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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Cost Elements



Cost Elements

Product costs are the sum of their elemental costs. Cost elements are defined as follows:

(a)    Material
(b)   Material Overhead
(c)    Resource
(d)   Overhead
(e)    Outside Processing

Material - The raw material/component cost at the lowest level of the bill of material determined from the unit cost of the component item.

Material Overhead

(a)    The overhead cost of material, calculated as a percentage of the total cost, or as a fixed charge per item, lot, or activity.

(b)   You can use material overhead for any costs attributed to direct material costs.

(c)    If you use Work in Process, then you can also apply material overhead at the assembly level using a variety of allocation charge methods.

Resource

(a)    Direct costs, such as people (labor), machines, space, or miscellaneous charges, required to manufacture products.

(b)   Resources can be calculated as the standard resource rate times the standard units on the routing, per operation, or as a fixed charge per item or lot passing through an operation.

Overhead

(a)    The overhead cost of resource and outside processing, calculated as a percentage of the resource or outside processing cost, as a fixed amount per resource unit, or as a fixed charge per item or lot passing through an operation.

(b)   Overhead is used as a means to allocate department costs or activities. For example, you can define multiple overhead subelements to cover both fixed and variable overhead, each with its own rate.

(c)    You can assign multiple overhead subelements to a single department, and vice versa.

Outside Processing

(a)    This is the cost of outside processing purchased from a supplier.

(b)   Outside processing may be a fixed charge per item or lot processed, a fixed amount per outside processing resource unit, or the standard resource rate times the standard units on the routing operation.

(c)    To implement outside processing costs, you must define a routing operation, and use an outside processing resource.

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