Since a by-product does not have any substantial value, there is no sense in charging it with a share of the common processing costs.

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• Which of the following procedure is incorrect for attributing overhead costs to cost units? I. Collecting production overhead costs by item II. Establishing cost centres III. Allocating and apportioning overhead costs to cost centres IV. Apportioning service cost centre costs to production cost centres V. Absorbing production cost centre costs into cost units
• The relative sales value method is the most widely used method of apportioning joint costs because (ignoring the effect of further processing costs) it assumes that all products achieve the same profit margin.
• When there is opening work in progress there are two types of cost on the debit side of the account. These are the costs that were incurred last period and brought forward as work in progress and the costs that were incurred in the current period.
• Indirect production costs are incurred in three main ways: • Production activities: costs arising in production departments such as fuel, depreciation, supervision • Service activities: the cost of operating non-producing departments such as materials handling, canteen • Establishment costs: general production overheads such as factory rent/rates, heating and lighting
• Apportionment means sharing on a reasonable basis. Many overhead costs are costs that cannot be allocated directly to one cost centre, because they are shared by two or more cost centres. These costs are apportioned between the cost centres.
• The apportionment of production overhead costs might be in two stages: • sharing (or dividing) general costs between production centres and service centres; and • then sharing the costs of the service centres between the production centres.
• . Production Overheads are costs related to the production process other than direct labour and materials. They are also known as factory overheads since they are incurred inside the factory, other overheads such as selling and administrative overheads are always charged to in the period in which they are incurred
• If normal loss has a scrap value the company is able to recover some of the input costs to the process. The scrap value reduces the cost of the process.
• Overhead absorption is the process whereby overhead costs allocated and apportioned to production cost centres are added to unit, job or batch costs.
• Are the costs of opening WIP, incurred in last period and brought forward as work in progress and the costs that were incurred in the current period, treated the same way?