8) Although marketable securities may be retained for several years, they continue to be
classified as temporary, provided they are readily marketable and can be sold for cash at
any time.
9) When a bottleneck occurs between two products, the company must determine the
contribution margin for each product and manufacture the product that has the highest
contribution margin per bottleneck hour.
10) In an absorption costing income statement, the manufacturing margin is the excess
of sales over the variable cost of goods sold.
11) The ratio of net sales to assets measures how effectively a business is using its
assets to generate sales.
12) The number of days sales in receivables is an estimate of the length of time the
accounts receivables have been outstanding.
13) Costs associated with normal research and development activities should be treated
as intangible assets.
14) Businesses who have several bank accounts, petty cash, and cash on hand, would
maintain a separate ledger account for each type of cash.