7. Comparison of direct costing to absorption costing. Hubert Corporation's November income statement, based on direct costing, is as follows: Sales (100,000 units @ $24).. Variable cost of goods sold (100.000 units @ $12). Contribution margin... Less fixed expenses: $2,400,000 1,200,000 $1,200.000 Factory overhead.. Marketing and administrative. Operating income.. S600,000 400,000 1,000,000 $ 200,000 Normal capacity for November is 150,000 units, with 145,000 units produced in November. Required: (1) Prepare the November income statement on an absorption costing basis, with applied factory overhead based on normal capacity and any over- or underapplied factory overhead closed to Cost of Goods Sold. (2) Reconcile and explain the difference between the direct costing and the absorption costing operating income figures. (3) Expiain :he features associated with direct costing income measurement that should be useful to management. (ICMA adapted)
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
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