In transport service, cost sheet depreciation cost are grouped under:

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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
• 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
• In service cost sheet costs are classified into :
• Allocation is where overheads are allocated to cost centres. If a cost centre is responsible for the entire cost of an item of expenditure, the entire cost is charged directly to the cost centre.
• Overhead is the cost incurred in the course of making a product, providing a service or running a department, but which cannot be traced directly and in full to the product, service or department.
• Per kilometer is an example of……………..cost unit used in transport undertakings.
• When the abnormal has a scrape value the net cost of abnormal loss (cost of abnormal loss minus its scrap value) is then transferred as a cost to the cost accounting income statement at the end of the accounting period.
• The items recorded on job cost sheet would include:
• 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.
• A situation may arise where both service departments do work for the other service department, as well as the production departments. The secondary apportionment is more complex. The process is called reciprocal apportionment