Management Cost Accounting
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There are many ways to categorize a cost. In basic produc-
tion, when we look at a cost’s nature, we try to fit it in terms of
the following:
• materials—direct and indirect
• labor—direct and indirect
• overhead—all the costs other than direct materials and
direct labor
Trends in the manufacturing sector suggest that many costs
once considered variable or overhead have become committed
fixed or semivariable costs because of automation and labor
union contract provisions. Service businesses also see this hap-
pening with salaries in particular.
Overhead costs can be further broken down into factory
overhead, manufacturing overhead, administrative overhead,
selling overhead, etc. How managers classify and treat these
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