January: $280,000 – $160,000 = ($400 × 300) – $0 $120,000 = $120,000 February: $260,000 –$260,000 = ($400 × 300) – ($400 × 300) $0 = $0 March: $860,000 – $960,000 = ($400 × 50) – ($400 × 300) – $100,000 = – $100,000
Charles T. Horngren Srikant M. Datar George Foster Madhav Rajan Christopher Ittner
Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis thirteenth edition
This presentation includes: Exercises 9-16, 9-18, 9-21
Variable and absorption costing, explaining operating-income differences Nascar Motors assembles and sells motor vehicles and uses standard costing. Actual data relating to April and May 2008 are:
The difference between absorption and variable costing is due solely to moving fixed manufacturing costs into inventories as inventories increase (as in January) and out of inventories as they decrease (as in March).