Required: 1. Calculate the cost assignment ratios to be used under the direct method for Departments S1 and S2. (Note: Each support department will have two ratios—one for Cutting and the other for Sewing.) Enter your answers as decimal values. S1 S2 Cutting Sewing 2. Allocate the support department costs to the producing departments by using the direct method. Use a minus sign to indicate a subtraction. For those boxes in which no entry is required, leave the box blank or enter zero ("0"). Support Departments Producing Departments Allocate: S1 S2 Cutting Sewing Direct costs $ $ $ $ S1 S2 Total $ $ $ $
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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Appendix 4B) Assigning Support Department Costs by Using the Direct Method
Quillen Company manufactures a product in a factory that has two producing departments, Cutting and Sewing, and two support departments, S1 and S2. The activity driver for S1 is number of employees, and the activity driver for S2 is number of maintenance hours. The following data pertain to Quillen:
Support Departments Producing Departments S1 S2 Cutting Sewing Direct costs $180,000 $150,000 $122,000 $90,500 Normal activity: Number of employees — 30 63 147 Maintenance hours 1,200 — 16,000 4,000 Required:
1. Calculate the cost assignment ratios to be used under the direct method for Departments S1 and S2. (Note: Each support department will have two ratios—one for Cutting and the other for Sewing.) Enter your answers as decimal values.
S1 S2 Cutting Sewing 2. Allocate the support department costs to the producing departments by using the direct method. Use a minus sign to indicate a subtraction. For those boxes in which no entry is required, leave the box blank or enter zero ("0").
Support Departments Producing Departments Allocate: S1 S2 Cutting Sewing Direct costs $ $ $ $ S1 S2 Total $ $ $ $
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