Chicken Company has three lines of business, each of which was determined to be reportable segment. Chicken Company sales aggregated P15,000,000 in 2020 of which Segment Wings contributed 40%. Traceable costs were P3,500,000 for Segment Wings of a total of P10,000,000 for the company as a whole. For internal reporting, Chicken allocates common costs of P3,000,000 based on the ratio of a segment’s income before common costs. In its 2020 financial statements, how much should Chicken report as operating profit for Segment Wings?
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.
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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.
8. Chicken Company has three lines of business, each of which was determined to be reportable segment. Chicken Company sales aggregated P15,000,000 in 2020 of which Segment Wings contributed 40%. Traceable costs were P3,500,000 for Segment Wings of a total of P10,000,000 for the company as a whole. For internal reporting, Chicken allocates common costs of P3,000,000 based on the ratio of a segment’s income before common costs.
In its 2020 financial statements, how much should Chicken report as operating profit for Segment Wings?
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