Managerial Accounting (15th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 007802563X
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-563-1

Chapter 4 - Process Costing - Questions - Page 159: 4-3

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Cost accumulation is simpler under process costing because costs only need to be assigned to departments, not individual jobs. A company usually has a small number of processing departments, whereas a job-order costing system often must keep track of the costs of hundreds or even thousands of jobs.

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