Roger Parker, the production manager of Products Company, entered the office of controller Harris Johnson and asked, “Harris, what gives here? I was charged for 330 direct labor hours on Job AD22, and my records show that we spent only 290 hours on that job.  That 40-hour difference caused the total cost of direct labor and overhead for the job to increase by over $5,500. Are my records wrong, or was there an error in the direct labor assigned to the job?” Harris replied, “Don’t worry about it, Roger. This job won’t be used in your quarterly  performance evaluation.  Job AD22 was a federal government job, a cost plus contract, so the more costs we assign to it, the more profit we make. We decided to add a few hours to the job in case there is some follow-up work to do. You know how fussy the feds are.” a.      What should Roger Parker do? b.     Discuss Harris Johnson’s costing.

The auto repair shop of Quality Motor Company uses standards to control the labor time and labor cost in the shop. The standard labor cost for a motor tune-up is given below:     Standard Hours Standard Rate Standard Cost Motor tune-up 2.5 $25.00 $62.50     The record showing the time spent in the shop last week on motor tune-ups has been misplaced. However, the shop supervisor recalls that 50 tune-ups were completed during the week, and the controller recalls the following variance data relating to tune-ups:           Labor rate variance $ 150 F Labor spending variance $ 200 U     Required: 1. Determine the number of actual labor-hours spent on tune-ups during the week. 2. Determine the actual hourly rate of pay for tune-ups last week. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

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A company estimated 112,500 direct labor hours and $835,635 in overhead. The actual overhead was $881,112, and there were 106,132 direct labor hours. How much is overhead under- or over- applied? Round to the nearest penny, two decimal places. Enter an overapplied overhead as a negative amount. For example, if it is overapplied by 500.00, the input would be -500.00 do not use parenthesis.

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Bright Star Incorporated is a job-order manufacturer. The company uses predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours to apply overhead to individual jobs. For the current year, estimated direct labor hours were 134,000 and estimated factory overhead was $1,085,400. The following information was for September. Job X was completed during September, while Job Y was started but not finished.

Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.) Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of the year and no beginning inventories. It started. completed, and sold only two jobs during the year-Job P and Job Q. The company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. At the beginning of the year, it estimated that 4,000 machine-hours would be required for the period's estimated level of production. Sweeten also estimated $29,800 of fixed manufacturing overhead cost for the coming period and variable manufacturing overhead of $2.90 per machine-hour. Because Sweeten has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication-it is considering replacing its plantwide overhead rate with departmental rates that would also be based on machine-hours. The company gathered the following additional information to enable calculating departmental overhead rates: Estimated total machine-hours used Estimated total fixed…

Quality Motor Company is an auto repair shop that uses standards to control its labor time and labor cost. The standard labor cost for a motor tune-up is given below: Standard Hours Standard Rate Standard Cost Motor tune-up 2.50 $ 38.00 $ 95.00 The record showing the time spent in the shop last week on motor tune - ups has been misplaced. However, the shop supervisor recalls that 58 tune-ups were completed during the week, and the controller recalls the following variance data relating to tune-ups: Labor rate variance $ 450 F Labor spending variance $ 500 U Required: Determine the number of actual labor - hours spent on tune-ups during the week. Determine the actual hourly pay rate for tune -ups last week. Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

During March, the following transactions/events were reported by Jerico Company that uses job- order costing for its product costing purpose: Depreciation on production machines and equipment, $10,500 Insurance on the plant assets, $2,700 Property taxes on the factory building accrued during the month, $4,000 Advertising paid with cash, $8,200 Which of the following accounts should NOT appaer in your journal entries to record the above transactions? O Depreciation Expense O Prepaid Insurance O Taxes Payable O Advertising (or Selling) Expense

Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of the year and no beginning inventories. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during the year—Job P and Job Q. The company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. At the beginning of the year, it estimated that 4,000 machine-hours would be required for the period’s estimated level of production. Sweeten also estimated $32,200 of fixed manufacturing overhead cost for the coming period and variable manufacturing overhead of $3.50 per machine-hour.   Because Sweeten has two manufacturing departments—Molding and Fabrication—it is considering replacing its plantwide overhead rate with departmental rates that would also be based on machine-hours. The company gathered the following additional information to enable calculating departmental overhead rates:    Molding Fabrication Total Estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 14,500 $…