What is marginal costing and direct costing?

Answer 1

Marginal costing is a technique of costing where the variable expenses are charged to a product. It ignores the fixed expenses incurred by the business in fixing the price of a product on the assumption that the fixed expenses are not incurred in producing an additional unit.They are treated as period costs& charged directly to P& L A/C.Marginal cost is the cost of producing an additional unit of product.It takes the direct expenses & the variable portion of the overhead expenditure. But Direct costing takes into account only the direct expenses like direct mterials, direct labour & direct expenditure for finding out the cost of a product.