In ____________ costing standardized goods or services result from a sequence of repetitive and more or less continuous operations to which costs are collected and averaged over the units produced during the year.
Process costing is suitable for industries where production is continuous, manufacturing is carried on by distinct and well defined processes, the finished products of one process becomes the raw material of the subsequent process, different products with or without by products are produced simultaneously at the same process and products produced during a particular process are exactly identical.
Multiple Costing represents the application of more than one method of costing in respect of the same product. This is suitable for industries where a number of component parts are separately produced and subsequently assembled into a final product.
Single costing is suitable for industries where manufacture is continuous and units are identical. This method is applied in industries like mines, quarries, oil drilling, breweries, cement works, brick works etc.