Costing Systems

Product costing systems are methods used to manage inventories. Accounting systems primarily engage one of three costing systems at a time: job order costing, process-based costing, or activity-based costing.

Respond to one or more of the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Briefly explain each of the three costing systems in accounting. Discuss the situations in which each system would be best employed by a business.
• Distinguish between under- and over- applied manufacturing overhead.
• Distinguish between direct and indirect materials.