Manufacturing
Actual or Normal Costing:
applies overhead through a predefined overhead rate.
Normal Costing
Accumulated Costs are assigned to units of products manufactured or services delivered
Cost Assignment
(V.MOH + F. MOH) / Activity Level
Predetermined Overhead Rate
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Job Order Cost sheet
The accounting system satisfies the need for cost accumulation, cost measurement, and cost assignment.
Cost Accounting System
Normal or Expected Activity Level:
The average activity usage that a firm experiences in the long term.
Normal Activity Level
The production level that a firm expects to attain for the coming period
Expected Activity Level
Total Manufacturing Cost / # of Units Produced
Unit Cost
This cost is debited to the overhead control account
Actual Overhead expenses
Uses actual costs for direct materials direct labor and overhead to determine unit cost
Actual Costing
Debit or Credit:
To close the overhead variance account for under-applied overhead, do you debit or credit the account
Credit
Absolute maximum production activity of a manufacturing firm
TMC / # of Units
Total Manufacturing Cost
The method utilized to assign costs to products or services
Cost Measurement
Uses actual costing , plus applies overhead using a predetermined rate to determine unit costs
Normal Costing
Normal Spoilage or Abnormal Spoilage:
Arises from the nature of the production process
Normal Spoilage
Follows costs from the point at which they are incurred to the point at which they are recognized as an expense on the income statement.
Cost Flow
Compute the predetermined overhead rate for a firm that has estimated overhead costs for the coming year at $900,000 and expected activity is 90,000 DLH
10 per DLH
900,000 / 90,000
Immaterial under or applied overhead is closed to this account
COGS