Saturday, 23 August 2014

BASIC ACCOUNTING & FINANCE INTERVIEW SHORT QUESTIONS (131-140)




131. Cost: The amount of expenditure incurred on to a given thing.

132. Cost accounting:  It is thus concerned with recording, classifying, and summarizing costs for determination of costs of products or services planning, controlling and reducing such costs and furnishing of information management for decision making.

133. Elements of cost:  (A) Material (B) Labour (C) Expenses (D) Overheads

134. Components of total costs:  (A) Prime cost (B) Factory cost (C)Total cost of production (D) Total c0st

135. Prime cost:  It consists of direct material direct labour and direct expenses.  It is also known as basic or first or flat cost.

136. Factory cost:  It comprises prime cost, in addition factory overheads which include cost of indirect material indirect labour and indirect expenses incurred in factory. This cost is also known as works cost or production cost or manufacturing cost.

137. Cost of production:  In office and administration overheads are added to factory cost, office cost is arrived at.

138. Total cost:  Selling and distribution overheads are added to total cost of production to get the total cost or cost of sales.

139. Cost unit:  A unit of quantity of a product, service or time in relation to which costs may be ascertained or expressed.


140. Methods of costing:  (A)Job costing (B)Contract costing (C)Process costing (D)Operation costing (E)Operating costing (F)Unit costing (G)Batch costing.

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