A cabinet manufacturing company has started its operations by July, ist. The following cost items have been determined until the end of December: (a) Raw material #1 -> unit cost is 20 $/m2 and 6 m2 is required per cabinet; Raw material #2 -> unit cost is 40 $/m2 and 4 m2 is required per cabinet. (b) Spare material (such as screw, lock, nail etc.) -> unit cost is 70 $ per cabinet. (c) Direct labor costs -> 150 $ per cabinet. (d) Foreman and supervisor cost -> 100.000 $ monthly. (e) Machinery depreciation -> 120.000 $ monthly. (f) Administrative costs of production -> 140.000 $ monthly. Suppose that the company has produced 2.000 cabinets during the period. What would be the unit cost for these cabinets? Suppose that the company has sold all of its cabinets at a price of 1.800 $.| What is the gross profit? What is the breakeven number of units?
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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