ACCT I S 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cost Driver

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Finished goods inventory- work is transferred here when manufacturing is completed, and costs are moved from the work-in-process inventory account to the finished goods inventory account. Cost object- anything for which a cost is computed (ex: activities, products, product lines, departments, entire organizations) Consumable resource (flexible resource)- its cost depends on the amount of resource that is used (ex: wood in a furniture factory, iron ore in a steel mill) Capacity related resource- its cost depends on the amount of resource capacity that is acquired and not on how much of the capacity is used (ex: depreciation on production equipment, salaries paid to employees in a consultancy) Direct cost- a cost that is uniquely and unequivocally attributable to a single cost object. Indirect cost- any cost that fails the test of being a direct cost. Cost pool- if the cost is indirect, it is assigned to an indirect cost pool- there can be one or many.

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