Manufacturing as third party

Hello Sir/Ma'am

our company is pharmaceutical manufacturing company. A company gave order to our company for manufacturing on behalf of them as a third party. Our co. purchased raw material itself. and they paid for it. then how can we account for it in our books.
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This discussion explains how to account for third-party manufacturing orders where your company purchases raw materials. It suggests tracking batch costing and adding a profit markup. Key ledger accounts like Debtors, Creditors, Inventory, Purchases, Sales, and overheads are identified. The process involves zeroing out entries for COGS, purchases, and inventory when the client pays, while still accounting for expenses and overheads to determine the Cost of Goods Manufactured (COGM) and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).

First identify what kind of costing is used during manufacturing process. For example, if you use absorption  costing, all overheads will be absorbed into the cost of unit. The disadvantage here is, if other batches and orders are manufactured perpendicularly, then the costing is not accurate as other products costs will be allocated to this product. So, keep track of batch costing and add a markup for profits. I believe you must be like a wholesaler distributing finished goods to retailers and hence profit margins vary as yours will be lower than the actual selling price.

Next, the ledger accounts needed for production and sales are:

Debtors

Creditors 

Inventory

Purchases

Sales

Fixed overheads

Variable overheads

When they have paid for it, COGS, the purchases, closing and opening inventory, direct material entries will be zero. The rest is the same, account for expenses and overhead costs. Eg

Add: Direct Materials Used

Add: Direct Labor Used

Add: Manufacturing Overhead

Add: Beginning Work in Process (WIP) Inventory

Deduct: Ending Work in Process (WIP) Inventory

= COGM

Add this to COGS along with depreciation. It should work out.

 

Thanks sir @ yasaswi gomes

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