Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
118 Accounting for Overhead Managers can find classifying overhead costs challenging. As explained earlier in this chapter, overhead costs are the costs of doing business other than direct materials and direct labor—all those indirect costs that cannot be traced to a single cost object. Costs associated with the personnel or accounting departments, the lubricants and janitorial supplies used in production, the building depreciation—all these costs gather into overhead. Under most cost accounting systems, the first way to divide overhead costs is to split them out among production, selling, and administrative cost centers. Cost allocation is the process of assigning indirect costs to multiple cost centers or cost objects, through cost apportionment. Those cost objects can include products. For examples, all the indirect costs associated with production—the aforemen- tioned lubricants and jani- torial supplies, the janitors and the salaries of the first- and second-level supervi- sors—could be part of the production overhead. If the business is fairly small, there may be a sin- gle overhead cost with an associated cost multiplier for planning purposes. Larger organizations will have overheads for func- tions like selling and administrative. You can slice and dice these costs with broad discretion. Depending on the organiza- tion’s control/compensation system, the overhead allocation process could involve intense negotiations. If managers are held closely to their budgeted overhead allocation figures, they many want a large figure that gives them plenty of room. If they have to use some of their overhead to pay for services from another Cost allocation The process by which identifi- able cost items, direct or indirect, are charged to cost centers or cost objects. Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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