Cookie project accounting

In this project, you will open your own specialty cookie company to see how product costing methods and changes in production affect business decisions. You will create a series of reports and analyze the results using the templates provided to guide you through the project.

The learning objectives of this project are as follows:

Gain an understanding of product costing (direct materials, direct labor, and overhead)
Review job order costing
Review process costing
Make business decisions based on analyzing accounting data.
For this component, you will prepare a four-to-five-page written report (including the spreadsheets, which should be incorporated into your paper), with at least three scholarly sources using the Unit II Project Template.

You will create a report based on the premise that you want to establish a cookie business that sells only one type of specialty cookie with two employees. Your report will provide the following information:

Introduction (Part 1)
Create a name and establish a locale for the business.
Construct a mission statement.
Decide on the type of cookie you want to sell.
Costing and Sales Information, Production of 1,000 cookies (Part 2)
Estimate and explain the costs per cookie based on job order costing. Prepare a job order cost sheet by researching the pricing for these top five ingredients: butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, chips/add-ins.
Manufacturing overhead is 30% of direct labor costs.
It will take two employees working two days to make 1,000 cookies.
For process costing, you will examine the costs per 1,000 cookies looking at these top three processes (departments): Mixing, Add-ins, and Packaging.