A company manufactures small assemblies to order and has the following budgeted overheads for the year, based on normal activity levels. Department Budgeted Overheads Overhead Absorption Base Blanking Machining Welding Assembling 1,500 labour hours 7,500 22,500 9,000 5,000 2,500 machine hours 1,800 labour hours 1,000 labour hours Selling and Administrative Overheads are 20% of Factory Cost. An order for 250 assemblies type X 128 made as Batch 5931 incurred the following costs : Materials $ 5,702 Labour-128 hours Blanking Shop at $ 4.50/hour ; 452 hours Machining Shop at $ 5.0/hour ; 90 hours Welding Shop at $ 4.5/hour; 175 hours Assembly Shop at $ 3.6/hour. $ 525 was paid for the hire of special X-ray equipment for testing the welds. The time booking in the machine shop was 643 machine hours. Calculate the total cost of the batch, the unit cost and profit per assembly if the selling price was $ 100/assembly.
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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