• Uniqueness of product. Job costing is used for unique products, and process costing is used for standardized products. • Size of job. Job costing is used for very small production runs, and process costing is used for large production runs. • Record keeping.
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The cost of a unit of production (average cost) with fixed costs plus variable costs • Analysis of cost, price and product competition Unit cost is the lower of the purchase price. Market demand determines the price on access. Now the company needs to find out the prices of competing products as a basis for determining the selling price for their products. Restaurant also needs to compare its cost structure with the cost structure of the competitor to find out the strengths and weaknesses. In addition, also need to understand the quality of competing
This will represent and analysis in the later evaluation of the product. From the perspective of the individual whose sole purpose is to create a successful product, there exist certain factors which comes as the initial stage of the development of the product. • Product quality: Determining on how good the product is resulting from the development effort. Also whether the product is robust and reliable. • Product cost: Determining the manufacturing cost of the product and also if the product is on sale in the market it would turn to give profit.
In the Job Order Costing method every product manufactured is considered it’s own unique job. In this method costs are tracked separately by job. For the purpose of this method services provided can also be
Service costing usually involves a more complicated format to determine the cost accurately. Basic principle of measuring costs, such as fixed and variable costs; type of method of pricing, such as market based pricing, and different methods of allocating costs, such as per service hour, and per kilogram washed, these will be taken into consideration of costing a service (Stephen Devaney, 2015). The decision of the best approaches to use can be very complex as it varies for every different services provided, whereas for manufacturing
Activity based costing elaborates the relationship between activities, cost and products. In this case the three parts need to be evaluated in first part per unit cost needs to be calculated based on the activity cost drivers. In the second part the billing amount needs to be calculated
Price is the amount of money that human pays for enjoying the right, comfort and satisfaction of some product. The price to charge the product is one of the most important making business decision. In the software industry, setting a price for software product is a challenging task because it can affect the business' growth, and build a competitive advantage. Therefore, to achieve and maintain pricing excellence, the company have to follow the following processes. The initial step of pricing the software product is having a deep understanding of the business.
As per (Kotler & Armstrong, 2005) anything that can be used, attracted, acquired attention or consumed to satisfy the need or desire is called as a product. Product is an important element in marketing mix and if managed properly can meet the organizational goals and thereby the needs of the customer. The quality of the product can always be determined by the market share, cost effective, return of investment, usage experience and many other criteria. Product characteristics or the attributes are that identify the product to the market, company and the consumer. The product attributes play an important role on understanding the decision rule in consumer purchase decisions.
The number of consumption cost components for consumer and their numerical values will be determined individually. Consumption cost is one of the most important indicators of competitiveness (especially for machine wares), because operating costs for the entire period of operation is far superior of one-time costs which are connected with the acquisition of goods, for example, for a car is five or six times, for a passenger aircraft is seven to eight times, for diesel generator is four or five times, etc. 3. For calculating the integral index of goods competitiveness, which are made for export, its parameters are compared with existing options or a developed product that best reflects the needs of customers. The comparison is based on quantitative assessments.