Difference between absorption costing and marginal costing calicut uviversity?

Answer 1

The difference between marginal and absorption costing is that when preparing a statement based on marginal costing, you would subtract all variable costs, production or otherwise, from the sales revenue, to give the contribution, from which you subtract all fixed costs (production and non-production) to give profit made.

Using absorption costing however, you subtract production costs (this will include both variable and fixed production costs) only from sales to give you the gross profit, from which you then subtract all non-production costs (fixed or variable) to give net profit.

The final profit using both methods is always the same.