Connect Access Card For Fundamental Accounting Principles
Connect Access Card For Fundamental Accounting Principles
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ISBN: 9781260158526
Author: John J Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 19, Problem 1DQ
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Introduction:

Factory overheads are the overheads which are involved in operations of a factory. These are the overheads incurred in the factory other than the costs of direct materials and direct labour. Therefore, they are also known as indirect costs involved in a production process.

Here, in the problem provided to us we are required to ascertain the reason as to why a company assigns the amount of factory overheads to individual jobs or job lots.

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Answer to Problem 1DQ

Solution:

As per the accounting principles, direct materials cost, direct labour costs and factory overhead are all part of the cost of a product during inventory valuation. However, costs such as selling and marketing costs etc. are not part of the inventory valuation and are directly reported in the income statement.

Factory overheads generally include factory rent, factory depreciation, factory supervisor's salary etc. and therefore it is very difficult for the accountants to assign all these costs to individual jobs or job lots since they are not directly related to production process.

Explanation of Solution

As mentioned above that assigning overheads such as factory rent, factory depreciation etc is a difficult task, but their assignment is also important in order to find out the total inventory valuation and cost of goods sold. Rather these overheads are usually predetermined and assigned to jobs so that we can determine the job's total cost in advance which can help the management in taking many important decisions such as the sale price of the product, desired profit margin, costs which can be reduced etc.

And therefore, the company or an organisation must estimate the amount of factory overheads to individual job or job lots.

Conclusion

Hence, assignment of factory overheads to individual job or job lots helps the management in taking important decisions such as price of the product, desired profit margin etc.

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Connect Access Card For Fundamental Accounting Principles

Ch. 19 - 11. Why must a company use predetermined overhead...Ch. 19 - How would a hospital apply job order costing?...Ch. 19 - Harley-Davidson manufactures 30 custom-made,...Ch. 19 - Prob. 14DQCh. 19 - Jobs and job lots C1 Determine which of the...Ch. 19 - Job cost sheets C2 Clemens Cars's job cost sheet...Ch. 19 - Documents in job order costing P1 P2 P3 The left...Ch. 19 - Raw materials journal entries P1 During the...Ch. 19 - Prob. 5QSCh. 19 - Prob. 6QSCh. 19 - Prob. 7QSCh. 19 - Prob. 8QSCh. 19 - Prob. 9QSCh. 19 - Prob. 10QSCh. 19 - Prob. 11QSCh. 19 - Prob. 12QSCh. 19 - Jab order costing of services A1 An advertising...Ch. 19 - Job order costing of services A1 An advertising...Ch. 19 - Job cost sheet C2 Eco Skate makes skateboards from...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-1 Job order production C1 Match each...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-2 Job cost computation C2 The...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-3 Analysis of cost flows C2 As of the...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-4 Recording product costs P1 P2 P3...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-5 Manufacturing cost flows P1 P2 P3...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-6 Recording events in job order...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-7 Cost flows in a jab order costing...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-8 Journal entries for materials P1 Use...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-9 Journal entries for labor P2 Use...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-10 Journal entries for overhead P3 Use...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-11 Overhead rate; costs assigned to...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-12 Analyzing costs assigned to work in...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-13 Adjusting factory overhead P4 Refer...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-14 Adjusting factory overhead P4...Ch. 19 - Prob. 15ECh. 19 - Prob. 16ECh. 19 - Exercise 19-17 Overhead rate calculation,...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-18 Job order costing for services A1...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-19 Job order costing of services A1...Ch. 19 - Exercise 19-20 Direct materials journal entries P1...Ch. 19 - Problem 19-1A Production costs computed and...Ch. 19 - Problem 19-2 A Source documents, journal entries,...Ch. 19 - Prob. 3APSACh. 19 - Prob. 4APSACh. 19 - Problem 19-5A Production transactions, subsidiary...Ch. 19 - Problem 19-1B Production costs computed and...Ch. 19 - Prob. 2BPSBCh. 19 - Prob. 3BPSBCh. 19 - Problem 19-4B Overhead allocation and adjustment...Ch. 19 - Problem 19-5B Production transactions, subsidiary...Ch. 19 - The computer workstation furniture manufacturing...Ch. 19 - The General Ledger tool in Connect automates...Ch. 19 - Manufacturers and merchandisers can apply...Ch. 19 - Prob. 2AACh. 19 - Apple and Samsung compete in the global...Ch. 19 - Assume that your company sells portable housing to...Ch. 19 - Assume that you are preparing for a second...Ch. 19 - Prob. 3BTNCh. 19 - Consider the activities undertaken by a medical...Ch. 19 - Refer to the chapter opener regarding Brennan...Ch. 19 - Prob. 6BTN
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