As a new accountant of the company, you are provided with the following information related to KOKO.: Product Annual production and sales unit Direct material cost per unit Direct labour cost per unit Machine hours per unit Selling price per unit Koko 5,500 RM50 RM35 3 hours RM150 The company is considering of changing the traditional method to the Activity Based Costing (ABC) method. In order to adopt ABC method the following information is required Activity Cost Cost Driver Pool Expected overhead Expected use of drivers per product Other products 3,500 costs коко (RM) No of purchase orders Machine hours Maintenance Maintenance hours Number of | inspections Total Purchasing 4,000 37,500 Machining 16,500 8,000 1,500 147,000 3,500 43,000 Quality 1900 1600 17,500 control 245,000 Required: If the company decided to use the Activity Based Costing (ABC) method, determine the cost per unit of KOKO. a.
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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