Jorgansen Lighting, Incorporated, manufactures heavy-duty street lighting systems for municipalities. The company uses variable costing for internal management reports and absorption costing for external reports sharesholders, creditors, and the government. The company has provided the following data below 1. Calculate each year's absorption costing net operating income 2. Assume in Year 4 that the companys variable costing net operating income was $250,000 and its absorption costing net operating income was $280,000 2a. Did inventories increase or decrease during Year 4 2b. How much fixed manufacturing overhead cost was deferred or released from inventory during Year 4
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.
![Jorgansen Lighting, Incorporated, manufactures heavy-duty street lighting systems for municipalities. The
company uses variable costing for internal management reports and absorption costing for external reports to
sharesholders, creditors, and the government. The company has provided the following data below
1. Calculate each year's absorption costing net operating income
2. Assume in Year 4 that the companys variable costing net operating income was $250,000 and its
absorption costing net operating income was $280,000
2a. Did inventories increase or decrease during Year 4
2b. How much fixed manufacturing overhead cost was deferred or released from inventory during Year 4
Inventories
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
150
Beginning (units)
Ending (units)
210
150
180
Variable costing net operating income
$ 300,000
$ 279,000
The company's fixed manufacturing overhead per unit was constant at $560 for all three years.
180
220
$ 260,000](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fb2a441ff-e32e-4905-9df7-ff9d814c47e6%2F692789b4-7972-47a9-874c-de0e4f0d9703%2F7umpqpf_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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