In most companies, transfer pricing is the only legitimate need for assigning a product cost to an individual product.
When a product is moving from one location to another within the same
organization, and when those locations are in different countries, it is necessary to have a transfer price that is usually based on the product cost.
Some companies, however, calculate transfer prices based on their product prices rather than their costs; most, however, use product cost as the basis for transfer pricing.
When a product cost is needed for transfer pricing (or other requirement),
the features and characteristics method of product costing, which we will discuss later (p.23), is recommended.