Full Costs and Their Uses GROUP2
Full Costs and Their Uses GROUP2
Full Costs and Their Uses GROUP2
THEIR USES
CASE:
LIPMAN BOTTLE
COMPANY
OUTLINE
COST CONCEPTS
PRODUCT COSTING SYTEMS
USES OF FULL COSTS
CASE: LIPMAN BOTTLE CO.
COST IS A MEASUREMENT, IN
MONETARY TERMS, OF THE AMOUNT OF
RESOURCES USED FOR SOME PURPOSE
IMPORTANT IDEAS
Cost measures the use of resources.
Cost measurements are expressed in monetary
terms.
Cost measurement always relates to a purpose.
COST OBJECT
The technical name for the product, project, organizational unit,
or other activity or purpose for which costs are measure.
FULL COST
All the resources used for a cost object.
The full cost of a cost object is the sum of its direct costs plus a
fair share of applicable indirect costs.
ITEMS OF COST
Direct Cost
The direct costs of a cost object are items of costs that are
specifically traced to,or caused by, that cost object.
Indirect Cost
ELEMENTS OF PRODUCT
COST
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Direct Labor Cost - The labor quantities that can be specifically
identified with a cost object in an economically feasible manner,
priced at a unit price of direct labor
Overhead cost - All indirect production costsall production
costs other than direct costs
Direct material cost - The quantities of material that can be
specifically identified with a cost object in an economically feasible
manner, priced at the unit price of direct material
Conversion cost - The sum of direct labor cost and overhead
cost
Full production cost - The sum of direct material cost and
conversion cost
Nonproduction costs - also called period costs all costs incurred
in an organization other than inventory costs eg. Selling, general
and administrative cost.
Full Cost - product is simply the sum of all the cost elements
PRODUCT COSTING
SYSTEMS
The system that accumulates and reports costs of product cost
objects.
ACCOUNT FLOWCHART
- helpful in understanding the flow of costs through a cost
accounting system
ACQUISITION
PRODUCTION
SALE
ANALYSIS OF PROFITABILITY
ANSWERING THE QUESTION WHAT DID IT COST?
SETTING REGULATED PRICES
PRODUCT PRICING
NORMAL PRICING
TIME AND MATERIAL PRICING
CONTRIBUTION PRICING