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BIG Manufacturing Products has been using FIFO process costing for tracking the costs of its manufacturing activities. However, in recent months the system has become somewhat bogged down with details. It seems that when the company purchased Brown Electronics last year its product lines increased six fold. This has caused both the accountants and the suppliers of the information, the line managers, great difficulty in keeping the costs of each product line separate. Likewise, the estimation of the completion of ending work-in-process inventories and the associated costs has become very cumbersome. The chief financial officer of the company is looking for ways to improve the reporting system of product costs.
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Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Canadian Edition

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6 years ago
A beginning point would be to change to a standard costing system. Standard costing eliminates many of the problems of FIFO costing in tracking actual costs to products. With standard costing only the equivalent units have to be determined immediately, not the actual cost of the period. A standard cost for materials and conversion are then applied to the equivalent units for the reporting period. Actual costs and variances from standard can be determined later. This approach is very appropriate for a company that has many products.
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