Nut House manufactures and sells jars of peanut butter. All of the company’s output passes through five production pro-cesses, which are performed in sequential order. Identify all correct answers, assuming that process costing is in use. a. The processing departments may define “units of out-put” differently. b. Costs transferred from one processing department are charged to the next processing department (or to fin-ished goods).
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
Nut House manufactures and sells jars of peanut butter. All
of the company’s output passes through five production pro-
cesses, which are performed in sequential order. Identify all
correct answers, assuming that
a. The processing departments may define “units of out-
put” differently.
b. Costs transferred from one processing department are
charged to the next processing department (or to fin-
ished goods).
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