Connect 2 Semester Access Card for Financial and Managerial Accounting
Connect 2 Semester Access Card for Financial and Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780077633059
Author: John Wild, Ken Shaw
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 19, Problem 6BTN
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Variable Costing:

It refers to the method of product costing in which the price of the product is calculated considering only the variable or direct costs or the cost that happened to occurred due to the product only. It is also called as marginal costing as it takes marginal costs while calculating the product cost.

Absorption Costing:

It refers to the method of product costing in which the price of the product is calculated considering all the fixed as well as the variable or direct costs. The valuation of closing inventory in this method is consists of both fixed and variable costs.

To identify: At least one specific decision in context in which absorption costing is more relevant than variable costing and one specific decision in which variable costing is more relevant than absorption costing.

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