Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. A materials requisition note is used to record the issue of direct material to a specific job.

2. A typical job cost will contain actual costs for material, labour and production overheads, and 

non –production overheads are often added as a percentage of total production cost

3. The job costing method can be applied in costing batches

(a) (1) only

(b) (1) and (2) only

(c) (1) and (3) only

(d) (2) and (3) only

1 Answer

Answer :

(c) (1) and (3) only

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