ACC 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Finished Good

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For manufacturing firms, unit costs are essential for valuing inventory, determining income and making important decisions. For service firms, unit costs are used to determine profitability and feasibility of introducing new services. Job-order costing: used by firms that produce a wide-variety of services or products that are quite distinct from each other, ex. Process costing: used by firms that produce identical products or services (cost of one unit is identical to the cost of another, ex. Actual costs: actual costs of direct materials, direct labour and overhead are used to determine unit cost (might be difficult because many overhead costs are not incurred uniformly thought the year) Normal costing: actual costs of direct materials, direct labour and estimated overhead are used to determine unit cost. Estimating overhead: calculate the predetermined overhead rate o. Estimated annual activity level: apply overhead to production, reconcile applied overhead with actual overhead or allocate applied overhead to wip and finished goods ending inventories.

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