A single overhead rate for assigning all of the manufacturing production and service department costs to products. This rate is less accurate than departmental rates if a company manufactures a diverse group of...
A single overhead rate for assigning all of the manufacturing production and service department costs to products. This rate is less accurate than departmental rates if a company manufactures a diverse group of...
What is a plant-wide overhead rate? Definition of Plant-wide Overhead Rate A plant-wide overhead rate is often a single rate per hour or a percentage of some cost that is used to allocate or assign a company’s...
What are departmental overhead rates? Definition of Departmental Overhead Rates Departmental overhead rates are used by many manufacturers to allocate (assign, apply) manufacturing overhead to the goods it produces...
What are the advantages of departmentalizing manufacturing overhead costs? The departmentalizing of manufacturing overhead costs allows for better planning and control if the head of each department is held responsible...
What is a predetermined overhead rate? Definition of Predetermined Overhead Rate A predetermined overhead rate is often an annual rate used to assign or allocate indirect manufacturing costs to the goods it produces....
Our Explanation of Manufacturing Overhead gives you examples of what is included in manufacturing overhead. You will learn that these are indirect product costs and therefore are allocated to the products in order to...
Rates based on a department’s direct and indirect overhead costs and some measure of the department’s activity, such as the department’s machine hours. Departmental rates are more accurate than...
Usually an annual manufacturing overhead rate established just prior to an accounting year and based on budgeted amounts.
Manufacturing Overhead For multiple-choice and true/false questions, simply press or click on what you think is the correct answer. For fill-in-the-blank questions, press or click on the blank space provided. If you have...
What is cost allocation? Definition of Cost Allocation Cost allocation is the assigning of a cost to several cost objects such as products or departments. The cost allocation is needed because the cost is not directly...
Our Explanation of Standard Costing uses an easy-to-relate to example for illustrating a manufacturer's standard costs and variances. Also provided is a chart which indicates each variance, what it tells you, and where...
What is a burden rate in inventory? I assume that the burden rate in inventory refers to a manufacturer’s indirect manufacturing costs, which are also referred to as factory overhead, indirect production costs, and...
What is meant by overabsorbed? Overabsorbed is usually used in the context of a manufacturer’s production overhead costs. Since manufacturing overhead costs are not directly traceable to products, they need to be...
What is the death spiral? Definition of Death Spiral In cost accounting and managerial accounting, the term death spiral refers to the repeated elimination of a manufacturer’s products which will result in spreading...
Often referred to as fixed assets. This would include long term assets such as buildings and equipment used by a company. Plant assets (other than land) will be depreciated over their useful lives.
A major classification on the balance sheet. It is the second long term asset section after current assets. Included are land, buildings, leasehold improvements, equipment, furniture, fixtures, delivery trucks,...
What is a plant asset? What is a Plant Asset A plant asset is an asset with a useful life of more than one year that is used in producing revenues in a business’s operations. Plant assets are also known as fixed...
Job Costing(Quick Test) Download PDF After you have answered all 30 questions, click "Grade This Quick Test" at the bottom of the page to view your grade and receive feedback on your answers. Note: Some of the following...
What do overabsorbed and underabsorbed mean? Definition of Overabsorbed and Underabsorbed In cost accounting, overabsorbed and underabsorbed pertain to a manufacturer’s manufacturing overhead costs. The manufacturing...
A variance arising in a standard costing system that indicates the difference between the standard amount of variable manufacturing overhead for the good units produced (standard hours times standard rate) and the...
What is the difference between actual overhead and applied overhead? Definition of Actual Overhead In the context of actual and applied overhead, actual overhead refers to a manufacturer’s indirect manufacturing costs....
Can a cost be both a direct cost and an indirect cost? A cost can be both a direct cost and an indirect cost. One of many examples is the cost of a supervisor in a department within a factory. Let’s assume that Sam...
Depreciation (Flashcards) Download Single-Sided PDF Download Double-Sided PDF All Cards (35) Marked Wrong (0) Marked Right (0) depreciation This is the systematic allocation of the cost of a building, equipment,...
Assigning manufacturing overhead costs to products being manufactured by using a manufacturing overhead rate.
Manufacturing overhead assigned to units of output. Often this is applied via a standard overhead rate. See the Explanation of Standard Costing.
Manufacturing Overhead (Flashcards) Download Single-Sided PDF Download Double-Sided PDF All Cards (23) Marked Wrong (0) Marked Right (0) manufacturing overhead (or) factory overhead (or) burden This term indicates a...
A variance arising in a standard costing system that indicates the difference between the standard amount of fixed manufacturing overhead for the good units produced (standard hours times standard rate) and the budgeted...
The actual cost of direct materials, the actual cost of direct labor, and manufacturing overhead applied by using a predetermined annual overhead rate.
Why use normal costing instead of actual costing? Definition of Normal Costing For a manufacturer, normal costing means assigning the following costs to the actual goods produced each month: Actual direct materials...
A factory or manufacturing overhead rate used to allocate, apply, assign, or spread indirect product costs to items manufactured. Under traditional cost accounting, the burden rate might be a percentage of direct labor...
What is the meaning of fixed overhead absorbed? Definition of Fixed Overhead Absorbed Fixed overhead absorbed refers to a manufacturer’s fixed indirect manufacturing/production costs. Since these costs are indirect,...
Standard Costing For multiple-choice and true/false questions, simply press or click on what you think is the correct answer. For fill-in-the-blank questions, press or click on the blank space provided. If you have...
Our Explanation of Activity Based Costing illustrates how manufacturing overhead costs for a product will differ when costs are allocated using only the number of machine hours, as opposed to being allocated using the...
Is there a relationship between direct materials variances and direct labor variances? Definition of Direct Materials Variances Direct materials variances (pertaining to standard costing) commonly consist of two...
How do you determine the fixed portion of overhead cost? I suggest that the first step in determining the fixed portion of a mixed cost (a cost that is partially fixed and partially variable) is to graph the data. Label...
What is the proper accounting for supplies? Definition of Supplies Office supplies are items used to carry out tasks in a company’s departments outside of manufacturing or shipping. Office supplies are likely to...
Can absorption costing cause an increase in net income? Definition of Absorption Costing Absorption costing is a cost accounting method (required by US GAAP) in which a manufacturer must assign fixed manufacturing...
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