Sam Smear Owns a Manufacturing Company That Makes Ball Point

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Essay

Sam Smear owns a manufacturing company that makes ball point pens. Currently he is trying to decide between two processes for making the pens. The first process will have a fixed cost of $200,000 per year and variable costs of $0.40 per pen. The second process will have a fixed cost of $250,000 per year and variable costs of $0.30 per pen.
a) Identify which ranges of product volume are best for each process.
b) If Sam makes 200,000 pens, which process provides a lower cost?

Understand how the process of journalizing differs from posting.

Identify common errors in the trial balance and their rectification.

Learn about the role and structure of the chart of accounts.

Understand basic accounting concepts such as debits, credits, and the normal balance of various types of accounts.

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Definitions:

Journal Entry

A record in accounting that represents a transaction with debits and credits documented in the appropriate accounts.

Streamline

To simplify or eliminate unnecessary steps in a process to increase efficiency and improve performance.

Purchasing Process

The sequence of steps followed by an organization to acquire goods or services, starting from the identification of the need to the receipt and approval of the item.

Cash Equivalents

Short-term, highly liquid investments that can be easily converted into a known amount of cash.