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

Exercise 4

Distinguish between job costing and process costing.

Step 1 of 3

Costing:

Costing refers to the process of accumulating, classifying and assigning the various cost to the products, services and special orders or projects to arrive at the accurate cost of such product or services.

Since every product and service go through different process so, different costing method is required. Job costing and process costing is two types of costing method.