ADM 3346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indirect Costs, Income Statement, Variable Cost

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Chapter 2: an introduction to cost terms and purposes. Cost: a resource sacrificed or forgone to achieve a specific objective. Budgeted cost: expected or predicted to occur in the future (forecast) Cost accumulation: the collection of actual cost data in an organized way. Cost assignment: links a pool of actual costs to a distinct cost object. Period cost (all non-manufacturing costs: expensed on the income statement in the period that they are incurred, includes all selling & administrative expenses. Product cost (all manufacturing costs: direct materials, direct labour & overhead, charged to inventory accounts until product is sold. Cost allocation: the method used to divide up an indirect cost pool unequally and assign costs to diverse cost objects. Cost assignment is a general term that encompasses both: tracing direct costs to a distinct cost object, allocating indirect costs among diverse cost objects. Prime costs: direct manufacturing costs but are not always classified.

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