Listed below are eight technical accounting terms introduced or emphasized in this chapter:

  Activity-based management   Life-cycle costing

  Value-added activity Non-value-added activity

  Target costing ...... Total quality management

  Just-in-time manufacturing system Cycle time

   Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms. In the space provided below each statement, indicate the accounting term described, or answer "None" if the statement does not correctly describe any of the terms.

   a The process of using activity-based costs to help reduce or eliminate non-value-added activities.

   b Can be eliminated without affecting the desirability of the product from the perspective of the customer.

   c The length of time for a product to pass completely through a specific manufacturing process.

   d If eliminated, the desirability of the product to consumers is decreased.

  e Consideration of all potential resources that will be consumed by a product from development through disposal.

  f A method in which a product's selling price is determined by adding a fixed profit margin to its production cost.

   g An approach that explicitly monitors quality costs and rewards quality enhancing behavior.

3. Define the following

1. Opportunity cost

2. Outsourcing

3. Relevant cost

4. Irrelevant Cost

5. Direct Cost

6. Indirect cost

7. Manufacturing Overhead

8. Work in process

9. Cost of goods sold

10. Just in time inventory

11. Value added  activities

12. Non value added activities

13. Activity based costing

14. Activity based  management