ESERCIZI

1 PREDETERMINED OVERHEAD RATE, OVERHEAD APPLICATION

At the beginning of the year, Kreskin Company estimated the following costs:
Overhead
Direct labor cost

$450,000
600,000

Kreskin uses normal costing and applies overhead on the basis of direct labor cost. (Direct
labor cost is equal to total direct labor hours worked multiplied by the wage rate.) For the
month of December, direct labor cost was $38,900.
Required:

1.
2.

Calculate the predetermined overhead rate for the year.

Calculate the overhead applied to production in December.

2 OVERHEAD VARIANCE (OVER-OR UNDERAPPLIED), CLOSING TO

COST OF GOODS SOLD
At the end of the year, Kreskin Company provided the following actual information:
Overhead
Direct labor cost

$456,500
607,200

Kreskin uses normal costing and applies overhead at the rate of 75 percent of direct labor cost. At the end of
the year, Cost of Goods Sold (before adjusting for any overhead variance) was $890,000.
Required:
1. Calculate the overhead variance for the year.
2. Dispose of the overhead variance by adjusting Cost of Goods Sold.

3 PREPARE JOB-ORDER COST SHEETS, PREDETERMINED OVERHEAD RATE, ENDING

BALANCE OF WIP, FINISHED GOODS, AND COGS
At the beginning of June, Donegal Company had two jobs in process, Job 44 and Job 45, with the following
accumulated cost information:
Job 44
Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Balance, June 1

Job 45

$4,600

$ 500

1,200
750

1,000
1,300

$6,550

$2,800

During June, two more jobs (46 and 47) were started. The following direct materials and direct labor costs
were added to the four jobs during the month of June:

Job 44
$1,500
1,000

Direct materials
Direct Labor

Job 45
$6,110
2,400

Job 46
$800
2,000

Job 47
$700
600

At the end of June, Jobs 44, 45, and 47 were completed. Only Job 45 was sold. On June 1, the balance in
Finished Goods was zero.
Required:
1. Calculate the overhead rate based on direct labor cost.
2. Prepare a brief job-order cost sheet for the four jobs. Show the balance as of June 1 as well as direct
materials and direct labor added in June. Apply overhead to the four jobs for the month of June, and show
the ending balances.
3. Calculate the ending balances of Work in Process and Finished Goods as of June 30.
4. Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold for June.
4 ASSIGNING SUPPORT DEPARTMENT COSTS BY USING THE DIRECT METHOD
Vanderber Company manufactures a product in a factory that has two producing departments, Cutting and
Sewing, and two support departments, S1 and S2. The activity driver for S1 is number of employees, and the
activity driver for S2 is number of maintenance hours. The following data pertain to Vanderber Company:
Support Departments

Producing Departments

S1

S2

Cutting

Sewing

Direct costs

$180,000

$150,000

$122,000

$90,500

Normal activity:
Number of employees
Maintenance hours

1,200

3
0

63
16,000

147
4,000

Required:
1. Calculate the cost assignment ratios to be used under the direct method for Departments S1 and S2.
(Each support department will have two ratiosone for Cutting and the other for Sewing.)
2. Allocate the support department costs to the producing departments by using the direct method.
5 SEQUENTIAL METHOD
Lanoka Company manufactures pottery in two producing departments: Shaping and Firing. Three support
departments support the following production departments: Power, General Factory, and Human Resources.
Budgeted data on the five departments are as follows:
Support Departments
Producing Departments
General
Power
Direct overhead costs
Kilowatt-hours
Square feet
Direct labor hours

$90,000

2,000

Factory

Human
Resources

Shaping

Firing

$167,000

$84,000

$75,000

$234,000

13,000

25,000

30,000

70,000

6,000

24,000

8,000

4,000

6,000

Power is allocated on the basis of kilowatt-hours, general factory is allocated on the

basis of square footage, and human resources is allocated on the basis of direct labor
hours. The company does not break overhead into fixed and variable components.
Required:
1. Calculate the cost assignment ratios to be used under the sequential method forpower and general factory.
2.

