A customer has requested a special order of ABC Co's primary product and has offered to pay $30 per unit. While the product would be modified slightly for the special order, the product's normal information is provided below Sales price per unit Direct materials per unit Direct labor per unit $25.50 Total Fixed Costs $6.20 $2 Variable manufacturing overhead per unit $ 4.40 $1,150,000 The customer would like modifications made to each product that would increase the variable costs by $2.20 per unit and that would require an investment of $24,000 in special molds that would have no salvage value. This special order would have no effect on the company's other sales. The company has ample spare capacity for producing the special order. How large would the special order have to be in units in order for ABC Co to break even on the special order?
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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