Costing P4

1,000 words; may include some calculations embedded from Excel

Develop a company and determine what it will produce and sell. The requirement for this company is that it be a high-end, special-order type of manufactured product.

• Develop a list of inputs along with their associated costs, such as labor, materials, and overhead. You can research this information, make it up, or do a combination of both. Be specific as to costs.
• You are to determine the selling price. Show your calculations, and discuss why you have determined this to be a good sale price.
• How many items of your product will you need to produce to meet this sale price? How did you calculate this?
• Determine which of the costing systems discussed in this class will work best for your company. Explain why.
  • Explain why those not chosen were not a good fit for your company.
  • You must explain "why not chosen" for a minimum of 3 costing methods.
• Please devote at least 1 paragraph to the ethical considerations of costing methods.

Assignment Guidelines:

• Add a section to your paper, outlining how you would implement capital budgeting in your company.
• Prepare an example of a decision that you would make using either the IRR or Payback method of analysis. Why would you use this for your business?