Job Order Costing Cost Flows and External Reporting
Job Order Costing Cost Flows and External Reporting
Concepts
ACC 422: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
BS Operations Management
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the flow of costs in a job-order costing system and
prepare appropriate journal entries to record costs;
2. Use T-accounts to show the flow of costs in a job-order costing
system;
3. Prepare schedules of cost of goods manufactured and cost of
goods sold and an income statement;
4. Compute underapplied or overapplied overhead cost and prepare
the journal entry to close the balance in manufacturing overhead
to the appropriate accounts.
FLOW OF COSTS in a JOB-ORDER SYSTEM