Backflush Costing. Backflush costing is appropriate in a JIT
environment, because in this environment work-in-process and finished-goods
inventories are minimal, and goods are sold as they are produced. In Backflush costing
system no effort is made to track materials and components from material warehouse
through work-in-process and finished goods. Backflush costing system eliminates
transactions to record the movement of raw materials to work-in-process inventory. In
addition, movements of inventory are not reported until finished goods are produced.
Work-in-process inventory is updated only after taking a physical count of the inventory
on the shop floor (Swenson and Cassidy, 1993:43).