If a Company Records Inventory Purchases at Standard Cost and Also

question 64

Essay

If a company records inventory purchases at standard cost and also records purchase price variances, prepare the journal entry for a purchase of 6,000 widgets that were bought at $8.00 and have a standard cost of $8.15.

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Definitions:

Manufacturing Overhead

All the indirect costs associated with manufacturing a product, such as utilities, maintenance, and factory equipment depreciation, not directly traceable to a specific product.

Activity Cost Drivers

Refers to factors that influence or contribute to the expenses associated with different business activities.

ABC Costing System

Activity-Based Costing is an accounting method that assigns costs to products or services based on the activities that go into producing them.

Plantwide Overhead Allocation

A method of distributing overhead costs to all products or services based on a single cost driver across the entire plant or factory.