Kapol Company's normal capacity is 60,000 units. Since the past few months, it has utilized only one half of this capacity. For last month, the result of its operations is summarized in the following statement: Sales (30,000 units) P 1,500,000 Less Variable Costs 600,000 Contribution Margin 900,000 Less fixed costs 500,000 Profit P 400,000 Of the variable and fixed costs shown on the statement, ¾ are manufacturing costs; the balance represents selling and administrative costs. This month, a customer submitted a proposal to buy 35,000 units of Kapol Company's product at P25 per unit. The only selling cost to be incurred for this order is P4.00 per unit representing freight charges that will be shouldered by Kapol. If this special order proves to be acceptable, Kapol is willing to reduce sales to regular customers so as not to exceed its normal capacity.
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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