product costing system implemented in the company – with the exception of the calculation of product costs imperative for external financial reporting purposes‚ prepared by your company’s accountant. In order to reduce cost pressures upon Sunflower Ltd‚ in the highly competitive flower sector‚ this report recommends the introduction of management accounting into the company‚ in particular the use of product costing systems. The purpose of this report is to identify an appropriate product costing system
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job costing Definition (according to business dictionary) An order-specific costing technique‚ used in situations where each job is different and is performed to the customer’s specifications. Job costing involves keeping an account of direct and indirect costs. Since both types of costs are usually closely related (a job requiring high input of labor and material is likely to consume more power‚ machine time‚ supervision time‚ inspection time‚ etc.) indirect costs may be applied as an estimated
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Product costing systems in modern manufacturing organisations Product costing refers to the process of assigning shared direct and indirect costs to individual products‚ customers‚ branches or other cost items. (USAID‚ 2007) Product costing is also referred to as assigning costs to inventory and production based on the expenses that go into producing or buying inventory. It is an important process for manufacturers that helps improves management information on products and helps managers and the
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Week 2 : Job Order and Process Costing Systems - Quiz ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Time Remaining: | | Page: 1 2 | 1. (TCO F) Computing unit product costs involves averaging in: | Job-Order Costing | Process Costing | A | Yes | No | | B | Yes | Yes | | C | No | Yes | | D | No | No | | (Points : 5) | Choice A. Choice B. Choice C. Choice D. | 2. (TCO F) Process costing would be appropriate
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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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METHODS OF COST ACCOUNTING INTRODUCTION The Meaning of Cost Cost is a measure of the sacrifice or forgoing of a scarce resource to achieve a specific objective. An organization sacrifices scarce resources‚ i.e. the purchase cost‚ in order to obtain other resources. A cost is usually measured in terms of money paid to acquire goods or services. One can observe that the term cost is rarely used without an adjective in front of it. The term ‘Cost’ has multiple meanings and different types of costs
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I. Discuss Process Costing‚ clearly bringing out its advantages and disadvantages. DEFINITION Costs are accumulated in costing systems. According to Glautier and Underdown (2001)‚ the development of costing systems reflects the manner in which accounting methods have been adapted to the needs of different forms of activity and technology‚ and also to the appearance of advanced manufacturing techniques that have been a feature of recent years. Cost accounting systems allow full product costs to
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Process Costing Characteristics of Process Manufacturing • Since each product within a product line passing through the processes would receive similar ‘‘doses’’ of materials‚ labor‚ and overhead‚ costs are accumulated by process. • Process costing works well whenever relatively homogeneous products pass through a series of processes and receive similar amounts of manufacturing costs Units are homogeneous and subjected to the same operations for a given process and each unit produced in a
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JOB COSTING JOB COSTING Cost object is a unit or multiple units of a distinct product or service called a job. Product or service is A single unit such as: 1.Specialised machine done at Hitachi. 2.A construction project managed by L & T. 3.Advertising campaign produced by Saatchi and Saatchi. Multiple identical unit such as: 1.Agni missile for Ministry of Defense manufactured by HAL. JOB COSTING SERVICE SECTOR JOB COSTING MERCHANDISING SECTOR - Audit engagements done - Special promotion of
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activity-based costing and the theory of constraints‚ as well as situations in which one approach might be preferable to the other. 5-48 Cycle time efficiency and JIT Walker Brothers Company is considering installing a JIT manufacturing system in the hope that it will improve its overall processing cycle efficiency. Data from the traditional system and estimates for the JIT system are presented here for their Nosun Product: TIME CATEGORY TRADITIONAL SYSTEM JIT SYSTEM Storage 4
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