Terry,a CPA,flew from Dallas to New York to Attend a Conference.The

question 15

Essay

Terry,a CPA,flew from Dallas to New York to attend a conference.The conference lasted four days.Then she took three days of vacation to go sightseeing.Terry's expenses for the trip are as follows:
$\begin{array}{lr}\text { Airfare }&\$525\\\text { Lodging }(7 \text { days } \times \$ 155)&1,085\\\text { Meals }(7 \text { days } \times \$ 120)&840\\\text { Taxi from airport to hotel and back }&70\end{array}$
Calculate Terry's travel expense deduction.

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Definitions:

Materials Requisitions

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Process Cost System

An accounting system that accumulates manufacturing costs and then assigns them to a large number of identical or similar units of output, common in continuous manufacturing environments.

Job Order Cost System

An accounting system that accumulates costs for each individual job or batch of goods, tracking direct labor, direct materials, and overhead.

Process Cost Systems

An accounting system used to apply costs to similar products that are mass-produced in a continuous fashion, assigning costs to units of product based on the processes they go through.