A car component can be produced by either of two manufacturing methods, method A or method B. For method A the fixed costs are £70000 per year and the variable costs are £21 per component. For method B the fixed costs are £82000 per year and the variable costs are £18 per component. Calculate the break-even quantity per year, for which the cost of manufacture is the same whichever method is used.
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.
![A car component can be produced by either of two manufacturing
methods, method A or method B. For method A the fixed costs are £70000
per year and the variable costs are £21 per component. For method B the
fixed costs are £82000 per year and the variable costs are £18 per
component.
Calculate the break-even quantity per year, for which the cost of
manufacture is the same whichever method is used.
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