Morry Games developed a new play station called AWESOME. Morry Games has a standard cost system to help control its costs. The following standards have been established for AWESOME. • Direct materials 15 grams per AWESOME. • Standard direct material cost per AWESOME is $10. • Direct labour 1.2 hours per AWESOME. • Standard cost of direct labour is $14.40 per AWESOME. • During May the company produced 9,000 AWESOME units. Production data for May are: • Direct materials: 165,000 grams were purchased at a cost of $104,000; 20,000 grams of this was still in inventory at the end of the month. • Direct labour: 11,400 direct labour hours were worked at a cost of $142,500. Required: (a) Calculate Direct materials price and quantity variances. (b) Calculate Direct labour price and quantity variances.
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.
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