Continuous-Operation Costing

Continuous-Operation Costing
A system of costing applied to industries where production methods are continuous, such as in electricity generation and bottling. This system uses average costing to determine unit cost by dividing the total production cost by the number of items produced.
Process Costing
A costing system applied to production carried out by a series of chemical or operational stages or processes. Characterized by the accumulation of costs for the whole production process and computation of average unit costs at each stage.

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