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If the company is in its first year of operations, what costs should be taken as reference for the establishment of standard costs?
Answer : - Whenever you have set goals that you have sought to achieve, these goals could have been called standards. Periodically, you might measure your actual performance against these standards and analyze the differences to see how close you are to your goal. Similarly, management sets goals, such as standard costs, and compares actual costs with these goals to identify possible problems.
This section begins with a discussion of the nature of standard costs.
Manufacturing companies determine the standard cost of each unit of product by establishing the standard cost of direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead necessary to produce that unit. Determining the standard cost of direct materials and direct labor is less complicated than determining the standard cost of manufacturing overhead.
Following costs should be taken as reference for the establishment of standard costs:-
1. Material Cost
2. Material Usage/ consumption
3. labour cost
4. Wages, Salaries, Payroll Taxes, and Benefits
5.Advertising and Marketing Costs
6. Fixed Overhead expenditure
7. Variable Overhead expenditure