ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indian Railways, Sept

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A major benefit of this method is simplicity. The main disadvantage is reduced accuracy in computing unit costs. If greater accuracy is required company should use fifo. Some departments receive partially completed goods from prior departments. The usual approach is to treat transferred-in goods as a separate material category. Cost of this material is the cost of the goods transferred out as computed in the prior department. For sept. company a encapsulating department had: Completed and transferred out 60000 units at a cost of . Any product or service that is basically homogenous and repetitively produced can take advantage of a process-costing approach. Service can not be stored, however it is possible for firms to engage in service production and have wip inventories. Manufacturing firms with jit may also operate without significant wip inv. Traditional manufacturing firms may have significant beginning and ending wip inv. Separates the cost of bwip from the cost of the current period.

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