Cost of defective materials should be……………………to costing P/L account and……………….to contract account.

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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
• 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.
• 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.
• A job costing system is usually based on absorption costing principles, and in addition a cost is included for non-production overheads.
• 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.
• In some cases, a company might have to pay to dispose of losses in a process. The cost of disposal represents an additional cost to the process. To reflect this in the process account the normal loss is measured at zero but the expected costs of disposal are debited to the process account.
• In Job costing a cost is calculated for each individual job, and this cost can be used to establish the profit or loss from doing the job.
• Process costing provides a system of costing where the following characteristics occur. Identify which of the following are correct:
• Job costing is a costing method applied where work is undertaken to customers’ special requirements and each order is of comparatively short duration.
• Batch costing is similar to job costing in that each batch of similar articles is separately identifiable.