Some production costs need to be assigned to products through an allocation process as these costs are sometimes not easily traceable to a specific job or a product.For example the salary of a factory manager cannot be traced to a particular product or job as it is rather incurred as an outcome of overall production activities.Also indirect materials cannot be traced to a specific job easily,so if these costs are to be assigned to a product then they must be allocated to the product through an allocation process.
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