MGAB03H3 Lecture 4: Week 4 - 5 chapter notes

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N manufacturing companies purchase raw materials and components and process them and make them into finished goods. N therefore, manufacturing companies may have leftover inventories in the raw materials account, the work-in-process (partially finished products) account, and the finished goods account at the end of an accounting period. N managers in merchandising companies need to prepare the schedule of cogs as a part of preparing the income statement. N managers in manufacturing companies need to prepare not only schedule of cogs but also schedule of cog manufactured. N managers necessarily measure past costs when producing financial statements and other reports of an organization"s profits. N outsiders, such as shareholders, use profitability to assess management performance and to make investment and other decisions. N managers also use past cost information to monitor operations, develop estimated costs for bids, and sometimes make long-term decisions such as whether to introduce a new product for all these decisions it is important to distinguish costs.

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