2-b. Prepare an operating income statement for the year using variable costing.
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
Great Outdoze Company manufactures sleeping bags, which sell for $66.30 each. The variable costs of production are as follows:
| Direct material | $ | 19.20 | |
| Direct labor | 10.50 | ||
| Variable manufacturing |
8.10 | ||
Budgeted fixed overhead in 20x1 was $140,700 and budgeted production was 21,000 sleeping bags. The year’s actual production was 21,000 units, of which 17,700 were sold. Variable selling and administrative costs were $1.40 per unit sold; fixed selling and administrative costs were $29,000.
Required:
1. Calculate the product cost per sleeping bag under (a) absorption costing and (b) variable costing.
2-a. Prepare an operating income statement for the year using absorption costing.
2-b. Prepare an operating income statement for the year using variable costing.
3. Reconcile reported operating income under the two methods using the shortcut method.
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