Cost Accounting (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133428702
ISBN 13: 978-0-13342-870-4

Chapter 4 - Job Costing - Assignment Material - Questions - Page 136: 4-2

Answer

In a job-costing system, we track costs for specific jobs or batches of items. But in a process-costing system, we use averages to figure out costs for lots of identical items.

Work Step by Step

In a job-costing system, we track costs for specific jobs or batches of items. But in a process-costing system, we use averages to figure out costs for lots of identical items.
Update this answer!

You can help us out by revising, improving and updating this answer.

Update this answer

After you claim an answer you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. An editor will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback.