33:010:272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Direct Labor Cost, Accounts Payable, Cost Accounting
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Cost of goods sold equation: beginning inventory + net purchases - ending inventory. An income statement format that organizes costs by their behavior. Costs are separated into variable and fixed categories rather than being separated into product and period costs for external reporting purposes. A cost accounting system in which the costs are collected by time period and averaged over all the units produced during the period. This system can be used with either actual or standard costs in the manufacture of a large number of identical units. i. e. job order costing charge direct material and direct labor cost to each job as work is performed. Cost of goods sold as it relates to the cost of goods manufactured. The decrease in accounts payable is equal to the increase in inventory during the period. A cost that is relevant to a particular decision because it is a future cost and differs among alternatives.