Do you feel that knowing and being proficient in one ties directly to the other?
In other words, you work in discrete (Job Order) manufacturing, can you just walk into a Process shop and go or would you have to study the nuts and bolts of process again?
I believe job costing is often more for unique products, possibly time and material billed to a client and process costing is more for standardized products, maybe in higher volume. As to other differences, not real sure if it's a totally different skill set or not.
My personal experience.....
It depends on the company (lifecycle) and I don't need to "study" the nuts and bolts again. More like a refresher. The process itself in familiarizing with the new company's processes/costing IS the refresher.
I say depending on the company lifecycle because it is different for a very new company that is just establishing it's processes/costing. It is different for a "mature" company that has it's processes costing already developed. In the latter case, it just needs a bit of tweaking here and there. In the former case, I have to read up (not really the "nuts and bolts") on the the process and refresh myself since there is no existing process. (wonder if this last paragraph made sense).
