3. Product and Service Costing 3- Financial Accounting Product costs are used to value inventory and to compute cost of goods sold. Managerial Accounting and Cost Management Product costs are used for planning, control, directing, and management decision making. Our focus changes from financial statement costs to operations
20. 3- Actual direct material and direct labor combined with actual overhead. Actual direct material and direct labor combined with predetermined overhead. Using a predetermined rate makes it possible to estimate total job costs sooner. Actual overhead for the period is not known until the end of the period. Actual and Normal Costing