One of Varic Company's products goes through a glazing process. The company has observed glazing costs as follows over the last six weeks: Units Total Week Produced Glazing Cost $270 $200 $310 1... 8 2.. 3... 10 4. 4 $190 $240 $290 5 6 . 9. For planning purposes, the company's management wants to know the amount of variable glazing cost per unit and the total fixed glazing cost per week. Required: 1. Using the least-squares regression method, estimate the variable and fixed elements of the glazing cost. 2. Express the cost data in (1) above in the form Y = a + bX. 3. If the company processes seven units next week, what would be the expected total glazing cost?
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.
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