Cost
Rent on unused factory space
depreciation
Direct material + direct labour
Rental cost of warehouse
Advertising cost
Supervisor’s salary
Sales commissions
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The End of Lesson 13