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Transfer Pricing – How to know if its Marginal or Absorption in Income statement

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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 3 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • May 19, 2021 at 4:36 pm #621077
    beomkomap
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    Hi sir John,

    Would like to ask you how to know if it’s Marginal or Absorption costing to construct the Net Income for each division? Im talking about the treatment of the 2 fixed costs below: “Annual divisional fixed production overheads” and “Annual divisional fixed administrative overheads”.
    The transfer price is set at Wolverhampton’s full cost plus a 25% profit mark up.
    The answer provided to me is for Birmingham Division, gross profit minus (875k+375k) so I assume they are using Marginal costing but I used Absorption costing instead.

    Appreciate your kind assistance and I thank you in advance!

    Wolverhampton Division Birmingham Division
    External Selling Price per unit £25 £32
    Direct material cost per unit £8 £3
    Direct labour cost per unit £5 £3
    Annual divisional fixed production
    overheads £2,500,000 £875,000
    Annual divisional fixed
    administrative overheads £1,000,000 £375,000
    Variable selling overheads per unit £1.75 £1.75
    Annual production capacity 1,250,000 units 700,000 units
    Sales to outside customers 900,000 units 350,000 units
    Internal sales 350,000 units

    May 19, 2021 at 5:09 pm #621086
    John Moffat
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    As I explain in my free lectures on this, we always assume (unless told otherwise) that the divisions are making many products and that therefore the fixed costs will remain unchanged regardless of what is transferred.

    Have you watched my free lectures?

    May 23, 2021 at 3:25 pm #621545
    beomkomap
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    Thank you for the response. I’ve watched 2 videos about Transfer pricing on your youtube channel, will revisit them. 🙂

    May 24, 2021 at 6:43 am #621573
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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