In: Accounting
1. Here the Manufacturing Expenses plays a vital role as it remain unchanged while changed in production units. Hence, it is consider as fixed cost while evaluating performance of the company. Company’s Performance for 2 year is as under:
Particulars |
Amount in $ |
Sales (10,000,000 X $6) |
60,000,000 |
Less: |
|
Raw Material and Labour Cost (30,000,000 X $2) |
60,000,000 |
Manufacturing Expenses |
48,000,000 |
Add/Less: Stock Adjustment |
|
Add: Closing Stock of WIP [(20,000,000 X $2) + (48,000,000 X 20/40)] |
64,000,000 |
Less: Opening Stock of WIP |
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Gross margin |
16,000,000 |
Less: Selling and administrative expenses |
10,000,000 |
Operating income |
6,000,000 |
2. Operating Profit under operating Costing method:
Particulars |
Year-1 |
Year-2 |
Sales |
60,000,000 |
60,000,000 |
Less Variable Cost |
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Raw Material & labour |
20,000,000 |
20,000,000 |
Operating Profit |
40,000,000 |
40,000,000 |
3. Comparison of Absorption Costing and variable Costing
While comparing the operating profit calculated in point 2 with profit of Absorption costing method we can see that there is no increase in operating profit. In year 1 the company has absorbed al the Manufacturing expenses to the produced 10 million units against its installed capacity of 40 million units which leads the company in the operating loss for first year.