Describe the Procedure for Setting a Bid Price and Explain

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Essay

Describe the procedure for setting a bid price and explain the manager's objective in setting this
bid price. How is that two different firms often arrive at different values for the bid price?

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Definitions:

Absorption Costing

A technique in accounting that rolls all manufacturing expenses including direct material costs, direct labor, and every overhead, regardless if fixed or variable, into the overall cost of a product.

Unit Product Cost

The overall expense involved in creating one unit of a product, encompassing direct materials, direct labor, and distributed overhead costs.

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that includes all manufacturing costs (both variable and fixed) in the cost of a product.

Variable Costing

An accounting method that includes only variable costs in product cost calculations and treats fixed costs as period costs.