Horngren's Accounting (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134486444
Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 19, Problem P19.39BPGB
Using job order costing in a service company
Learning Objective 6
2. Tasty Co-op $312,500
Skylark Design, Inc. is a Web site design and consulting firm. The firm uses a job order costing system in which each client is a different job. Skylark Design assigns direct labor, licensing costs, and travel costs directly to each job. It allocates indirect
At the beginning of 2018, managing partner Judi Jacquin prepared the following budget estimates:
| Direct labor hours (professionals) | 8,000 hours |
| Direct labor costs (professionals) | $2,000,000 |
| Support staff salaries | 866,000 |
| Computer leases | 49,000 |
| Office supplies | 24,000 |
| Office rent | 61,000 |
In November 2018, Skylark Design served several clients. Records for two clients appear here:
| Tasty Co-op | Maynard Chocolates | |
| Direct labor hours | 800 hours | 300 hours |
| Software licensing costs | $1,500 | $500 |
| Travel costs | 11,000 | 0 |
Requirements
- Compute Skylark Design's direct labor rate and its predetermined overhead allocation rate for 2018.
- Compute the total cost of each job.
- If Judi wants to earn profits equal to 50% of service revenue, what fee should she charge each of these two clients?
- Why does Skylark Design assign costs to jobs?
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Using job order costing in a service company
Bluebird Design, Inc. is a Web site design and consulting firm. The firm uses a job order costing system in which each client is a different job. Bluebird Design assigns direct labor, licensing costs, and travel costs directly to each job. It allocates indirect costs to jobs based on a predetermined overhead allocation rate, computed as a percentage of direct labor costs.
At the beginning of 2018, managing partner Sally Simone prepared the following budget estimates:
In November 2018, Bluebird Design served several clients. Records for two clients appear here:
Requirements
Compute Bluebird Designs direct labor rate and its predetermined overhead allocation rate for 2018.
Compute the total cost of each job.
If Simone wants to earn profits equal to 50% of service revenue, what fee should she charge each of these two clients?
Why does Bluebird Design assign costs to jobs?
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Job Order Cost Accounting Entries for a Service Business
Media Connect Inc. provides advertising services for clients across the nation. Media Connect is presently working on four projects, each for a different client. Media Connect accumulates costs for each account (client) on the basis of both direct costs and allocated indirect costs. The direct costs include the charged time of professional personnel and media purchases (air time and ad space). Overhead is allocated to each project as a percentage of media purchases. The predetermined overhead rate is 55% of media purchases. On April 1, the four advertising projects had the following accumulated costs:
April 1 Balances
First Bank
$56,000
Reliable Airlines
16,800
Motel 26
39,200
Blue Mountain Beverages
24,100
During April, Media Connect incurred the following direct labor and media purchase costs related to preparing advertising for each of the four accounts:
Direct Labor
Media Purchases…
to the balance in Finished Goods? What would happen to the balance of Cost of Goods
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Cornerstone Exercise 5.3 Job Costs Using Activity-Based Costing
Heitger Company is a job-order costing firm that uses activity-based costing to apply overhead
to jobs. Heitger identified three overhead activities and related drivers. Budgeted information
for the year is as follows:
Activity
Cost
Driver
Amount of Driver
Materials handling
Engineering
Other overhead
$ 72,000
165,000
280,000
Number of moves
3,000
10,000
Number of change orders
