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Cost Accounting Test

Description: Useful for commerce students, SET, UGC exams etc.
Number of Questions: 30
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Tags: Cost Accounting Cost Concepts: Analysis and Behaviour Responsibility Accounting Operation Cost Job, Batch and Contract Costing Inventory Valuation and Control
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______ is an extension of job costing.

  1. Process costing

  2. Batch costing

  3. Contract costing

  4. Operation costing

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B

In automobile industry, cost unit is defined as

  1. a number

  2. a quality of an automobile

  3. a number of automobiles

  4. either (1) or (3)

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B

Cost accounting has been developed because of ____ of financial accounting.

  1. limitations

  2. expenditure

  3. statutory requirements

  4. both (1) and (2)

  5. none of these


Correct Option: A

Costing is a techinique of

  1. inventory control

  2. management control

  3. ascertainment of cost

  4. calculation of cost

  5. reduction of cost


Correct Option: C

Cost unit in a college may be a

  1. teacher

  2. non teacher staff

  3. student

  4. number of departments

  5. none of these


Correct Option: C

Cost accountancy is the science, art and _____ of cost accountant.

  1. profession

  2. management

  3. administration

  4. practice

  5. all of the above


Correct Option: D

When job is very big and spread over long periods of time, the method of costing adopted is

  1. process

  2. job

  3. contract

  4. operation

  5. batch


Correct Option: C

Continuous costing is also called

  1. operation costing

  2. process costing

  3. batch costing

  4. contract costing

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B

The main types of costing for ascertaining costs do not include

  1. uniform costing

  2. standard costing

  3. marginal costing

  4. historical costing

  5. process costing


Correct Option: E

_____ costing is used in transport undertaking.

  1. Operating

  2. Standard

  3. Marginal

  4. Absorption

  5. Service


Correct Option: E

Cost accounting is based on _____ figures.

  1. approximated

  2. estimated

  3. historical

  4. either (1) or (3)

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B

In ____ costing, the cost of a group of products is ascertained.

  1. process

  2. job

  3. batch

  4. service

  5. marginal


Correct Option: C

The total of all direct expenses is known as

  1. total cost

  2. overhead cost

  3. prime cost

  4. work cost

  5. none of these


Correct Option: C

Work cost is the total of

  1. direct costs

  2. indirect costs

  3. variable costs

  4. controllable costs

  5. uncontrollable costs


Correct Option: D

Opportunity cost does not involve

  1. cash inflow

  2. cash outflow

  3. cash outlay

  4. either (1) or (2)

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B

Pocket payment involves payment to

  1. managers

  2. promoters

  3. directors

  4. shareholders

  5. outsiders


Correct Option: E

Depreciation is a/an _____ expenditure.

  1. variable

  2. fixed

  3. direct

  4. indirect

  5. semi-variable


Correct Option: B

Value added is the change in

  1. face value

  2. market value

  3. book value

  4. realisable value

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B

Re-ordering level = Maximum consumption x

  1. Minimum consumption

  2. Maximum re-order period

  3. Minimum re-order period

  4. Both (1) and (2)

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B

______ represents that quantity of material which is normally ordered when a particular material reaches the ordering level.

  1. EOQ

  2. BOQ

  3. EBQ

  4. Re-order period

  5. All of the above


Correct Option: D

The quantity of material to be ordered at one time is known as

  1. EOQ

  2. BOQ

  3. EBQ

  4. Re-order period

  5. All of the above


Correct Option: A

Stock verification sheets are maintained to record the result of _____ verification.

  1. conceptual

  2. physical

  3. economic

  4. detailed

  5. all of the above


Correct Option: B

______ costing is suitable for mines, quaries, cement works etc.

  1. Process

  2. Contract

  3. Batch

  4. Operation

  5. Job


Correct Option: D

Material control aims at achieving effective _____ management.

  1. marketing

  2. production

  3. organiation

  4. material

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D

The two levels of material control are quantity control and

  1. financial control

  2. value control

  3. quality control

  4. both (2) and (3)

  5. all of the above


Correct Option: A

The two aspects of material control are accounting aspect and ............. aspect.

  1. financial

  2. economic

  3. social

  4. operational

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D

Bin card is a record of _____ only.

  1. quality

  2. quanity

  3. numbers

  4. value

  5. none of these


Correct Option: B

Bin card is maintained by

  1. purchase department

  2. production department

  3. marketing department

  4. storeskeeper

  5. none of these


Correct Option: D

Stores ledger is maintained in the _____ department.

  1. cost accounting

  2. stores

  3. purchase

  4. production

  5. none of these


Correct Option: A

An opportunity cost is a/an

  1. explicit cost

  2. implicit cost

  3. variable cost

  4. historical cost

  5. semi-variable cost


Correct Option: A
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