Managerial Accounting
Let’s think about a company that produces dinner
ware (plates, bowls, cups and saucers, for example). Some of the dinner
ware is intended for daily use (stoneware that is dishwasher and
microwave safe), and other dinner ware is for special occasion (fine
china or bone china, with gold trim that cannot go in the microwave!)
Daily use dinnerware is less expensive than special occasion dinnerware.
Imagine that there is consistent demand year-round for the “daily use”
dinnerware, but there are seasonal spikes in demand for the “special
occasion” dinnerware (i.e. wedding season and the holiday season).
Additionally, gold is an important component of special use dinner ware,
yet the price of gold varies.
Explain how fixed manufacturing overhead costs are shifted from one period to another under absorption costing.
What arguments are there in favor of treating fixed manufacturing overhead costs as product costs? As period costs?
Under absorption costing, how is it possible to increase net operating income without increasing sales? Explain.
Explain how fixed manufacturing overhead costs are shifted from one period to another under absorption costing.
What arguments are there in favor of treating fixed manufacturing overhead costs as product costs? As period costs?
Under absorption costing, how is it possible to increase net operating income without increasing sales? Explain.
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