Traditional Cost Accounting System: In this system company first produce the product and then determine the cost of production and then try to sell that product at price covering that cost plus certain percentage of markup on cost.
Target Costing: In this system first of all company determines the value of product in the eyes of customer that is how much a customer is willing to pay for the product and then if cost of production of that product is more then the customer willing to pay then company makes analysis of how they can reduce the cost of production to the level of cost a customer willing to pay by reducing the components of product which is costing towards final price but not giving any value to customer and in this way company tries to acheive the target cost customer willing to pay.
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.
In Target costing system, comapnies tries to achieve target prices by reducing those parts of activity which are not increasing the value of product. Life cycle costing is a concept in which companies tries to read the overall process of development of product life cycle and tries to minimise the cost at area where it is not required or not increase the value of product.
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.
Target Costing: It is the costing process in which company tries to reduces all costs of product to limit the selling price at specific targeted selling price. Cost Plus pricing: It is pricing method in which company uses all costs plus certain percentage of that cost as a profit margin to set selling price.
Activity based Costing, Target costing, Just in Time,Total Quality Management,
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.
In Target costing system, comapnies tries to achieve target prices by reducing those parts of activity which are not increasing the value of product. Life cycle costing is a concept in which companies tries to read the overall process of development of product life cycle and tries to minimise the cost at area where it is not required or not increase the value of product.
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.
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Target Costing: It is the costing process in which company tries to reduces all costs of product to limit the selling price at specific targeted selling price. Cost Plus pricing: It is pricing method in which company uses all costs plus certain percentage of that cost as a profit margin to set selling price.
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In target costing the costs is determined by finding out how much the customers are willing to pay for the service or product. The selling price is adjusted for the profit which determines the cost at which the product or service should be produced. When the target cost is less that the actual costs then decisions needs to be made to reduce the costs. For example the remove non value adding features to the product or service. Kaizen costing involves the continuous addition of small costs to the product or service until it meets its desired level for the customer. Target costing can said to be retrospective costing whilst kaizen is prospective costing.