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Cost accounting

An area of accounting that involves measuring, recording, and reporting product and service costs.

Cost accounting system

Manufacturing and service cost accounts that are fully integrated into the general ledger of a company.

Job cost sheet

A document used to record the costs chargeable to a specific job and to determine the total and unit costs of the completed job.

Process costing

A cost accounting system used when a company company manufactures a large volume of similar products. 

A cost accounting system used when a company company manufactures a large volume of similar products.



Job order cost system

A cost accounting system in which costs are assigned to each job or batch.


Can a company use both job order and processes costing?

Yes.

What are the two major steps in the flow of costs?

1. Accumulating the manufacturing costs


2. Assigning the accumulated costs.





Flow of costs

Direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead

Flow of costs in job order cost accounting parallels the physical flow of the materials as they are converted into finished goods and sold



Period costs

All non-manufacturing costs

Product cost

All manufacturing costs

Job cost sheet

A job cost sheet is a document used to record the costs chargeable to a specific job and to determine the total and unit costs of the completed job.

What constitute the subsidiary ledger for the Work-in-Process inventory?

Job cost sheets

Subsidiary ledger

A subsidiary ledger consists of individual records for each individual item.

Control account

The account that summarizes detailed data of its corresponding subsidiary ledger.

Material requisition slip

A document authorizing the issuance of raw materials from the storeroom to production

How do companies assign factory labor costs to jobs?

Companies assign factory labor costs to jobs on the basis of time tickets prepared when the work is performed.

Time ticket

A document that indicates the employee, the hours worked, the account and the job to be charged, and the total labor cost.

Predetermined overhead rate

Manufacturing overhead cannot be directly assigned to a specific job or process. So companies assign manufacturing overhead to work in process and to specific jobs on an estimated basis called the predetermined overhead rate.

Formula for predetermined overhead rate

Estimated Annual Overhead Costs ÷ Estimated annual operating activity = Predetermined overhead rate

Finished good is a control account

It controls individual finished goods records in a finished goods subsidiary ledger

When is the cost transferred from Finished Goods Inventory to Cost of Goods Sold?

Companies recognize cost of goods sold when each sale occurs.





What is the Work-in-Process equivalent for service a service company?

Service Contracts in Process

When is Manufacturing Overhead have a debit or credit balance?

- Manufacturing overhead has a debit balance when overhead is under-applied




- Manufacturing overhead has a credit balance when its over-applied.




(Manufacturing Overhead is an expense account)

Where are the adjusting entries of over-or under-applied overhead made to?

Cost of Goods Sold and Manufacturing Overhead accounts