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This set of Applied Cost Accounting Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Applied Cost Accounting Set 6

Q1 | The most important budget having primary importance is called
  • Sales budget
  • Cash budget
  • Master budget
  • Fixed budget
Q2 | ……………..is a forecast of the total output of the whole organization
  • Sales budget
  • Production budget
  • Master budget
  • Material budget
Q3 | ……………..budget provides information about the materials to be acquired from the market
  • Material budget
  • Production budget
  • Cash budget
  • Purchase budget
Q4 | ……………..budget gives different budgeted cost for different levels of activity
  • Flexible budget
  • Fixed budget
  • Master budget
  • Production budget
Q5 | In contract costing payment of cash to the contractor is made on the basis of
  • Estimated work
  • Standard work
  • Certified work
  • Uncertified work
Q6 | In job costing each job is a ……………..to which all cost are assigned
  • Profit unit
  • Cost unit
  • Expenses
  • Variable
Q7 | In contract costing credit is taken only for a part of the profit on
  • Incomplete contract
  • Complete contract
  • Estimated contract
  • Initial contract
Q8 | If the contract is almost complete, the amount of profit generally transferred to profit and loss account is equal to
  • Estimated profit*(Contract price/Work certified)
  • National profit*(Cash Received/Work certified)
  • Estimated profit*(Work certified/Contract price)
  • Work certified*(Contract price/Estimated price)
Q9 | Job costing can be done in conjunction with
  • Standard costing
  • Process costing
  • Multiple costing
  • Marginal costing
Q10 | In contract costing most of the items of cost are
  • Direct
  • Indirect
  • Variable
  • Semivariable
Q11 | When the completion stage of a contract is less than ¼ of the total expenditure on the contract is transferred to
  • Profit & Loss account
  • Work certified account
  • Work in progress account
  • Contract account
Q12 | Contract testing is a basic method of
  • Specific costing
  • Specific order costing
  • Economic batch costing
  • Economic order costing
Q13 | At break even point, the
  • Fixed cost equal to the total sales value
  • Variable cost equal to the total sales value
  • Total cost equal to the total sales value
  • Variable cost equal to fixed cost
Q14 | At break even point, the contribution equal to
  • Fixed cost
  • Variable cost
  • Total cost
  • Zero
Q15 | Break even chart depicts
  • Cost volume profit relationship
  • Relationship between fixed and variable cost only
  • Relationship between price and quantity demanded
  • Relationship between price and quantity supplied
Q16 | Period costs means
  • Variable cost
  • Fixed cost
  • Prime cost
  • Direct cost
Q17 | The valuation of stock, in marginal costing, as compared to absorption costing is
  • Higher
  • Lower
  • Same
  • Difficult to say
Q18 | Contribution margin is also known as
  • Gross profit
  • Net profit
  • Earning before interest and tax
  • Marginal income
Q19 | Contribution is the difference in
  • Sales and fixed cost
  • Sales and variable cost
  • Sales and total cost
  • Variable cost and fixed cost
Q20 | Contribution is the sum of
  • Fixed cost and profit
  • Variable cost and profit
  • Total cost and profit
  • Factory cost and profit
Q21 | The angle formed at the intersection of sales line and variable cost line is called
  • Angle of incidence
  • Acute angle
  • Loss area
  • Profit area
Q22 | Profit-volume ratio is a relationship between
  • Profit earned to sales volume
  • Target profit to target sales volume
  • Contribution to sales
  • All of the above
Q23 | During the boom period, the profits of a firm will increase at a much faster rate whose P/V ratio is,
  • Very high
  • Moderate
  • Low
  • Very low
Q24 | During the recession period, the profits of a firm will decrease at a much slower rate whose P/V ratio is,
  • Very high
  • Moderate
  • Low
  • Very low
Q25 | When variable cost per unit increases break even point ……………….
  • Increase
  • Decreases
  • Does not change
  • Difficult to say