Allocate the overhead costs to the producing departments by using the sequential method.

6 JOB-ORDER COSTING VERSUS PROCESS COSTING

a.
b.
c.
d.

Auto manufacturing
Dental services
Auto repair
Costume making

Required:
For each of the given types of industries, give an example of a firm that would use job- order costing. Then,
give an example of a firm that would use process costing.
7 CALCULATING DEPARTMENTAL OVERHEAD RATES AND
APPLYING OVERHEAD TO PRODUCTION
At the beginning of the year, Videosym Company estimated the following:
Assembly Department
Overhead
Direct labor hours
Machine hours

$620,000
155,000
80,000

Testing Department
$180,000
20,000
120,000

Total
$800,000
175,000
200,000

Video sym uses departmental overhead rates. In the assembly department, overhead is applied
on the basis of direct labor hours. In the testing department, overhead is applied on the basis of
machine hours. Actual data for the month of March are as follows:

Overhead
Direct labor hours
Machine hours

Assembly Department

Testing Department

Total

53,000
13,000
6,800

15,500
1,680
13,050

68,500
14,680
19,850

Required:
1. Calculate the predetermined overhead rates for the assembly and testing
departments.
2. Calculate the overhead applied to production in each department for the month of March.
3. By how much has each departments overhead been overapplied? Underapplied?

8 APPLYING OVERHEAD TO JOBS, COSTING JOBS

Perrine Company builds internal conveyor equipment to client specifications. On October 1, Job 877 was in
process with a cost of $20,520 to date.
During October, Jobs 878, 879, and 880 were started. Data on costs added during October for all jobs are
as follows:
Job 877
Job 878
Job 879
Job 880
Direct materials
Direct labor

$13,960
13,800

$ 7,000
10,000

$ 350
1,500

$4,800
4,000

Overhead is applied to production at the rate of 85 percent of direct labor cost. Job 878 was completed
on October 28, and the client was billed at cost plus 50 percent. All other jobs remained in process.
Required:
1. Prepare a brief job-order cost sheet showing the October 1 balances of all four jobs, plus the direct
materials and direct labor costs during October. (There is no need to calculate applied overhead at this point
or to total the costs.)
2. Calculate the overhead applied during October.
3. Calculate the balance in Work in Process on October 31.
4. What is the price of Job 878?
9 JOB-ORDER COST SHEETS, BALANCE IN WORK IN PROCESS AND FINISHED
GOODS
Berne Company,a job-order costing firm, worked on three jobs in July. Data are as follows:

Balance, 7/1
Direct materials
Direct labor
Machine hours

$8,450
$7,450
$12,000
400

$0
$12,300
$10,500
350

$0
$16,150
$23,000
1,000

Overhead is applied to jobs at the rate of $20 per machine hour. By July 31, Jobs 73 and 75 were
completed. Jobs 70 and 73 were sold. Job 74 remained in process. On July 1, the balance in Finished Goods
was $49,000 (consisting of Job 70 for $19,000 and Job 72 for $30,000).
Berne prices its jobs at cost plus 30 percent. During July, variable marketing expenses were 10 percent
of sales, and fixed marketing expenses were $2,000; administrative expenses were $4,800.
Required:
1. Prepare job-order cost sheets for all jobs in process during July, showing all costs through July 31.
2. Calculate the balance in Work in Process on July 31.
3. Calculate the balance in Finished Goods on July 31.
4. Calculate Cost of Goods Sold for July.
5. Prepare an income statement for Berne Company for the month of July.
10 JOB COST FLOWS
Ionia Company uses a normal job-order costing system. The company has two departments through
which most jobs pass. Overhead is applied using a plantwide overhead rate of $12 per direct labor hour.
During the year, several jobs were completed. Data pertaining to one such job, Job 9-601, follow:

Direct materials
Direct labor cost:
Department A (6,000 hours @ $6)
Department B (1,000 hours @ $6)

