75. As a Certified Management Accountant, Jill is bound by the standards of ethical conduct issued by the Institute of Management Accountants. If she accepts an expensive gift from a vendor trying to win a contract with her firm, which of the following standards will she violate?
A. Competence
B. Confidentiality
C. Integrity
D. Objectivity
76. Which of the following is not a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
A. The chief executive officer and the chief financial officer are jointly responsible for establishment and enforcement of internal controls.
B. Companies are required to report on the effectiveness of their internal controls.
C. The company's external auditors are required to attest to the accuracy of the internal controls report.
D. The company's external auditor is charged with the ultimate responsibility for the accuracy of the company's financial statements and accompanying footnotes.
77. Which of following practices is considered an effective means of reengineering business systems?
A. Identifying the best practices used by world-class competitors
B. Improving the accuracy of cost allocations
C. Eliminating non-value added activities
D. All of these
78. Lil Company incurs unnecessary costs each period because of the excess quantities of inventory maintained to meet unexpected customer demand. The costs of inventory financing, storage, supervision, and obsolescence could most likely be reduced by which of the following practices?
A. Activity-based costing
B. Value chain analysis
C. Just in time
D. All of these
79. Which of the following activities adds value to a product or service?
A. Inspection time
B. Move time
C. Process time
D. Rework time
80. Which of the following best represents a characteristic of managerial accounting?
A. Information is historically based and reported annually.
B. Information is based on estimates and is bounded by relevance and timeliness.
C. Information is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
D. all of these
81. Which of the following statements concerning manufacturing costs is correct?
A. All salaries incurred by a manufacturing company are expensed as incurred
B. Direct labor costs are recorded initially in an inventory account.
C. Depreciation on manufacturing equipment is a period cost.
D. The cost of direct materials can be readily traced to products.
Steele Company produces inexpensive camping and outdoor grills. During 2012, Steele Company incurred the following costs:
82. Wages paid to factory machine operators in producing the grills should be categorized as:
A. A product cost and recorded in the inventory account
B. A period cost and recorded on the income statement
C. A product cost and recorded on the income statement
D. A period cost and recorded in the inventory account
83. Based on the above information, the amount of period costs shown on Steele‘s 12/31/2012 income statement is:
A. $215,000
B. $90,000
C. $15,000
D. $75,000
84. Based on the above information, which of the following would not be treated as a product cost:
A. Depreciation on manufacturing equipment
B. Rent expense incurred on manufacturing facility
C. Office manager's salary
D. Salaries of factory machine operators