Oracle published a document with a user friendly description of the production cost accounting functionality in JD Edwards.
The document is designed for individuals in charge of tracing costs of production, work in process, analysis and settlement of deviations from standard costs. The document presents a comprehensible description of the structure of data set on which Production Accounting is based in the system. Specifically, the document contains a description of calculation methods for specific values and explanation of changes of these values at different points of production orders life cycle.

Figure – Detailed view of costs on a work order
With this document, working with production cost accounting becomes much easier.

See the link to the document below: The document is available on the Oracle website for registered users:
https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocContentDisplay?id=1392226.1