Crex Co was set up by Cynthia Rex who created her own brand of chalk paint 20 years ago. Using her background in fine art, she developed this specialist chalk paint to be used in the restoration of furniture and to decorate accessories. The chalk paints are exclusively available through Crex Co's network of over 800 independent stockists who are located in over 30 countries around the world. The manufacturing process begins with the three chemicals required for the paint being measured on electronic scales. A worker then takes the chemicals and places them into a machine for mixing. Once mixed the worker removes the mixture from the machine and transfers it to tin containers. The standard material costs per litre of chalk paint are as follows: Litres required $ per litre 0.80 1.20 0.15 1.40 0.10 0.80 1.05 Material Latex paint Plaster of Paris Calcium carbonate At the end of the last period, actual output of the chalk paint was 3,325 litres and actual data relating to this production is: Materials used Latex paint Plaster of Paris Calcium carbonate Litres 2,140 875 849 $ per litre 1.30 1.37 0.73
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.
Total material mix variance = Standard cost of the actual input materials if the standard mix had been used (-) Standard cost of the actual input materials in the actual mix used
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