The usual method of fixing prices in a jobbing concern is cost plus pricing.

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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
• Cost plus pricing means that a desired profit margin is added to total costs to arrive at the selling price.
• In a costing system, a job account is similar to a work in progress account, except that it is for one job only. In a company that specialises in jobbing work, the work in progress account is the total of all the individual job accounts.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cost -plus- contract are undertaken for production of ……………….products.
• Which of the following cost is also known as overhead cost or on cost:
• 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.
• When overheads have been allocated and apportioned to production cost centres, they are charged to the cost of products manufactured in the cost centre.
• It is possible to add non-production overheads to the full production cost of units produced and sold (i.e. No cost will be carried forward to the next period in the form of closing stock), to obtain a full cost of sale.