Candyland uses standard costing to produce a particularly popular type of candy. Candyland's president, Jack McCay, was unhappy after reviewing the income statements for the first three years of business. He said, "I was told by our accountants-and in fact, I have memorized-that our breakeven volume is 25,000 units. I was happy that we reached that sales goal in each of our first two years. But here's the strange thing: In our first year, we sold 25,000 units and indeed we broke even. Then in our second year we sold the same volume and had a significant, positive operating income. I didn't complain, of course .. but here's the bad part. In our third year, we sold 10% more candy, but our operating income dropped by nearly 90% from what it was in the second year! We didn't change our selling price or cost structure over the past three years and have no price, efficiency, or spending variances . so what's going on?!" Home Insert Page Layout Formulas Data Review View D. 1 Absorption Costing 2016 2017 2018 3 Sales (units) 4 Revenues 5 Cost of goods sold: Beginning inventory Production 25,000 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $2,200,000 25,000 27,500 182,500 1,825,000 2,007,500 1,825,000 1,825,000 2,007,500 2,007,500 (182,500) Available for sale Deduct ending inventory Adjustment for production-volume variance Cost of goods sold 12 Gross margin 13 Selling and administrative expenses (all fixed) 14 Operating income 10 (150,000) 1,825,000 1,675,000 2,007,500 11 175,000 325,000 192,500 175,000 175,000 175,000 0$ 150,000 $ 17,500 15 16 Beginning inventory 17 Production (units) 18 Sales (units) 19 Ending inventory 20 Variable manufacturing cost per unit 21 Fixed manufacturing overhead costs 22 Fixed manuf. costs allocated per unit produced $ 2,500 25,000 25,000 25,000 27,500 27,500 25,000 2,500 13 $ $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $1,500,000 13 $ 13 60 $ 60 | $ 60
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.
Prepare a variable costing-based income statement for each year. Explain the variation in variable costing operating income for each year based on contribution margin per unit and sales volume.
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