Managerial Accounting
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780077826482
Author: Stacey M Whitecotton Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Fred Phillips Associate Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 6.2GBP
To determine
Absorption costing:
It is a costing in which the company includes all the cost including the fixed costing in order to determine the cost of a product. It is the costing method that a company is required to use for calculating and filing its taxes.
Variable costing:
It is the costing which includes all type of variable cost. It is an accounting method used to allocate production to its cost and it is done during the period.
To prepare:
The Variable Costing Income Statement
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