$18,000
$36,000
$6,000
Machine hours used:
Department A
Department B
Units produced

100
1,200
10,000

Required:

1. Compute the total cost of Job 9-601.

2. Compute the per-unit manufacturing cost for Job 9-601.
For Requirements 3 and 4, assume that Ionia uses departmental overhead rates.
In Department A, overhead is applied at the rate of $3 per direct labor hour.
In Department B, overhead is applied at the rate of $7 per machine hour.
3. Compute the total cost of Job 9-601
4. Compute the per-unit manufacturing cost for job 9-601
3. Compute the total cost of Job 9-601.
4. Compute the per-unit manufacturing cost for Job 9-601.

11 JOURNAL ENTRIES
Garrity, Inc. uses a job-order costing system. During the month of May, the following transactions occurred:
a. Purchased materials on account for $27,800.
b. Requisitioned materials totaling $21,000 for use in production. Of the total
$9,300 was for Job 58, $6,900 for Job 59, and the remainder for Job 60.
c. Incurred direct labor for the month of $27,000, with an average wage of $15 per
hour. Job 58 used 800 hours; Job 59, 600 hours; and Job 60, 400 hours.
d. Incurred and paid actual overhead of $15,500 (credit Various Payables).
e. Charged overhead to production at the rate of $7.50 per direct labor hour.
f. Completed and transferred Jobs 58 and 59 to Finished Goods.
g. Sold Job 57 (see beginning balance of Finished Goods) and Job 58 to their respective clients on account
for a price of cost plus 40 percent.
Beginning balances as of May 1 were:
Materials $5,170
Work in Process 0
Finished Goods (Job 58) 31,400
Required:
1. Prepare the journal entries for transactions (a) through (g).Prepare brief job-order cost sheets for Jobs 58,
59, and 60.
2. Calculate the ending balance of Raw Materials.
3. Calculate the ending balance of Work in Process.
4. Calculate the ending balance of Finished Goods.
12 DIRECT METHOD OF SUPPORT DEPARTMENT COST ALLOCATION
Dexter Company is divided into two operating divisions: Battery and Small Motors. The company allocates

power and human resources costs to each operating division using the direct method. Power costs are
allocated on the basis of the number of machine hours and human resources costs on the basis of the number
of employees. Support department cost allocations using the direct method are based on the following data:
Support Departments
Operating Divisions
Human
Small
Power
Resources
Battery
Motors
Overhead costs
$100,000 $205,000
$180,000
$93,500
Machine hours
2,000
2,000
5,000
3,000
Number of employees
20
30
20
60
Direct labor hours
15,000
80,000
Required:
1. Calculate the allocation ratios for Power and Human Resources. (Carry these calculations out to three
significant digits.)
2. Allocate the support service costs to the producing departments.
3. Assume departmental overhead rates are based on direct labor hours. Calculate the
overhead rate for the Battery Division and for the Small Motors Division. (Round
overhead rates to the nearest cent.)
13 JOB COST, SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Spade Millhone Detective Agency performs investigative work for a variety of clients. Recently, Alban
Insurance Company asked Spade Millhone to investigate a series of suspicious claims for whiplash. In each
case, the claimant was driving on a freeway and was suddenly rear-ended by an Alban-insured client. The
claimants were all driving old, uninsured automobiles. The Alban clients reported that the claimants
suddenly changed lanes in front of them, and the accidents were unavoidable. Alban suspected that these
accidents were the result of insurance fraud. Basically, the claimants cruised the freeways in virtually
worthless cars, attempting to cut in front of expensive late-model cars that would surely be insured. Alban
believed that the injuries were faked.
Rex Spade spent 37 hours shadowing the claimants and taking pictures as necessary. His surveillance
methods located the office of a doctor used by all claimants. He also took pictures of claimants performing
tasks that they had sworn were now impossible to perform due to whiplash injuries. Victoria Millhone spent
48 hours using the Internet to research court records in surrounding states to locate the names of the
claimants and their doctor. She found a pattern of similar insurance claims for each of the claimants.
Spade Millhone Detective Agency bills clients for detective time at $120 per hour. Mileage is charged at
$0.50 per mile. The agency logged in 510 miles on the Alban job. The film and developing amounted to
$120.
Required:
1. Prepare a job-order cost sheet for the Alban job.
2.Why is overhead not specified in the charges? How does Spade Millhone charge clients for the use of
overhead (e.g., the ongoing costs of their officesupplies, paper for notes and reports, telephone,
utilities)?
3.The mileage is tallied from a source document. Design a source document for this use, and make up
data for it that would total the 510 miles driven on the Alban job.

