Required: Compute for the following: 1. actual material used 3. Labor rate variance
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.
Mandy Co. adopted a
prime costs of its single product follow:
Material: 10 kg @ P4.50/kg P45.00
Labor: 6 hours @ P8.50/hr P51.00
The following operating data were taken from the records for November:
Units completed 5,800 units
Budgeted output 6,000 units
Materials purchased 60,000 kg
Total actual labor costs P306,600
Actual hours of labor 36,500 hours
Material usage variance P2,250 unfavorable
Total material variance P450 unfavorable
Required: Compute for the following:
1. actual material used 3. Labor rate variance
2. actual cost paid per kilogram 4. Labor efficiency variance
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