Luebke Incorporated has provided the following data for the month of November. The balance in the Finished Goods inventory account at the beginning of the month was $52,000 and at the end of the month was $30,000. The cost of goods manufactured for the month was $212,000. The actual manufacturing overhead cost incurred was $55,000 and the manufacturing overhead cost applied to Work in Process was $58,000. The company closes out any underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead to cost of goods sold. The adjusted cost of goods sold that would appear on the income statement for November is: $234,000
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.
The manufacturing overhead cost is said to be over-applied when actual manufacturing overhead is lower than the applied manufacturing overhead cost. The over-applied overhead cost is deducted from the unadjusted cost of goods sold before posting cost of goods sold to income statement.
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