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The Product Costing Builder

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The Product Costing Builder

Build a full unit cost for this product and show me what's in it.

Product: [DESCRIBE]
Costing method: [JOB COSTING / PROCESS COSTING / RECOMMEND ONE]
Cost inputs I have: [DIRECT MATERIALS, DIRECT LABOUR, OVERHEAD INFO]
Overhead basis: [LABOUR HOURS / MACHINE HOURS / OTHER / RECOMMEND]

Provide:
1. Direct materials, direct labour, and applied overhead per unit
2. The overhead rate and how it was derived
3. Total product cost per unit and the gross margin at price [PRICE]
4. How sensitive the unit cost is to the overhead allocation choice
5. What's excluded (period costs) and why it doesn't belong in unit cost

Flag if the overhead method is distorting the true cost of this product.

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