Process Costing and Job-Order Costing

Which method of determining product costs, job-order costing or process costing, would be more appropriate in each of the following situations’?

a. An Elmer’s glue factory.

b. A textbook publisher such as McGraw-Hill.

c. An Exxon oil refinery.

d. A facility that makes Minute Maid frozen orange juice.

e. A Scott paper mill.

f. A custom home builder.

g. A shop that customizes vans.

h. A manufacturer of specialty chemicals.

i. An auto repair shop.

j. A Firestone tire manufacturing plant.

k. An advertising agency.

l. A law office.