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What is Absorption Costing and how is it different from Variable Costing?

Absorption Costing (also known as traditional costing approach or full costing) absorbs all costs incurred to produce goods, which can result in misleading product cost information for decision-making. In absorption costing, fixed overheads are considered as product cost. These are added in the cost of inventory and not shown as separate item (period cost) in the income statement. The full cost includes cost of direct materials, direct labor, variable manufacturing overheads and fixed overheads. The absorption costing focuses only on total cost viz. variable and fixed and it is not useful for managers to take decision, plan about future and exercise control. The cost volume profit relationship is ignored because it takes into account the total cost. Absorption costing is suitable only in those companies where equal number of units are produced and sold. However, a business operates in a dynamic environment and production and sales keep on fluctuating on a regular basis. Therefore, as absorption costing is used in such a scenario, the cost will keep on fluctuating...


How interest on capital treated in cost accounting?

it should be ignored


An unrecorded credit memo for collection of a note should be?

added to bank balance


What types of problems may occur when new requests are made with diary system?

It can become difficult to keep up with demand. It is important that technology can keep up with the requests or that they are ignored to keep the dairy products in good working order.


How do sunk costs affect the determination of cash flows?

When evaluating a capital budgeting proposal, sunk costs are ignored. We are interested in only the incremental after-tax cash flows, or free cash flows, to the company as a whole. Regardless of the decision made on the investment at hand, the sunk costs will have already occurred, which means these are not incremental cash flows. Hence, they are irrelevant.

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Which step in the formal planning process is sometimes ignored?

implementation


What is Absorption Costing and how is it different from Variable Costing?

Absorption Costing (also known as traditional costing approach or full costing) absorbs all costs incurred to produce goods, which can result in misleading product cost information for decision-making. In absorption costing, fixed overheads are considered as product cost. These are added in the cost of inventory and not shown as separate item (period cost) in the income statement. The full cost includes cost of direct materials, direct labor, variable manufacturing overheads and fixed overheads. The absorption costing focuses only on total cost viz. variable and fixed and it is not useful for managers to take decision, plan about future and exercise control. The cost volume profit relationship is ignored because it takes into account the total cost. Absorption costing is suitable only in those companies where equal number of units are produced and sold. However, a business operates in a dynamic environment and production and sales keep on fluctuating on a regular basis. Therefore, as absorption costing is used in such a scenario, the cost will keep on fluctuating...


What is the relationship between pharaohs and peasants?

he was very cruel to them sometimes. Mostly he ignored them except when he kidnapped the and raped them.


What is forgotten?

The term fogotten holocaust is sometimes applied to any genocide that the writer or speakers believes is ignored.


Old immigrants were sometimes called invisible immigrants because Americans ignored them true or false?

true


What did Queen Elizabeth do with Shakespeare's plays?

Sometimes she watched them (the Chamberlain's Men were sometimes called upon to present plays at court.). Mostly she ignored them. She was not Shakespeare's patron or the patron of the theatrical company he belonged to.


Why were Spain's kings laws sometimes ignored?

BECAUS THE Spain had lots of money didnt want to share slaves and they didnt really care


Who are y ou?

I am a girl. Just an ordinary girl. Sometimes I'm crazy, sometimes I'm bored, I have feelings, y'know? I feel scared and and I feel ignored. But, that's life, you know? And sometimes, just sometimes, I have a gay sexy party and invite all my friends! But that is the life of an avrage girl.


Why do you feel like dying?

ummm it depends on what you mean. sometimes people feel like theyre being ignored or misterated. that might be it. Life is great.


What did Michael Jackson do when the media started rumors about him?

Wait until he gave a televised interview, such as the 1993 Oprah one to address the rumours, sometimes issue a statement through his PR people and sometimes he wouldn't do anything and ignored it.


Can you use Ignored and ignored in a sentence?

Yes. Examples: Ignored and depressed, the ragged man ignored the harsh insults thrown at him and silently made his way home to a desolate and cold house. Ignored clowns often ignored the fact that everyone was deathly afraid of them and carried on in their repulsively cheap and annoying act.


How do you unignore gifts on FarmVille?

There is no way, once they are ignored they are ignored.