CHAPTER 15 (FIN MAN); CHAPTER 1 (MAN)
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Financial accounting and managerial accounting are different in several ways. Financial accounting
information is reported in statements that are useful to persons or groups outside of a company. These
statements objectively report the results of operations for fixed periods of time and the financial
2. a. Vertical units are structured as separate businesses within a company and normally develop and
sell products directly to customers. Horizontal units are not responsible for developing and selling
products, but provide services to other horizontal and vertical units within the company.
b. The accounting and legal departments are horizontal units within a company.
c. A consumer products division would be considered a vertical unit within a company.
3. Direct materials cost
6. The three inventory accounts for a manufacturing business are as follows:
a. Finished goods inventory consists of completed (or finished) products that have not been sold.
b. Work in process inventory consists of the direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead
costs for products that have entered the manufacturing process, but are not yet completed.
c. Materials inventory consists of the costs of the direct and indirect materials that have not entered
the manufacturing process.
9. The manufacturing costs incurred during a period include direct materials used in production plus the
direct labor and factory overhead costs incurred during the period. The cost of goods manufactured
for a period is computed by adjusting the manufacturing costs incurred during the period for the
effects of beginning and ending work in process. Beginning work in process inventory is added and
ending work in process is subtracted from the manufacturing costs incurred during a period to arrive
at the cost of goods manufactured for the period.
10. A retail business purchases merchandise (products) in a finished state for resale to customers. The