It is possible to use a job costing system to control the costs of an internal service department, such as the maintenance department and the printing department.

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• Indirect production costs are incurred in three main ways: • Production activities: costs arising in production departments such as fuel, depreciation, supervision • Service activities: the cost of operating non-producing departments such as materials handling, canteen • Establishment costs: general production overheads such as factory rent/rates, heating and lighting
• Which of the following procedure is incorrect for attributing overhead costs to cost units? I. Collecting production overhead costs by item II. Establishing cost centres III. Allocating and apportioning overhead costs to cost centres IV. Apportioning service cost centre costs to production cost centres V. Absorbing production cost centre costs into cost units
• The apportionment of production overhead costs might be in two stages: • sharing (or dividing) general costs between production centres and service centres; and • then sharing the costs of the service centres between the production centres.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The task that sits at the heart of process costing is always to allocate the costs collected on the debit side of the account to the possible outputs (good output, closing WIP and lost units) on the credit side.
• Overhead is the cost incurred in the course of making a product, providing a service or running a department, but which cannot be traced directly and in full to the product, service or department.