Introduction: Process costing is a form of operations costing which is used where standardized homogeneous goods are produced. This costing method is used in industries like chemicals‚ textiles‚ steel‚ rubber‚ sugar‚ shoes‚ petrol etc. Process costing is also used in the assembly type of industries also. It is assumed in process costing that the average cost presents the cost per unit. Cost of production during a particular period
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Is Standard Costing Still Relevant? Motivation The activity-based costing (ABC)‚ Just-in-Time (JIT)‚ the balanced scorecard‚ and target costing methods appeared and used wide‚ it leads to confusion about the sense of relevant of standard cost. Besides‚ standard costing and variance analysis had become disconnected from actual practices at the industry level. Research question In this case‚ author solved four questions: 1. Is standard costing used in Dubai? 2. How important are various functions
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IS STANDARD COSTING OBSOLETE? Department of Accountancy University of Kelaniya What is Standard costing? Standard costing is technique which establishes predetermined estimates of the costs of products and services and then compares these predetermined costs with actual costs as they are incurred. Management Accounting 2 What is Variance? The difference between a cost’s actual amount and its budgeted or planned amount Unfavorable cost variance Actual cost > Budgeted Amount Favorable cost
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Introduction to Standard Costing Standard costing is an important subtopic of cost accounting. Standard costs are usually associated with a manufacturing company’s costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead. Rather than assigning the actual costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead to a product‚ many manufacturers assign the expected or standard cost. This means that a manufacturer’s inventories and cost of goods sold will begin with amounts reflecting
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AN IDEAL APPROACH TO STANDARD COSTING By Jitesh Chandak INTRODUCTION Before you start your study on standard costing you must be clear in your mind that you are going to study a chapter which wants more practice and hard work to develop a strong and sound concept. Costing can be defined as “The technique and process of ascertaining costs.” Standard costing is a technique‚ which uses standards for cost and revenue for the purpose of control through
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Introduction * Meaning of Standard Costing: Standard costing is simply the name given to a technique whereby standard costs are computed and subsequently compared with the actual costs to find out the differences between the two. These differences are then analyzed to know the causes thereof so as to provide a basis of control. * Standard Costing: According to BROWN and HOWARD “Standard costing is a technique of cost accounting which compares the standard cost of each product or service
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progress. According to ACCA article‚ in back flush accounting costs are not associated with units until they are completed or sold. Back flush accounting is also called delayed costing‚ as costs are not allocated to production until after events have occurred. From view by other author‚ back flush accounting is a costing system that omits recording some of all of the journal entries relating to the cycle from purchase of direct materials to the sales of finished goods (Robert‚ 2011). According to
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Process Costing Vs. Job Order Costing Manufacturers use different types of costing systems to allocate production costs to their products and services. Two types of common product costing systems are process costing and job-order costing. While each system applies the same production costs to products‚ there are distinct variances in the application method. Process Costing o Process costing applies production costs to products based on the process they go through in the manufacturing process.
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Uniform Costing and Inter Firm Comparison UNIFORM COSTING Uniform Costing is not a distinct method of costing. In fact‚ when several undertakings start using the same costing principles and/or practices they are said to be following uniform costing. The basic idea behind uniform costing is that the different concerns in an industry should adopt a common method of costing and apply uniformly the same principles and techniques for better cost comparison and common good. The principles and methods
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has its own importance. Many costing techniques evolved in due course of time to ascertain the costs of above elements and to facilitate the control of the cost of the product. The main costing techniques that evolved include Absorption Cost Technique‚ Marginal Cost Technique and recently developed Activity Based Costing Technique. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the Absorption Cost Technique and Activity Based Costing Technique and to highlight their basic differences. With the help of
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