Malik’s Bookshop applies operating overhead to printing jobs on the basis of machine hours used. Overhead costs are expected to total $360,000 for the year, and machine usage is estimated at 125,000 hours. For the year, $395,000 of overhead costs are incurred and 130,000 hours are used. Instructions (a) Compute the service overhead rate for the year. (b) What is the amount of under- or overapplied overhead at December 31? (c) Assuming the under- or overapplied overhead for the year is not allocated to inventory accounts, prepare the adjusting entry to assign the amount to cost of jobs finished.
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
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Malik’s Bookshop applies operating Instructions |
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(a) Compute the service overhead rate for the year. |
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