Chapter 4: Process Costing
Managers need to assign costs to products to facilitate external financial reporting and internal decision making. This chapter illustrates an absorption costing approach to calculating product costs known as process costing.
Job-order and process costing are similar in that they both deal with assigning materials, labor, and overhead to products as a way to calculate the unit product cost.
Both systems use Raw Materials Inventory, Work in Process Inventory, and Finished Goods Inventory.
The flow of costs is similar, but not exactly the same, in the two systems.