Costing systems

1. Job order manufacturing and process manufacturing are two major costing systems used in manufacturing. Answer the following questions regarding these two systems: a. Compare and contrast the two costing systems. b. Which costing system should a service firm, such as an advertising agency use? c. How do these two systems provide decision-making information? 2. Describe activity based costing. Give two examples where activity based costing is preferable over traditional costing. a. How is activity-based costing useful for decision making? b. Discuss the three overhead rate methods used in activity-based costing and consider their relative usefulness.    

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