Senangin Corporation uses a job-order costing system and applies overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. At the beginning of the year, management estimated that 125,000 direct labor hours would be worked and RM450,000 of manufacturing overhead costs would be incurred. During the year, the company actually worked 130,000 direct labor hours and incurred the following manufacturing costs: RM Direct materials used in production 380,000 Direct labor 400,000 Indirect labor 95,000 Indirect materials 67,500 Insurance (30% for factory assets) 30,000 Utilities (60% used for production) 42,000 Repairs and maintenance (100% for factory assets) 25,000 Depreciation on machine used in production 105,000 Depreciation on fixed assets in corporate block 78,000 Required: a) Calculate the predetermined overhead rate for the year. b) Determine the amount of manufacturing overhead applied to work in process during the year.
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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