assigning manufacturing overhead costs for each activity cost pool to products
needs of product costing system
Full costing system
responsibility costing is a costing which enable us to know which department is responsible for what
A job order costing system would be more appropriate than a process costing system for manufacturers who use different types of goods throughout the manufacturing process. Process costing is best to you when manufacturing a large amount of the same items.
to undersrand
needs of product costing system
Full costing system
full absorption costing
responsibility costing is a costing which enable us to know which department is responsible for what
features of standard costing
Job order costing is more appropriate than process costing when the product being produced is a custom product
A job order costing system would be more appropriate than a process costing system for manufacturers who use different types of goods throughout the manufacturing process. Process costing is best to you when manufacturing a large amount of the same items.
to undersrand
process costin and target 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.
Over costing and under costing occurs because overhead cost is applied first using some ratio to find out the cost of product before the process of production done and actual cost found.
An Activity Based costing always starts with defining your objective. why do you want to implement this system? This definition is very important. Then the scope of the project and then the phases. The typical onjectives of the ABC system would fall under one the following three; 1) Understand Product, customer profitability 2) Understand the process costs and the cost drivers for them 3) Planning resource