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3-2 Assignment: Costing Methods
Kimberly Barrick
ACC 202-Managerial Accounting Southern New Hampshire University
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Company Overview: I have chosen to analyze the Soundcore company in order to find the best costing method to fit the company. Soundocre is sister company of Anker and is a speaker and headphone company that produces Bluetooth home speakers and Bluetooth headphones for in ear listening. I have several different speakers from them so I thought this would be a good fit for analysis. They produce multiple different styles of in ear buds and open ear buds as well. Soundcore is a award winning company that has been around since 2014. Soundcore would be considered a manufacturing company, meaning it takes unfinished materials and turns them into a product that can be sold. Soundcore not only sells products on their own website, but also produces their brand of speakers and headphones to be sold at other outlets (Walmart, Target, etc.).
Costing Method: There are two different costing methods to decide from when looking at
Soundcore, the job order method and the process costing method. With the job order cost system is used more my companies that create products for customers that come in batches of custom products or jobs. Process costing methods will give us the cost based off of the manufacturing departments and processed and is used when larger batches of products are made. Some of the differences in these methods we can see that with process ordering determines the costs based off
each department’s activities instead of basing it off each individual sales/job. Another big difference in the two is what documents are used to track these costs. A job cost sheet would be utilized for companies that use the job costing method and a cost report would be used to track costs when using the process costing method. I believe that the process costing method would be better suited out of these two for Soundcore due to the fact that they produce bigger quantities of the same products and not small custom batches. With Soundcore using the process costing
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method it would help warrant tracking the cost of the units since they are being produced in larger quantities.
Factory Overhead: In order for Soundcore to stay in business there are many different costs that need to be accounted for. Some of these costs are direct to the product, such as materials, cost of factory employee labor and there are some indirect costs to keep everything else at the factory running. These non-product costs are considered indirect costs, ranging from office supplies and managerial salaries to price stickers for merchandise. The company also needs to track their overhead costs, which are things like maintaining equipment in the factory, electricity, insurance, and depreciation of the warehouse and equipment. The ABC based costing method makes it possible for companies to keep track of overhead costs by allocating funds for the company’s activities first, whereas when multiple production department factory overhead rates are utilized, the costs are recorded from the production departments. If Soundcore was to use the ABC method, some of their cost drivers would be the creation of parts needed or the speakers, the process of putting together the item, having someone check quality of products, and
the need to change/design new products for the company. Recommendations: With Soundcore being a company that produces large quantities of similar products I believe that the process cost system would be the best costing system to use. This would be the ideal costing system since Soundcore will be making speakers and headphones
in a continuous stream, not in custom order batches. Using the process cost system will allow Soundcore to track their product costs for each department instead of tracking them job by job. I believe if Soundcore tried to use other costing methods there would be a potential for miscalculation on how much overhead is really needed.
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Tayler, W. & Warren, C. (2020). Managerial Accounting: 15th ed. Boston, MA: Cengage. https://ng.cengage.com/static/nb/ui/evo/index.html?
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