Bradbo owned two adjoining restaurants, the Pork Palace and the Chicken Hut. Each restaurant was treated as a profit center for performance evaluation purposes. Although the restaurants had separate kitchens, they shared a central baking facility. The principal costs of the baking area included materials, supplies, labor, and depreciation and maintenance on the equipment. Bradbo allocated the monthly costs of the baking facility to the two restaurants based on the number of tables served in each restaurant during the month using dual allocation and equal sharing of fixed costs. In April, the costs were $39,000, of which $20,500 were fixed. The Pork Palace served 3,830 tables, while the Chicken Hut served 5,745 tables. 1. The amount of the joint cost that should have been allocated to the Chicken Hut in April is calculated to be 2. The amount of joint cost that should have been allocated to the Pork Palace in April is calculated to be
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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.
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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.
Bradbo owned two adjoining restaurants, the Pork Palace and the Chicken Hut. Each restaurant was treated as a profit center for performance evaluation purposes. Although the restaurants had separate kitchens, they shared a central baking facility. The principal costs of the baking area included materials, supplies, labor, and depreciation and maintenance on the equipment.
Bradbo allocated the monthly costs of the baking facility to the two restaurants based on the number of tables served in each restaurant during the month using dual allocation and equal sharing of fixed costs. In April, the costs were $39,000, of which $20,500 were fixed. The Pork Palace served 3,830 tables, while the Chicken Hut served 5,745 tables.
1. The amount of the joint cost that should have been allocated to the Chicken Hut in April is calculated to be
2. The amount of joint cost that should have been allocated to the Pork Palace in April is calculated to be
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