Absorption costing is a methodology that seeks to account for all relevant costs into a finished good or product. This would include overheads as well as direct material or labor costs. This is usually not a accounting method used for sales or marketing but rather to gauge the actual costs of production and the cost of idling plant and machinery.
full absorption costing
Target costing is when you have a goal for the project and its costs. Absorption costing is when you need to fix the excess spending.
Full costing system
marginal costing is recommended by IAS and absorption costing is not recommended by IAS,marginal costing is used for internal purposes and absorption costing is ysed for external purposes,in marginal costing the fixed production overheads are not calculated as a product cost and in absorption costing the fixed prodution overheads are calculated as product cost.
It is old costing technique & it is replaced by activity based costing
to calculate the profit easilly
absorption costing
An activity-based absorption costing system defines the cost by how many activities a product unit uses. A traditional absorption costing system defines the cost by how much money went into making the product unit.
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An absorption costing is an accounting method used to calculate the total cost of a product by factoring in both direct and indirect costs.
there is have some differeance . 1.
Absorption costing income statement is that statement in which overheads are charged to units of products based on predetermined blanket rate.