Sohar Company manufactures 10,000 units of a spare part ALFA each year for use on its production line. At this level of activity, the cost per unit for part ALFA is as follows: Direct materials $ 2.40 Direct labor 3.50 Variable manufacturing overhead 1.60 Fixed manufacturing overhead 5.00 Total cost per part $12.50 An outside supplier has offered to sell 15,000 units of spare part ALFA each year to Sohar Company for $11.75 per part. If Sohar Company accepts this offer, the facilities now being used to manufacture ALFA could be rented to another company at an annual rental of $75,000. However, Sohar Company has determined that $3 of the fixed manufacturing overhead being applied to part ALFA would continue even if part ALFA were purchased from the outside supplier. Required: a) Prepare computations showing how much profits will increase or decrease if the outside supplier’s offer is accepted. b) Also mention which cost is opportunity cost and which cost is irrelevant cost
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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