We can understand the difference of job order costing and process costing from their definitions. However we can differentiate them in effective way by following way :
Difference Between Job order costing and Process
costing
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It Involves custom orders according to
the demand.
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Products are large in volume
irrelevant to the order.
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Few products manufactured in job order
different from each other costing based on the order.
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In this many products are manufactured
which are similar to each other.
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Product flexibility is high because of
heterogeneous products.
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Product flexibility is low because of
similar products.
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In job order costing standardization
is low or medium not high.
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In process costing standardization is
high as compared with job order costing.
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Production level is lower because of
order based production of heterogeneous items.
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Production level is higher because of
repetition of production process of similar items.
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