marginal costing is recommended by IAS and absorption costing is not recommended by IAS,marginal costing is used for internal purposes and absorption costing is ysed for external purposes,in marginal costing the fixed production overheads are not calculated as a product cost and in absorption costing the fixed prodution overheads are calculated as product cost.
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In absorption costing, predetermined overhead rate is use to allocate overheads expenses between departments.
In marginal costing, Overheads are allocated between departments based on actual activities performed by departments.
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Target costing is when you have a goal for the project and its costs. Absorption costing is when you need to fix the excess spending.
The difference between marginal and absorption costing is that when preparing a statement based on marginal costing, you would subtract all variable costs, production or otherwise, from the sales revenue, to give the contribution, from which you subtract all fixed costs (production and non-production) to give profit made.Using absorption costing however, you subtract production costs (this will include both variable and fixed production costs) only from sales to give you the gross profit, from which you then subtract all non-production costs (fixed or variable) to give net profit.The final profit using both methods is always the same.
marginal costing considers only direct) materials,labour,expenses and variable factory overheads excluding fixed factory overheads but absorption considers (direct) materials ,labour,expenses,variable and fixed factory overheads.