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Classic Cars, Inc., produces reproduction parts for older automobiles in a sequential process involving four departments: cutting, shaping, painting and finishing, and packaging. Labor time available in the shaping department exerts a limiting constraint on the output of the company. A principal aim of just-in-time management at Classic Cars would be to balance the flow of work through the four departments so as to:


A) Minimize the accumulation of raw material and finished goods inventories.
B) Stabilize inventory turnover.
C) Accurately account for work-in-process inventories.
D) Minimize delivery times of finished goods to customers.

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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A company employing just-in-time management principles will maintain a balanced production line.

A) True
B) False

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Adirondack Designs, Inc., produces wooden furniture in a sequential process involving four departments: cutting, assembly, finishing, and packaging. Labor time available in the finishing department exerts a limiting constraint on the output of the company. According to the Theory of Constraints, process improvements should be confined solely to:


A) The cutting department.
B) The assembly department.
C) The finishing department.
D) The packaging department.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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When a business has entered into the decline phase of its life cycle, activity-based management (ABM) is primarily used to:


A) Manage bottlenecks and optimize revenue based on resources available.
B) Provide information to support downsizing and cost-cutting decisions.
C) Identify non-value-added costs and improve operations to enhance profitability.
D) Improve processes to gain more productivity and find funds for growth by removing waste.

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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A kanban, or small buffer stock, is employed in a cellular flow design to:


A) Minimize internal product failures.
B) Balance a production line where activities have differing output capabilities.
C) Enhance productive capacity.
D) Avoid the limitation imposed by a bottleneck resource.

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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Adirondack Designs, Inc., produces wooden furniture in a sequential process involving four departments: cutting, assembly, finishing, and packaging. Labor time available in the finishing department exerts a limiting constraint on the output of the company. According to the Theory of Constraints, the pace of production for the entire system would be set by:


A) The cutting department.
B) The assembly department.
C) The finishing department.
D) The packaging department.

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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One of the key differences between activity-based costing and activity-based management is that the latter takes a forward rather than historical approach.

A) True
B) False

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Among other products, Bendix Company produces automotive brake pads in its Bowling Green, Ky., factory. In a lean accounting system, which of the following manufacturing costs would Bendix charge to the brake pads produced?


A) Property and casualty insurance premiums on the factory.
B) Property taxes on the factory imposed by the city of Bowling Green.
C) Electric utility costs in the factory.
D) Raw materials used in the brake pads.

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Clean and Shiny, LLC, provides window cleaning services to a number of commercial clients. Window-washing crews are given standard times for servicing certain buildings. Given the experience of the crew, these standards can allow more or less time. The Sunshine Crew has recently begun work for Clean and Shiny. Its performance is evaluated using a rolling or moving average standard that reflects the crew's rate of improvement. The table below contains the required time for washing the windows at the home office of the Pony Express National Bank for six months. Clean and Shiny, LLC, provides window cleaning services to a number of commercial clients. Window-washing crews are given standard times for servicing certain buildings. Given the experience of the crew, these standards can allow more or less time. The Sunshine Crew has recently begun work for Clean and Shiny. Its performance is evaluated using a rolling or moving average standard that reflects the crew's rate of improvement. The table below contains the required time for washing the windows at the home office of the Pony Express National Bank for six months.    Required: Using three months as the basis for a lean accounting elapsed time metric, compute the average time the Sunshine Crew requires to complete the Pony Express National Bank job over time. Use the first three months as your baseline, then add one new observation and delete one to produce successive averages. Required: Using three months as the basis for a lean accounting elapsed time metric, compute the average time the Sunshine Crew requires to complete the Pony Express National Bank job over time. Use the first three months as your baseline, then add one new observation and delete one to produce successive averages.

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According to the Theory of Constraints, all of the following activities help to relieve the problem of a bottleneck in operations except:


A) Eliminating idle time at the bottleneck operation.
B) Reducing set-up time at the bottleneck operation.
C) Shifting products that do not have to be made on bottleneck machines to nonbottleneck machines.
D) Increasing the efficiency of operations at nonbottleneck machines.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Presario Inc. recently installed just-in-time production and purchasing systems. If Presario's experience is similar to that of other companies, Presario will likely:


A) Reduce the number of suppliers with which it does business.
B) Increase the size of individual orders of raw materials.
C) Increase the dollar investment in finished goods inventory.
D) Be less reliant on sales orders as a "trigger" mechanism for production runs.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Activity-based management (ABM) refers to the set of methods intended to control activities so as to:


A) Achieve performance goals.
B) Enhance customer value.
C) Improve profitability.
D) ABM focuses on achieving all of the above.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Just-in-time management can be applied in a service setting if external benchmarks are available to evaluate the efficiency and capacity of activities.

A) True
B) False

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A product's value proposition will never be affected by non-value-added activities.

A) True
B) False

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Like other product costing systems, backflush costing attempts to fully value work-in-process inventories.

A) True
B) False

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Traditional forms of budgets and activity-based budgets both emphasize the work that resources accomplish for the company and its stakeholders.

A) True
B) False

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Of the following, which best illustrates a non-value-added activity?


A) Engineering design changes to enhance product safety.
B) Taking receipt of a customer order.
C) The movement of materials from one workstation to another.
D) Elimination of production delays via just-in-time material receipts.

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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A process is a set of sequential activities that produces a specific output. One of the key attributes of these activities is that they:


A) Are interdependent.
B) Take place in isolated silos.
C) Are inherently inefficient.
D) All add value from the point of view of the customer.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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A core concept of lean accounting is that the selling prices of a company's products and/or services are a function of:


A) Product costs.
B) The product or service's value proposition.
C) The degree of competition in the market.
D) The desired or required rate of profit.

E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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Process management refers to the set of tools and techniques used to manage activities:


A) Within functional "silos."
B) Within individual organizational departments.
C) Across an entire organization.
D) That are constrained by a bottleneck resource.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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