Landau Company
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Problem Statement
What costing System should Landau Company adopt to best depict the company’s Income Statement?
Objectives
• To adapt an accurate costing system that would depict the monthly income statement of Landau Company.
• To cite the Pros and Cons of the chosen costing system.
• To enhance management’s control efforts and present a rational and balance Income Statement.
Areas of Consideration
• The significant increase of sales in July over June, yet income was lower in July than in June.
• Lack of control over long-run costs that can bankrupt a company.
• Margins on Landau’s products in June and July.
• The company is looking for a new approach for internal managerial purposes.
Alternative Courses of Action
1. Variable Costing System
Pros:
• Eliminates time consuming efforts of allocating fixed overhead to individual products.
• Management’s cost control efforts would be enhanced.
• Useful in comparing the profitability of individual product.
• Avoids the complexities associated with manufacturing overhead.
• Removes fixed manufacturing overhead and teats it as a period cost and not as a product cost.
• Helps managers understand h manufacturing costs are being incurred
• Very valuable tool for management in making decision and often use for internal reports.
• Income figure is not affected by production thus overproduction can be prevented.
Cons:
• Selling the products at their usual mark up over variable costs.
• Volume variances will not appear due to no fixed overhead is applied to products.
• Not permitted for external reporting purposes.
• Almost no manufacturers use this procedure in published financial reports because it has not yet been functioned by the institutions like SEC and BIR.
• If fixed cost is not treated as cost of product lower selling price is set
2. Full Absorption Costing System
Pros:
• Encourages high production. These means that the more they produce the higher their income
• Required for financial reporting and income tax purposes.
• Used by manufacturing organizations to account for costs as raw materials more through the production effort to become finished goods.
Cons:
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