Can absorption costing cause an increase in net income?
[2023-03-09 17:20:17]
If the company increases production and inventory, the absorption cost may result in an increase in net income. This is because fixed manufacturing costs are assigned to more production units. Some of them are used as inventory reports.
To illustrate this, suppose there is no initial inventory and there are 100,000 production plans. We also assume an annual fixed manufacturing cost of $ 600,000. When producing 100,000 pieces, the fixed manufacturing cost per piece is 6 dollars (60 thousand dollars divided by 100 thousand units). If 100,000 pieces are sold at a price of $ 20 each, sales income of $ 2,000,000 will be reported in the income statement and cost of sales will include a fixed manufacturing cost of $ 600,000.
Suppose the company decides to produce 120 thousand units even if the expected sales volume remains 100 thousand. Since the fixed manufacturing cost is still $ 600,000, the cost per unit of fixed manufacturing cost is $ 5 (600,000 dollars divided by the production number of 120,000 units). In this case, the company reports the same sales of 2 million dollars (selling 100 thousands at 200 thousand dollars), but its cost of sales is only 500 thousand dollars (500 dollars at 5 dollars) of fixed manufacturing cost It is not included. Its company's balance sheet account stock includes the company's fixed manufacturing cost of 100,000 dollars (20,000 units × 5 dollars).
As mentioned above, as production and inventory increase, the income statement reports a decrease in cost of sales. Declines in commodity costs mean increases in gross margin and net income
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