Online Accounting Dictionary

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  • Facility-level activity (also called, a business/organization sustaining activity) is an activity that supports business operations in general and cannot be traced to individual units, batches, or products.
  • Factory overhead is any manufacturing cost that is not direct materials or direct labor.
  • Financial accounting provides information that is designed to satisfy the needs of external users. Such reporting is usually done in the form of financial statements.
  • Financial reporting is a process through which companies communicate information to the public.
  • Finished goods are completed manufactured items that a company has produced for sale to customers.
  • First-in, first-out (FIFO) inventory costing method assumes that the costs of earliest inventories acquired are the first to be recognized as the cost of goods sold.
  • Fixed costs remain the same as the level of activity (cost driver) changes.
  • FOB destination implies terms of sale under which title of goods passes to the buyer at the point of destination.
  • FOB shipping point implies terms of sale under which title of goods passes to the buyer at the point of shipment. FOB shipping point is sometimes called FOB origin.
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