ACTG 4400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Execution Unit, Cost Driver, Weighted Arithmetic Mean

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Appropriate when product is made to customers specifications: distinct, identifiable units of a product, ex. custom made machines, houses etc. Different amounts of dms and conversion costs used in production process for each job. Focus is to accumulate costs to each job since each can use dramatically different amounts of input: cost records must be thus maintained for each job. Number of units of output is not an issue because they have been determined by customer specifications for that job. Unit cost = total accumulated cost for the job/# of units of output produced for the job. Key elements of job-costing system: cost object = distinct type of job, cost driver = cost allocation base and shared resources used, direct cost pools = traced separately from indirect costs. Indirect cost pools = allocated to cost object. All units produced are identical or very similar (ex. milk, t-shirt, tv etc. : ex. food, chemical processing, each unit indistinguishable from any other.

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