14 CALCULATING ENDING WORK IN PROCESS, INCOME

STATEMENT
Uehler Prosthetics Company produces artificial limbs for individuals. Each prosthetic is unique.
On January 1, three jobs, identified by the name of the person being fitted with the prosthetic, were
in process with the following costs:

Direct materials

Asher

Asher

Wollner

$100

$340

$ 780

Direct
labor
350
700
1,050
Applied
overhead
280
560
840
Total
$730
$1,600
$2,670

During the month of January, two more jobs were started, Johns and Burton. Materials and labor
costs incurred by each job in January are as follows:
Asher
Styne
Wollner
Johns
Burton

$ 600
550
860
1,310
260

$ 300
200
250
1,650
180

Materials Direct Labor

Wollner and Johns prosthetics were completed and sold by January 31.
Required:
1 If overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor dollars, what is the overhead rate?
2 Prepare simple job-order cost sheets for each of the five jobs in process during January.
3 What is the ending balance of Work in Process on January 31? What is the Cost of Goods Sold in
January?
4 Suppose that Uehler Prosthetics Company prices its jobs at cost plus 20 percent. In addition, during
January, marketing and administrative costs of $850 were incurred. Prepare an income statement for
the month of January.
15 OVERHEAD APPLIED TO JOBS, DEPARTMENTAL OVERHEAD RATES
Watson Products Inc. uses a normal job-order costing system.
Currently, a lantwide overhead rate based on machine hours is used.
Marlon Burke, the plant manager, has heard that departmental
overhead rates can offer significantly better cost assignments than a
plantwide rate can offer. Watson has the following data for its two
departments for the coming year:
Overhead costs (expected)
Normal activity (machine hours)

Department A

Department B

$50,000
20,000

$22,000
16,000

Required:
1. Compute a predetermined overhead rate for the plant as a whole based on machine hours.
2. Compute predetermined overhead rates for each department using machine hours. (Carry your
calculations out to three decimal places.)
3. Job 73 used 20 machine hours from Department A and 50 machine hours from Department B. Job 74
used 50 machine hours from Department A and 20 machine hours from Department B. Compute the
overhead cost assigned to each job using the plantwide rate computed in Requirement 1. Repeat the
computation using the departmental rates found in Requirement 2. Which of the two approaches gives
the fairer assignment? Why?
4. Repeat Requirement 3, assuming the expected overhead cost for Department B is $40,000 (not $22,000).
For this company, would you recommend departmental rates over a plantwide rate?

16 OVERHEAD RATES, UNIT COSTS

Xanning Company manufactures specialty tools to customer order. There are three producing departments.
Departmental information on budgeted overhead and various activity measures for the coming year is as
follows:

Welding Assembly Finishing

Estimated overhead
Direct labor hours
Direct labor cost
Machine hours

$200,000
4,500
$90,000
5,000

$22,000
10,000
$150,000
1,000

$250,000
6,000
$120,000
2,000

Currently, overhead is applied on the basis of machine hours

using a plantwide rate. However, Janine, the controller, has been
wondering whether it might be worthwhile to use departmental
overhead rates. She has analyzed the overhead costs and drivers for
the various departments and decided that Welding and Finishing
should base their overhead rates on machine hours and that
Assembly should base its overhead rate on direct labor hours.
Janine has been asked to prepare bids for two jobs with the following information:
Job 1
Direct materials
Direct labor cost
Direct labor hours:
Welding
Assembly
Finishing
Number of machine hours:
Welding
Assembly
Finishing

