An Error in Valuing Inventory Will Cause an Error in the Amount

question 52

True/False

An error in valuing inventory will cause an error in the amount of cost of goods sold.

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Definitions:

Direct Labor-Hours

The total number of work hours spent by employees who are directly involved in the manufacturing process.

Traditional Costing

An accounting method that allocates overhead costs to products based on a predetermined rate, often labor or machine hours.

Activity-Based Costing

An accounting method that identifies and assigns costs to specific activities, thereby more accurately reflecting the costs of products or services.

Overhead Rate

The total of indirect costs of production compared to a base activity measure, like labor hours, used to assign costs to products.