Arowana Company assembles products in its Assembly Department. At the beginning of October, the department had 20,000 units that were 60% complete. The costs associated with this inventory included direct materials cost of $150,000 and $200,000 for conversion costs. The department started 50,000 new units during the month. At the end of the month, the department transferred out 55,000 good units and had 8,000 good units remaining that were not completed. Costs incurred during the month were $400,000 for direct materials and $1,200,000 for conversion costs. The units that were not completed at the end of the month were at the 30% stage of completion. Direct materials and conversion costs are added evenly throughout the process. Normal spoilage, if any, is expected to be a maximum of 10% of the total units in the work in process during a month. All other spoilage is considered to be abnormal. All spoilage is detected at the 80% stage of completion. REQUIRED: Using the attached forms, prepare a cost of production report for Arowana Company for the month of October, using the FIFO cost flow assumption. Round all costs per equivalent unit to five decimal places and all other dollar amounts to the nearest whole dollar.
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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