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"ABC" company's production costs for January, 2015 were: Direct Material=$10,000 Direct Labor=$5,000 Factory overheads=$1,000

What is the amount of cost traceable to specific products?

a) $5,000

b) $10,000

c) $15,000

d) $16,000

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Question added by Mir Mujtaba Ali , Internal Audit Manager , Confidential
Date Posted: 2015/02/23
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by Deleted user

 The amount of cost traceable to specific products is the direct cost of a cost object . Here direct material + direct labor = $15000 option  c .

Sherif Hamed
by Sherif Hamed , Accountant , TDIC

d) $15,000 because total cost = direct material + direct labor 

ahmed amin
by ahmed amin , Audit supervisor , KPMG

Agree with15,000 direct and labor costs

Ahmed kandil
by Ahmed kandil , Cost Controller , Battour Holding Cpompany

Answer is direct material plus direct labor10000+5000=15000

mohamed Hakim CMA CPA Candidate
by mohamed Hakim CMA CPA Candidate , Accounting Manager , Andersen saudi arabia

Option  C

 

Direct material +direct labor =15000

Sahar Alech
by Sahar Alech , Auditor / Financial Manager , Accounting Services Office

Correct answer15000 Option C

Abd ElRahman Mohammed Idris Mohammed
by Abd ElRahman Mohammed Idris Mohammed , Internal Audit Manager , Kenana Sugar Company Limited

Amount of cost traceable to specific product is $15000 (Direct material + Direct labor)

Waqayan Al Waqayan
by Waqayan Al Waqayan , Secretary of Sharia Supervisory Board (SSB) , Ahli United Bank (AUB)

The answer is C.15000

Direct material +direct labor

Ezzidin Ibrahim
by Ezzidin Ibrahim , Financial Controller , Karim Food Industries

15000, the direct materials and direct labor

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

A traceable cost is a cost for which there is a direct, cause-and-effect relationship with a process, product, customer, geographical area, or other cost object. If the cost object goes away, then the traceable cost associated with it should also disappear.

 

A business must spend money or it cannot operate. A business separates the costs it incurs into two main categories: fixed costs and variable costs. A business may then break its fixed costs down into subcategories: traceable and common fixed costs. A traceable cost is a fixed cost that has a cause-and-effect relationship with a process, a geographic area, a customer or another entity.

Bilal Khan
by Bilal Khan , Senior Tax Accountant , Finvesco Limited

To keep things simple and straight forward sum of all direct costs will be traceable cost. option C $15,000 would be the right answer.

 

However, Overhead cost has a very complex structure to be specifically apportioned to the activity, its not easy but it is traceable.

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