Job costing is used when a business entity carries out tasks or jobs to meet specific customer orders.

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• Job costing is used when a business entity carries out tasks or jobs to meet specific customer orders.
• In Job costing a cost is calculated for each individual job, and this cost can be used to establish the profit or loss from doing the job.
• In a costing system, a job account is similar to a work in progress account, except that it is for one job only. In a company that specialises in jobbing work, the work in progress account is the total of all the individual job accounts.
• A job costing system is usually based on absorption costing principles, and in addition a cost is included for non-production overheads.
• Job costing is a costing method applied where work is undertaken to customers’ special requirements and each order is of comparatively short duration.
• Batch costing is similar to job costing in that each batch of similar articles is separately identifiable.
• The job costing method can therefore be applied in costing batches. The only difference is that a number of items are being costed together as a single unit, instead of a single item or service.
• A separate record must therefore be maintained to show the details of individual jobs. Such records are often known as job cost sheets or job cost cards.
• In job costing each job is given a unique:
• Process costing provides a system of costing where the following characteristics occur. Identify which of the following are correct: