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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Article 32 TARGET COSTING FOR NEW-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: PRODUCTLEVEL TARGET COSTING Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder Editors’ Note: This article is an updated synthesis of in-depth explorations contained in Target Costing and Value Engineering‚ by Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder (Portland‚ Oregon: Productivity Press‚ 1997). Part two of the series discusses product-level target costing; part three‚ to be featured in an upcoming issue‚ will address component-level target costing. tomers. Consequently
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Kaizen Costing What is Kaizen costing? Kaizen is a Japanese term that means continuous improvement. Kaizen events can be defined as making improvements through a process that emphasize small incremental amounts rather than large or radical improvement. Therefore in order to achieve this kaizen costing not include only continuous cost reduction but also continuous improvement of performance by increase the efficiency throughout the process. Why we need Kaizen costing? Market prices of a product
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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 are used in different situations. Therefore a preceding term must be added to clarify the assumptions
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they do not make a difference between those costs that are fixed‚ and those that are variable. As a result‚ management became obligated to rely on the alternative variable costing method which provides better information for managerial accounting purposes. Although it is not allowed for external reporting‚ the variable costing method is preferred by managers because it generates great tools for internal decision making purposes CITATION Nat76 \l 1033 (Accountants‚ 1976). Introduction Accounting
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only the direct labor hours incurred in the finishing department are used. Req. 3 Overhead allocation based on single‚ plantwide rate: Cost allocation base (actual) × Plantwide cost allocation rate Overhead allocation Job 450 5 DL hours Job 455 5 DL hours × $46/ DL hour $ 230 × $46 / DL hour $ 230 Req. 4 Overhead allocation based on departmental rates: Job 450 Machining Department: Departmental allocation rate × Machine hours used by Job Overhead allocation ×
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BACKFLUSH COSTING Definition of Backflush Costing : A streamlined cost accounting method that speeds up‚ simplifies‚ and reduces accounting effort in an environment that minimizes inventory balances‚ requires few allocations‚ uses standard costs‚ and has minimal variances from standard Product costing approach‚ used in a just - intime (jit) operating environment‚ in which costing is delayed until goods are finished. Standard costs are then flushed backward through the system to assign
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TERM PAPER STANDARD COSTING MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING & CONTROL SYSTEM Srinidhi Rangarajan 1PB11MBA34 3rd SEM M.B.A PESIT ABSTRACT In recent years‚ numerous tools such as activity-based costing‚ the balanced score card and target costing have gained prominence in the business community. Nonetheless‚ traditional management accounting continues to be prevalent in practice. One example is standard costing‚ which has been used on a wide front during
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Uniform Costing and Inter Firm Comparison UNIFORM COSTING Uniform Costing is not a distinct method of costing. In fact‚ when several undertakings start using the same costing principles and/or practices they are said to be following uniform costing. The basic idea behind uniform costing is that the different concerns in an industry should adopt a common method of costing and apply uniformly the same principles and techniques for better cost comparison and common good. The principles and methods
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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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