Job 2

$4,500
$1,000

$8,600
$2,000

10
60
30

20
20
80

50
40
110

30
5
165

The typical bid price includes a 30 percent markup over full manufacturing cost.
Required:
1. Calculate a plantwide rate for Xanning Company based on
machine hours. What is the bid price of each job using this rate?
2. Calculate departmental overhead rates for the producing
departments. What is the bid price of each job using these rates?
(Round all answers to the nearest dollar.)
17 CALCULATE JOB COST AND USE IT TO CALCULATE PRICE
Suppose that back in the 1970s, Steve was asked to build speakers for two friends. The first friend, Jan,
needed a speaker for her band. The second friend, Ed, needed a speaker built into the back of his hatchback
automobile.
Steve figured the following costs for each:
Jans
Eds
Job
Job
Materials
Labor hours

$50
10

$75
20

Steve knew that Jans job would be easier, since he had experience in building the type of speaker she
needed. Her job would not require any special equipment or specialized fitting. Eds job, on the other hand,
required specialized design and precise fitting. Steve thought he might need to build a mock-up of the
speaker first, to fit it into the space. In addition, he might have to add to his tool collection to complete the

job. Normally, Steve figured a wage rate of $6 per hour and charged 20 percent of labor and materials as an
overhead rate.
Required:
1 Prepare job-order cost sheets for the two jobs, showing total cost.
2 Which cost do you think is more likely to be accurate? How might Steve build in some of the uncertainty
of Eds job into a budgeted cost?

18 UNIT COST, ENDING WORK IN PROCESS, JOURNAL ENTRIES

During August, Pamell Inc. worked on two jobs. Data relating to these two jobs follow:
Units in each order
Units sold
Materials requisitioned
Direct labor hours
Direct labor cost

Job 64
50
50
$1,240
410
$6,150

Job 65
100

$985
583
$8,745

Overhead is assigned on the basis of direct labor hours at a rate of $12. During August, Job 64 was
completed and transferred to Finished Goods. Job 65 was the only unfinished job at the end of the month.
Required:
1 Calculate the per-unit cost of Job 64.
2 Compute the ending balance in the work-in-process account.
3 Prepare the journal entries reflecting the completion and sale on account of Job 64. The selling price
is 160 percent of cost.

19 JOURNAL ENTRIES, JOB COSTS

The following transactions occurred during the month of April for Kearney Company:
a. Purchased materials costing $3,000 on account.
b. Requisitioned materials totaling $1,700 for use in production, $500 for Job 443
and the remainder for Job 444.
c. Recorded 50 hours of direct labor on Job 443 and 100 hours on Job 444 for the
month. Direct laborers are paid at the rate of $8 per hour.
d. Applied overhead using a plantwide rate of $7.50 per direct labor hour.
e. Incurred and paid in cash actual overhead for the month of $1,230.
f. Completed and transferred Job 443 to Finished Goods.
g. Sold on account Job 442, which had been completed and transferred to Finished
Goods in March, for cost ($2,000) plus 25 percent.
Required:
1 Prepare journal entries for transactions (a) through (e).
2 Prepare job-order cost sheets for Jobs 443 and 444. Prepare journal entries for transactions (f) and
(g).
3 Prepare a statement of cost of goods manufactured for April. Assume that the beginning balance in
the raw materials account was $1,400 and that the beginning balance in the work-in-process account
was zero.

