In: Accounting
what are transferred in costs?
when do they occur?
Transferred-in costs ,as is self-explanatory, are costs of the semi-finished units that are tranferred in from the previous process/department , for further processing , until fully completed and transferred as finished units , ready for sale. |
They accumulate or aggregate costs all along the way, in different processes.The entire type of accounting is called process costing ---wherein,the processes are sequential and the units gather costs as they pass from one process/department to another where further processing has to be done. |
Transferred-in costs occur where mass production of identical items of output are manufactured --for example, packing,covering & labelling of a certain food item where the aforesaid processes are done sequentially and large numbers of packets are produced as the finished product for sale. |
They occur because they pass through various processes, before becoming a saleable item & hence pick up costs in the process , such as costs of raw materials, labor & other overheads. |
Here, the finished product of one process is the raw material for the next process--- where some other raw material may or may not be added--amongst other costs such as labor & overheads. |