Those costs include direct costs, variable overhead costs, and fixed overhead costs. Under absorption costing, all manufacturing costs, both direct and indirect, are included in the cost of a product. Absorption costing is typically used for external reporting purposes, such as calculating the cost of goods sold for financial statements. Under variable costing, companies charge off, orexpense, all the fixed manufacturing costs during the period ratherthan deferring their expense and carrying them forward to the nextperiod as part of inventory cost. Consequently, income before income taxes under variablecosting is $600 less than under absorption costing because morecosts...
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