Direct labor hours
50,000
Heitger worked on four jobs in July. Data are as follows:
Job 13-43
Job 13-44
Job 13-45
Job 13-46
$ 2,300
$12,700
$32,000
%24
$9,800
$2,400
(continued)
$
Beginning balance
Direct materials
$20,300
$ 6,500
$19,800
$ 8,900
$20,000
$18,000
Direct labor cost
Chapter 19 Solutions
Horngren's Accounting (12th Edition)
Ch. 19 - Prob. 1QCCh. 19 - When a manufacturing company uses direct...Ch. 19 - When a manufacturing company uses indirect...Ch. 19 - When a manufacturing company uses direct labor, it...Ch. 19 - What is Gell's predetermined overhead allocation...Ch. 19 - What is Gell's actual manufacturing overhead cost?...Ch. 19 - How much manufacturing overhead would Gell...Ch. 19 - What entry would Gell make to adjust the...Ch. 19 - A manufacturing company completed work on a job....Ch. 19 - Prob. 10QC
Ch. 19 - Why do managers need to know the cost of their...Ch. 19 - What types of companies use job order costing...Ch. 19 - What types of companies use process costing...Ch. 19 - What is the purpose of a job cost record?Ch. 19 - Explain the difference between cost of goods...Ch. 19 - A job was started on May 15, completed on June 27,...Ch. 19 - Give the journal entry for raw materials purchased...Ch. 19 - What is the purpose of the raw materials...Ch. 19 - How does the use of direct and indirect materials...Ch. 19 - Give the journal entry for direct and indirect...Ch. 19 - Give five examples of manufacturing overhead...Ch. 19 - What is the predetermined overhead allocation...Ch. 19 - What is an allocation base? Give some examples.Ch. 19 - How is manufacturing overhead allocated to jobs?Ch. 19 - A completed job cost record shows the unit cost of...Ch. 19 - Explain the journal entry for the allocation of...Ch. 19 - Give the journal entry for the completion of a...Ch. 19 - Why does the sale of a completed job require two...Ch. 19 - Prob. 19RQCh. 19 - If a company incurred $5,250 in actual overhead...Ch. 19 - Refer to the previous question. Give the journal...Ch. 19 - Explain the terms accumulate, assign, allocate,...Ch. 19 - Why would the manager of a service company need to...Ch. 19 - How is the predetermined overhead allocation rate...Ch. 19 - Distinguishing between job order costing and...Ch. 19 - Accounting for materials Back Country manufactures...Ch. 19 - Accounting for materials Learning Objective 2...Ch. 19 - Accounting for labor Learning Objective 2...Ch. 19 - Accounting for overhead Learning Objective 3 Oak...Ch. 19 - Allocating overhead Learning Objective 3 Job 303...Ch. 19 - Calculating predetermined overhead allocation...Ch. 19 - Completing and selling products Learning Objective...Ch. 19 - Comparing actual to allocated overhead Learning...Ch. 19 - Calculating under/overallocated overhead Learning...Ch. 19 - Prob. S19.11SECh. 19 - Prob. S19.12SECh. 19 - Prob. S19.13SECh. 19 - Prob. S19.14SECh. 19 - Distinguishing between job order costing and...Ch. 19 - Defining terminology Learning Objectives 1,2 Match...Ch. 19 - E19-17 Accounting for job costs
Learning Objective...Ch. 19 - E19-18 Recording materials and labor...Ch. 19 - Prob. E19.19ECh. 19 - Allocating and adjusting manufacturing overhead...Ch. 19 - Prob. E19.21ECh. 19 - Prob. E19.22ECh. 19 - Prob. E19.23ECh. 19 - Preparing job order costing journal entries...Ch. 19 - Prob. E19.25ECh. 19 - E19-26 Determining missing amounts
Learning...Ch. 19 - Prob. E19.27ECh. 19 - Prob. P19.28APGACh. 19 - Prob. P19.29APGACh. 19 - Prob. P19.30APGACh. 19 - Prob. P19.31APGACh. 19 - Prob. P19.32APGACh. 19 - Prob. P19.33APGACh. 19 - Prob. P19.34BPGBCh. 19 - Prob. P19.35BPGBCh. 19 - Prob. P19.36BPGBCh. 19 - Prob. P19.37BPGBCh. 19 - Prob. P19.38BPGBCh. 19 - Using job order costing in a service company...Ch. 19 - Using Excel to calculate a predetermined overhead...Ch. 19 - P19-41 Accounting for manufacturing overhead
This...Ch. 19 - Prob. 19.1TIATCCh. 19 - Prob. 19.1DCCh. 19 - Prob. 19.1FC
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