Industries That Typically Use Process Cost Systems Include Chemicals, Oil

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Industries that typically use process cost systems include chemicals, oil, metals, food, paper, and pharmaceuticals.

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Definitions:

Net Operating Income

The profit a company has after subtracting its operating expenses from its revenue, excluding interest and taxes.

Absorption Costing

This method of product costing in the field of accounting takes into account all manufacturing-related expenditures, including direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overheads, both fixed and variable.

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that captures all of the manufacturing costs (both fixed and variable) in the cost of a product.

Variable Costing

A costing method in which only variable production costs are assigned to inventory and cost of goods sold, excluding fixed manufacturing overhead.