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Definition
Characteristics of contract costing
Contract terminology
Construction In Process account
Contractee account
Statement of Financial Position
(extract)
Calculation of estimated profit
Fazrul Hanim@UiTM JOHOR
Definition
Contract costing :
Is a form of specific order costing, attribution
of costs to individual contracts. (CIMA
terminology)
Usually applies to major long term contracts
rather than short term jobs.
Characteristics
Job to be carried out is large in value
Job takes a longer duration of time to complete,
normally more than one accounting period.
A contract account (Construction in Process Ac)
is maintained for each contract undertaken
Similar to job costing, except different in size,
undertaken to customer special requirement.
Site oriented, frequently construction work
Higher proportion of direct costs and low
overhead costs.
Fazrul Hanim@UiTM JOHOR
SUBCONTRACTOR
CONTRACTEE
ARCHITECT
Contract terminology
terminology
definition
Progress billing @
Value of work certified
Progress payment
Cost of work
uncertified
Contract terminology
terminology
definition
Contract Revenue /
price
Retention money
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
COWDTD b/d
Attributable profits
XX
XX
Contract revenue
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
Cash/ bank
Bal c/d (retention money)
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
Contractee
XX
XX
Contractor will bill the customer from time to time according to an agreed
schedule.
When the contractee is billed, the Contractee Account (also knows as
Account Receivable) is debited & Progress Billing Account will be
credited.
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Attributable Profit
Calculation of profit attributed to each accounting
period.
2 methods:
Cost Basis
Loss on contract
If a loss can be estimated to result when the
contract is completed, the whole amount of loss
must be taken into account in the period when the
loss is estimated.
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RM
Cost of work done to date
XX
(+) attributable profit
XX
(-) Forseeable losses
XX
Costruction in progress b/d
A
(-) Progress payment received/ Value of Work certified
XX
WIP
B
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