A costing system. The costing system includes a costing model and a
costing engine. The costing model records parent-child relationships
between a plurality of stages of a production line, and at least one
valuation type for each stage. The costing engine retrieves a group of
valuation type combinations corresponding to the parent stages of the
target stage from the costing model, and combines the target valuation
type corresponding to the target stage with valuation type combinations
corresponding to the parent stages, thereby generating a cost
identification, and costing results accordingly.