The following are nine technical accounting terms introduced or emphasized in this chapter:

Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms. For each statement, indicate the accounting term described, or answer “None” if the statement does not cor- rectly describe any of the terms.

a.     

Responsibility margin Transfer price Common fixed costs Contribution margin Cost-plus transfer price Traceable fixed costs Performance margin Product costs Committed fixed costs

The costs deducted from contribution margin to determine responsibility margin.

b.      Cost to produce plus a predetermined markup.

c.      Fixed costs that are readily controllable by the manager.

d.      A subtotal in a responsibility income statement, equal to responsibility margin plus committed fixed costs.

 

 

e.      The subtotal in a responsibility income statement that is most useful in evaluating the short- run effect of various marketing strategies on the income of the business.

f.      The subtotal in a responsibility income statement that comes closest to indicating the change in income from operations that would result from closing a particular part of the business.

g.      The amount used in recording products or services supplied by one business unit to another.