VARIABLE COSTING VERSUS ABSORPTION COSTING
Absorption costing applies all manufacturing overhead to production costs while they flow through Work-in-Process Inventory, Finished-Goods Inventory and expenses on the income statement while Variable Costing only applies variable manufacturing overhead.
Fixed manufacturing overhead is expensed immediately as it is incurred under variable costing while it is inventoried until the accounting period during which the manufactured goods are sold under 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.
Absorption costing does not understand the importance of fixed costs. In absortption costing, fixed costs are absorbed to unit, therefore it is hard to distinguish between variable and fixed costs. And also, the variability of profit will cause confusion, the reason is that the net profit varies with both sales and stock changed under absorption costing. Absorption costing does not understand the importance of fixed costs. In absortption costing, fixed costs are absorbed to unit, therefore it is hard to distinguish between variable and fixed costs. And also, the variability of profit will cause confusion, the reason is that the net profit varies with both sales and stock changed under 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.
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.
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.
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.
Absorption costing does not understand the importance of fixed costs. In absortption costing, fixed costs are absorbed to unit, therefore it is hard to distinguish between variable and fixed costs. And also, the variability of profit will cause confusion, the reason is that the net profit varies with both sales and stock changed under absorption costing. Absorption costing does not understand the importance of fixed costs. In absortption costing, fixed costs are absorbed to unit, therefore it is hard to distinguish between variable and fixed costs. And also, the variability of profit will cause confusion, the reason is that the net profit varies with both sales and stock changed under 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.
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.
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.
there is have some differeance . 1.
difference between conventional costing methodology ang activity costing
Methods of Costing The cost of products or services is determined using several methods. The use of a given method is dictated by such factors as: the nature of cost units, the production process, the mode of cost accumulation, the duration of work etc. The following are the well established methods of costing a. Job / Batch costing b. Contract costing c. Process costing d. Service costing Techniques of Costing Irrespective of the type of costing method being applied there are various approaches that could be adopted. These are:  Full Absorption costing  Marginal costing  standard costing using  absorption costing  marginal costing
marginal costing considers only direct) materials,labour,expenses and variable factory overheads excluding fixed factory overheads but absorption considers (direct) materials ,labour,expenses,variable and fixed factory overheads.
Under absorption costing overheads are allocated to production based on predetermined overhead rates like machine hours, or direct labor hours etc while in direct costing overheads are allocated based on activity performed and relationship with production units.
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Standard costing will be the price for something. Mostly in every store. The target costing is when one says what one is willing to pay and they can negotiate the cost.