ACC 202 Test 1: Key Topics and Exam Breakdown
There are 40 questions on the test. The specific topics for each question are as follows:
Chapter 1: 9 Questions
- Customer Value Propositions: Customer value propositions tend to fall into three broad categories: customer intimacy, operational excellence, and product leadership.
- CMA Ethical Requirements: Competence, Confidentiality, Integrity, Credibility.
- Difference Between Financial and Managerial Accounting: Financial accounting serves the needs of those outside the organization, whereas managerial accounting serves the needs of managers employed inside the organization.
- Qualities of Management Accounting Information as Contrasted with Financial Accounting Information (4 Questions): Managerial accounting helps managers perform three vital activities: planning, controlling, and decision-making.
- Planning: The process of establishing goals and specifying how to achieve them. It involves establishing goals and specifying how to achieve them.
- Controlling: The process of gathering feedback to ensure that a plan is being properly executed or modified as circumstances change. It involves gathering feedback to ensure that the plan is being properly executed or modified as circumstances change.
- Decision Making: Selecting a course of action from competing alternatives. It involves selecting a course of action from competing alternatives.
- Budget Definition: A budget is a detailed plan for the future that is usually expressed in formal quantitative terms.
- Planning and Control Cycle: The planning and control cycle involves the smooth flow of management activities from planning through directing and motivating, controlling, and then back to planning again.
Chapter 2: 17 Questions
- Compute Prime Costs: Prime cost is the sum of direct materials cost and direct labor cost.
- Opportunity Cost: Opportunity cost is the potential benefit that is given up when one alternative is selected over another.
- Determine the Amount of Sunk Costs: A sunk cost is a cost that has already been incurred and that cannot be changed by any decision made now or in the future.
- MOH (Manufacturing Overhead) Definition: MOH includes all manufacturing costs except direct materials and direct labor. Manufacturing overhead includes items such as indirect materials; indirect labor; maintenance and repairs on production equipment; and heat and light, property taxes, depreciation, and insurance on manufacturing facilities.
- Cost Behavior for Fixed and Variable Costs.
- Mixed Cost Behavior in Total Given Changes in Volume.
- Regression Analysis and Scattergraph.
- Determining Total Cost from the Cost Equation Y = a + b(x).
- Compute Direct Labor (DL) Cost and Conversion Cost (2 Questions).
- Compute Product Costs and Overhead (OH) Costs (2 Questions).
- Classification of Cost as Fixed, Variable, Product, Period, Direct Material (DM), Direct Labor (DL), Overhead (OH), Prime and Conversion (2 Questions).
- Computations Under High-Low (H-L) Method to Determine the Elements of Y = a + b(x) (3 Questions).
Chapter 3: 10 Questions
- Source Documents Used for Job Order Costing.
- Allocation of Overhead Versus Tracing of Direct Material and Direct Labor.
- Compute the Predetermined Overhead Rate (POHR) (4 Questions).
- Under and Over-Applied Overhead (OH) and Disposition of Such.
- Compute the Cost Recorded for a Given Job.
- Compute Cost of Goods Manufactured (COGM) (2 Questions).
Wall Street Journal: 4 Questions
- WSJ – Post Office
- WSJ – Super Bowl
- WSJ – Disney
- WSJ – Apple