Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis 5th Edition by David Stout, Edward Blocher, Gary Cokins

Exercise 10

Specify the advantage of the weighted-average method of process costing in contrast to the FIFO method.

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Process Costing

Process costing is a costing system where costs are accumulated as per the process and department and then assigns the cost to the homogeneous products. It is called as a process costing because in process costing, cost is calculated process or department wise instead of product wise

Weighted Average Cost and First in First Out (FIFO) method is used to calculate process cost.