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RIFT-VALLEY UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS


DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING I (ACFN2141) TEST I (15%)

NAME: ___________________________ ID NO: ____________ SECTION: ______

PART I TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS (6 %)


INSTRUCTION: SAY TRUE IF THE STATEMENT IS CORRECT AND FALSE IF THE STATEMENT IS
INCORRECT AND PROVIDE YOUR ANSWER.

1. Managerial accounting places greater emphasis on the future than financial accounting,
which is primarily concerned with the past.
2. Although financial and managerial accounting differs in many ways, they are similar in that
both rely on the same underlying financial data.
3. Manufacturing overhead is an indirect cost with respect to units of product.
4. Managerial accounting is not needed in a non-profit or governmental organization.
5. Variable costs per unit are affected by changes in activity.
6. Period costs are found only in manufacturing companies, not in merchandising companies.

PART II MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (14 %)


INSTRUCTION: CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER FROM THE GIVEN ALTERNATIVES AND PROVIDE THE
LETTER OF YOUR CHOICE USING CAPITAL LETTER.

1. Management accounting focuses primarily on providing data for:


A. Internal uses by managers.
B. External uses by Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority
C. External uses by stockholders and creditors.
D. External uses by employees and their labor union.

2. Managerial accounting:
A. is more concerned with precision than timeliness.
B. is primarily concerned with providing information to external users.
C. tends to summarize information more than financial accounting
D. is more future oriented than financial accounting.
.
3. Manufacturing overhead includes:
A. Indirect material, but not indirect labor.
B. Indirect labor, but not indirect materials.
C. All manufacturing costs, except direct materials and direct labor.
D. All manufacturing costs, except indirect material and indirect labor.

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4. The term prime cost refers to:
A. Manufacturing costs incurred to produce units of output.
B. The sum of direct labor costs and all factory overhead costs.
C. All costs associated with manufacturing other than direct labor costs and raw material
costs.
D. The sum of direct material costs and direct labor costs.
5. All of the following would be classified as product costs, except:
A. Salaries of the advertising staff.
B. Wages of machine operators.
C. Property taxes on production equipment.
D. Insurance on factory machinery.

6. Prime cost and conversion cost share what common element of total cost?
A. Direct labor.
B. Direct materials.
C. Fixed overhead.
D. Variable overhead.
7. Selling and administrative costs are treated as:
A. Inventoriable costs
B. Product costs
C. Period costs
D. None

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