Chapter 2 Case 1: Greetings Inc.: Job Order Costing Solution: 1. As seen in the case‚ using a traditional job-order costing system Wall Décor charges the actual costs of direct materials and direct labor to its specific jobs- unframed prints‚ steel-framed and no matting prints‚ wood-framed and mating prints. Since costs of manufacturing overhead related to production operations as whole‚ these costs cannot be assigned to specific jobs on the basis of actual costs incurred. Instead‚ Wall
Premium Costs Variable cost Cost
meaning of a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate that is applied in a job-order costing system. The predetermined overhead rate is used for estimating the manufacturing overhead cost because companies cannot assign the actual overhead cost to specific job. From the case‚ Wall Décor uses a traditional job-order costing system. The actual costs of direct materials and direct labor are charged to its specific jobs which are unframed prints‚ steel-framed with no matting prints‚ and wood-framed
Premium Costs Mathematics Variable cost
PROCESS COSTING-SINGLE DEPARTMENT INTRODUCTION In process costing system‚ a large number of homogenous products passed through several production departments where each department is responsible for one or more operations that bring a product one step closer to completion. In each department‚ materials‚ labor and overhead inputs may be needed and upon completion of a particular process‚ the partially completed goods are transferred to another process. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF JOB ORDER
Premium Inventory Costs FIFO and LIFO accounting
ACCT283B group project Chapter 18: Process Costing Abstract This paper identifies the key points on Process Costing. It covers over various topics like the flow of costs through a process costing system‚ how to calculate equivalent units of production for direct materials and conversion costs‚ the preparation of a production cost report‚ and how to prepare journal entries for a process costing system. Examples will also be shown on how process costing is used in the real world through
Premium Costs Manufacturing
PROCESS COSTING DR. ALOK DIXIT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT LUCKNOW COSTING SYSTEMS USED TO DETERMINE PRODUCT COSTS Costing Systems Process Costing Job-order Costing Mass production of identical or similar products (at process-level). For example‚ Sugar‚ food‚ chemical industry. Many units of a single‚ homogeneous product flow evenly through continuous production process(s). One unit of product is indistinguishable (at process-level) from any other unit of product. Each unit
Premium Costs Units of measurement Measurement
Two general approaches are used for costing products for the purpose of valuing inventories and cost of goods sold. One approach is called absorption costing. Absorption costing is generally used for external financial reports. The other approach called variable costing is preferred by some companies for internal decision making and must be used when an income statement is prepared in the contribution format. Ordinarily absorption costing and variable costing produce different figures for net income
Premium Variable cost Marginal cost Revenue
Absorption Costing -Overview 1. Overview of Absorption costing and Variable Costing 2. Review how costs for Manufacturing are transferred to the product 3. Job Order Vs. Process Costing 4. Overhead Application -Under applied Overhead -Over applied overhead 5. Problems with Absorption Costing 6. Concluding Comments Absorption Costing The focus of this class is on how to allocate manufacturing costs to the product. -Direct Materials -Direct Labor -Overhead Absorption
Premium Manufacturing Management accounting Variable cost
Topic: Product costing Ningbo lecturer: Ms. Huang HuiQin – E: huanghuiqin@nbu.edu.cn – P: 86-574-87600960 Student: Lê Uyên Phương (Phoebe) – E: leuyenphuongvn@yahoo.com – P: 86-15 757 829 310 Student ID: 1211125031 NBU Intake 12‚ 2012 Required: Examine the literature to identify the different perspectives on how a product’s cost may be formulated. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches to product costing that have been proposed
Premium Management accounting Costs Cost
Contract closing a method of costing large projects‚ where the contracted work will run over several accounting periods Every organisation will have its own costing system with characteristics which are unique to that particular system. However‚ although each system might be different‚ the basic costing method used by the organisation is likely to depend on the type of activity that the organisation is engaged in. The costing system would have the same basic characteristics as the systems
Premium Cost accounting Cost Costs
Costing Methods Paper Baldomero Garza‚ Carrie Davis Tsao‚ Chelse Monnier‚ Elizabeth Sanchez‚ Lea Dague‚ ACC/561 November 26‚ 2012 Cathleen Davis Costing Methods Paper Costing Methods Franco Harris’ company Super Bakery‚ Inc. has seen significant success along with continued growth throughout its existence. The authors point out that the company has enjoyed a 20% average growth “during most of its existence” (Kimmel‚ Weygand‚ & Kieso‚ 2009). The purpose of this analysis is to identify
Premium Cost accounting Cost Management accounting