Absorption costing

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SUNNY

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28 July 2011 wht is the difference between marginal and absorption costing??

CMA Ramesh Krishnan

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28 July 2011 allocating all manufacturing costs to products regardless of whether they are fixed or variable. This approach is known as absorption costing/full costing

However, only variable costs are relevant to decision-making. This is known as marginal costing/variable costing

Absorption costing is costing system which treats all manufacturing costs including both the fixed and variable costs as product costs

Marginal Costing is a costing system which treats only the variable manufacturing costs as product costs. The fixed manufacturing overheads are regarded as period cost

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29 July 2011 ithanks sir

but one more question????
i read some where that in marginal costing cost sheet variance all are apllied in the starting or end of period but in absorption costing we can calculated even in middle months or on management discrection..,but in marginal costing we can calculate at the end or start of year...why this is soo???

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29 July 2011 Both the methods are can follow any of the time, only Marginal costing we need to have data of Variable cost and fixed cost

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