Question 2: Ahlia Products Company uses an automated process to clean and polish its souvenir items. For March, the company had the following activities: Beginning work in process inventory Units placed in production Ending work in process inventory 80 items, 40% complete 200 units 160 items, 75% complete Beginning work-in-process direct materials S1,000 Beginning work-in-process conversion Direct materials added during month Direct manufacturing labor during month Factory overhead during month S1,000 $1,200 $900 $140 Direct materials are placed into production at the Ending of the process and conversion costs are incurred evenly throughout the process. Instructions: Prepare a production cost worksheet using the FIFO method.
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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