Barbara Company keeps detailed records of maintenance expense. March had the highest level of activity with 16,000 units and August had the lowest level of activity with only 9,000 units produced. Maintenance expense for March was $36,000 and for August it was $23,750. The average maintenance cost for the year was $26,700 and the predetermined overhead rate was $2.50 per unit produced. Show all your calculations for the following questions:
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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a) Using the High-Low method calculate the fixed cost and the variable rate per unit. Round the variable rate to 2 decimal points. b) Show the cost equation for maintenance expense. c) If the expected production is estimated to be 40,000 units what would be the estimated maintenance expense be?
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