Job Costing
Job Costing
Job Costing
METHODS OF COSTING
Job order costing
Contract costing or terminal
costing
Batch costing
Process costing
Operation costing
Single or unit costing
Service costing
Composite costing
Single or unit costing
It is applied where the organisations produce single
product and the whole production involve in
manufacture of single product.
In unit costing, cost is collected elementwise like
Direct Materials, Direct Labour, Prime cost, Factory
Overhead, Administration Overhead, Selling and
Distribution Overhead etc.
Cost per Unit =
Total cost for the period
Number of Units produced during the Period
Job Costing & Batch Costing
Job costing: A Job is a specific order for work usually
carried out within a factory or workshop and moves
through activities and operations as a continuously
identifiable unit. For ex-
Engineering jobs, Printing jobs, ship building,
Furniture making etc
Batch costing: The batch costing is used when a
quantity of similar and identical products are
manufactured together as one Job. The batch costing
is used in Printing, Packaging, Automobile and
engineering components, Textiles etc
Cost Flowchart
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Seven-step Job Costing
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Income Statement
Figure carries
forward from
the Schedule
of Cost of
Goods
Manufactured
Period Costs
are expensed
as incurred
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