Which of the following is not a characteristic of job-order costing?
A) Wide variety of distinct products.
B) Unit cost is computed by dividing process costs of the period by the units produced in the period.
C) Unit cost is computed by dividing total job costs by units produced on that job.
D) Costs accumulated by job.
E) Typically, the cost of one job is different from that of another job.

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Job-order costing computes unit cost by dividing total job costs by units produced on that job, not by dividing process costs of the period by the units produced in the period. This distinguishes it from process costing.

Which of the Following Is Not a Characteristic of Job-Order