Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis 7th Edition by Edward Blocher,David Stout ,Paul Juras,Gary Cokins

Exercise 25

Process Costing in Process Industries Process costing is a good fit for companies in process industries in which costs are more easily traced to production departments than to individual products. The products are generally produced on a continuous, mass production basis. Process industries often involve the production of a commodity product, and the companies in these industries usually have a small number of relatively homogeneous products.
Required Give some examples of companies that would use process costing, and explain why.