Adams Corporation makes 8,000 units of part G25 each year. This part is used in one of the company's products. The company's Accounting Department reports the following costs of producing the part at this level of activity: Direct materials. Direct labor..... Variable manufacturing overhead.. Supervisor's salary..... Depreciation of special equipment Allocated general overhead Per Unit .$6.70 .$8.10 .$1.10 $2.00 $4.20 $2.10 An outside supplier has offered to make and sell the part to the company for $21.20 each. If this offer is accepted, the supervisor's salary can be avoided. The allocated general overhead represents fixed costs of the entire company; however, if the outside supplier's offer were accepted, only $2,000 of these allocated general overhead costs would be avoided. In addition, the space used to produce part G25 would be used to make more of one of the company's other products, generating an additional segment margin of $15,000 per year for that product. The annual financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company as a result of buying part G25 from the outside supplier should be
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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