How would a clothes retailer classify the following costs?
Cost???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Materials??????????????? ?Labour????????????? Expenses
Designer skirts???
Heating costs???
Depreciation of fixtures and fittings???
Cashier staff salaries???
Over which of the following is the manager of a profit centre likely to have control?
(i) Selling prices
(ii) Controllable costs
(iii) Apportioned head office costs
(iv) Capital investment in the centre
Which of the following best describes a controllable cost?
Which of the following items might be a suitable cost unit within the credit control department of a company?(i) Stationery cost(ii) Customer account
(iii) Cheque received and processed
Which of the following best describes a period cost?
A company employs four supervisors to oversee the factory production of all its products. How would the salaries paid to these supervisors be classified?
A company manufactures and sells toys and incurs the following three costs:
(i) Rental of the finished goods warehouse
(ii) Depreciation of its own fleet of delivery vehicles
(iii) Commission paid to sales staffWhich of these are classified as distribution costs?
Which of the following describes a cost centre?
The overhead expenses of a company are coded using a five digit coding system, an extract from which is
as follows:
Cost centre?????????????????? Code no?????????????? Types of expense????????????????? ????????????????????? ??? Code no
Machining??????????????????????? 10????????????????????? Indirect materials??????????????????? ?????????????????????? ??? ?410
Finishing??????????????????????????11???????????????????? ?Depreciation of production machinery????????????? ? 420
Packing??????????????????????????? 12???????????????????? ?Indirect wages????????????????????????????????????????????????????430
Stores??????????????????????????????13?????????? ????????????Maintenance materials?????????????????????????????????????? 440
Maintenance????????????????? ??14????????????????????? ?Machine hire costs?????????????????????????????????????????? ? 450??
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??? Depreciation of non-production equipment??????? ??460
The coding for the hire costs of a packing machine is 12450.
Which is the coding for the issue of indirect materials issued from stores to the machining department?
Which one of the following statements does NOT explain why coding systems are used?