Waters, Inc. reports the following information: Units produced 2,500 units Units sold 2,000 units Sales price Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling and administrative costs Fixed selling and administrative costs per $200 unit per $40 unit per $25 unit per $20 unit per $90,000 year per $15 unit per $75,000 year Assume that the production costs and sales prices were the same in the previous year. Assume no beginning inventories. Requirements: Calculate the operating income using absorption costing and variable costing. Show all calculations.
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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![Waters, Inc. reports the following information:
Units produced
Units sold
Sales price
Direct materials
Direct labor
Variable
manufacturing
overhead
Fixed
manufacturing
overhead
Variable selling
and
administrative
costs
Fixed selling
and
administrative
costs
2,500 units
2,000 units
per
$200 unit
per
$40 unit
per
$25 unit
per
$20 unit
per
$90,000 year
per
$15 unit
per
$75,000 year
Assume that the production costs and sales prices were the same in the previous
year. Assume no beginning inventories.
Requirements:
Calculate the operating income using absorption costing and variable costing.
Show all calculations.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Ffc30ccd9-a585-426b-a176-a6acada3aad6%2F11edf708-af51-425f-9247-eae0cc262cb6%2Fljgvkae_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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