What is Costsheet? Form prepared for each job or department.
It serves as a means of accumulating the manufacturing costs-
direct materials, direct labor, and overhead costs-chargeable to the job or department and as a means of determining unit costs
Cost sheets may serve as a subsidiary ledger supporting a Work-
in-Process Control. Advantages:
Shows the cost of total output.
Shows the cost of cost per unit.
Contd.
Shows the break up of the total cost.
It helps in the preparation estimate for
tenders. Contd.
It helps to fix Selling Price.
It figures to maintain close control over the
cost of production. Classification of costs
Product costs: The costs of manufacturing our
products.
Period costs:These are the costs other than
product costs that are charged to, debited to, or written off to the income statement each period. Cont..
Direct costs: Direct costs are generally seen
to be variable costs and they are called direct costs because they are directly associated with manufacturing. In turn, the direct costs can include: Contd.
Direct materials: plywood, wooden battens,
fabric for the seat and the back, screws.
Direct labour: drillers, assemblers, painters,
polishers. Cont..
Indirect Costs: Indirect costs are those
costs that are incurred in the factory but that cannot be directly associate with manufacture. Contd.
Indirect labour: Labour costs of people
who are only indirectly associated with manufacture: management of a department or area, supervisors, cleaners, maintenance and repair technicians . Contd.
Indirect expenses: Essentially, if a cost is a
factory cost and it has not been included in any of the other sections, it has to be an indirect expense. What is factory cost?
Total cost of making a product at the
production location, and comprising of raw material , labor , and overhead costs. Contd.
Total factory cost is equal to total direct
materials cost plus direct labor cost plus Factory overhead. What is prime cost?
In manufacturing, Direct Material plus Direct
Labor. It excludes overhead.
Formulaof prime cost can be written as:
Prime cost = Direct materials + Direct labor What is cost of production?
Production cost is combined costs of raw
material and labor incurred in producing goods cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor. What is cost of sales?
Infinancial accounting, cost of goods sold
(COGS) includes the direct costs attributable to the production of the goods sold by a company. Contd.
This amount includes the materials cost used
in creating the goods along with the direct labor costs used to produce the good. Contd.
Itexcludes indirect expenses such as
distribution costs and sales force costs. COGS appears on the income statement and can be deducted from revenue to calculate a company's gross margin. What is Administration cost?
Literally the costs of running the administrative
aspects of an organisation. Administration costs will include : salaries, rent, Council Tax, electricity, water, telephone, depreciation, a potentially infinitely long list. What is finance cost?
Finance costs are those costs associated with
providing the permanent, long term and short term finance. Contd.
Thatis, within the section headed finance
costs we will find dividends, interest on long term loans and interest on short term loans. THANK YOU: KUSHAN MACHHAR