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Throughput Cost Accounting Analysis : Decline Contract Take Contract Coaches Produced 40 34 Streetcars Produced 0 15 Foundry Hours 80 113 Metal shop Hours 160 159 Coach Revenue $14,000 $11,900 Streetcar Revenue $0 $4,200 Coach Raw Material Cost $(2,400) $(2,040) Streetcar Raw Material Cost $0 $(1,800) Throughput Value $11,600 $12,260
Job costing (known by some as job order costing) is fundamental to managerial accounting. It differs from Process costing in that the flow of costs is tracked by job or batch instead of by process. job cost is done for one single product The distinction between job costing and process costing hinges on the nature of the product and, therefore, on the type of production process:
An important part of standard cost accounting is a variance analysis, which breaks down the variation between actual cost and standard costs into various components (volume variation, material cost variation, labor cost variation, etc.) so managers can understand why costs were different from what was planned and take appropriate action to ...
An important part of standard cost accounting is a variance analysis, which breaks down the variation between actual cost and standard costs into various components (volume variation, material cost variation, labor cost variation, etc.) so managers can understand why costs were different from what was planned and take appropriate action to ...
Traditional standard costing (TSC), used in cost accounting, dates back to the 1920s and is a central method in management accounting practiced today because it is used for financial statement reporting for the valuation of income statement and balance sheet line items such as cost of goods sold (COGS) and inventory valuation.
Material flow accounts provide information on the material inputs into, the changes in material stock within, and the material outputs in the form of exports to other economies or discharges to the environment of an economy. Material flow accounting can be used in national planning, especially for scarce resources, and also allows for forecasting.
Recently, Mocciaro Li Destri, Picone & Minà (2012) [20] proposed a performance and cost measurement system that integrates the economic value added (EVA) criteria with process based costing (PBC). Authors note that activity-based costing system is introspective and focuses on a level of analysis which is too low.
Cost driver analysis Activity-based costing (ABC), which assigns a cost of each activity undertaken in the production and delivery of each product and service according to the actual consumption by each activity including a share of overheads .