20 PREDETERMINED OVERHEAD RATES, VARIANCES, COST FLOWS

Barrymore Costume Company, located in New York City, sews costumes for plays and musicals. Barrymore
considers itself primarily a service firm, as it never produces costumes without a pre-existing order and only

purchases materials to the specifications of the particular job. Any finished goods ending inventory is
temporary and is zeroed out as soon as the show producer pays for the order. Overhead is applied on the
basis of direct labor cost. During the first quarter of the year, the following activity took place in each of the
accounts listed:
Work in
Process

Bal. DL

17,000
80,000
140,000
40,000

Finished
Goods

Complete
245,000

OH DM

Bal.
Complete

40,000
245,000

Sold

210,000

Bal.
75,000

Bal.

Cost of
Goods Sold

32,000
Over
head
138,500

140,000

head

210,000
Cost of

Bal.

1,500
Goods Sold

Required:
1 Assuming that overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor cost, what was the overhead rate used
during the first quarter of the year?
2 What was the applied overhead for the first quarter? The actual overhead? The under- or overapplied
overhead?
3 What was the cost of the goods manufactured for the quarter?
4 Assume that the overhead variance is closed to the cost of goods sold account. Prepare the journal
entry to close out the overhead control account. What is the adjusted balance in Cost of Goods Sold?
5 For Job 32, identify the costs incurred for direct materials, direct labor, and overhead.

21 OVERHEAD APPLICATION, JOURNAL ENTRIES, JOB COST

At the beginning of the year, Paxton Company budgeted overhead of $180,000 as well as 15,000 direct labor
hours. During the year, Job K456 was completed with the following information: direct materials cost,
$2,340; direct labor cost, $3,600. The average wage for Paxton Company employees is $10 per hour.
By the end of the year, 15,400 direct labor hours had actually been worked, and Pax-ton Company
incurred the following actual overhead costs for the year:
Equipment lease
Depreciation on building
Indirect labor
Utilities
Other overhead

5,000
20,000
100,000
15,000
45,000

Required:
1 Calculate the overhead rate for the year.

2
3
4
5

Calculate the total cost of Job K456.

Prepare the journal entries to record actual overhead and to apply overhead to production for the
year.
Is overhead over-applied or under-applied? By how much?
Assuming that the normal cost of goods sold for the year is $700,000, what is the adjusted cost of
goods sold?

22 JOURNAL ENTRIES, T-ACCOUNTS

Lowder Inc. builds custom conveyor systems for warehouses and distribution centers. During the month of
July, the following occurred:
a. Purchased materials on account for $42,630.
b. Requisitioned materials totaling $27,000 for use in production: $12,500 for Job
703 and the remainder for Job 704.
c. Recorded direct labor payroll for the month of $26,320 with an average wage of
$14 per hour. Job 703 required 780 direct labor hours; Job 704 required 1,100
direct labor hours.
d. Incurred and paid actual overhead of $19,950.
e. Charged overhead to production at the rate of $10 per direct labor hour.
f Completed Job 703 and transferred it to finished goods.
g. Kept Job 704, which was started during July, in process at the end of the month.
h. Sold Job 700, which had been completed in May, on account for cost plus 30 percent.
Beginning balances as of July 1 were:
Raw Materials
Work in Process (for Job 703)
Finished Goods (for Job 700)

$ 6,070
10,000
6,240

Required:
1
Prepare the journal entries for events (a) through (e).
2
Prepare simple job-order cost sheets for Jobs 703 and 704.
3
Prepare the journal entries for events (f) and (h).
4
Calculate the ending balances of the following:
a.
Raw Materials
b.
Work in Process
c.
Finished Goods

23 SUPPORT DEPARTMENT COST ALLOCATION

MedServices Inc. is divided into two operating departments: Laboratory and Tissue Pathology. The company
allocates delivery and accounting costs to each operating department. Delivery costs include the costs of a
fleet of vans and drivers that drive throughout the state each day to clinics and doctors offices to pick up
samples and deliver them to the centrally located laboratory and tissue pathology offices. Delivery costs are
allocated on the basis of number of samples. Accounting costs are allocated on the basis of the number of
transactions processed. No effort is made to separate fixed and variable costs; however, only budgeted costs
are allocated. Allocations for the coming year are based on the following data:
Support Departments
Delivery
Overhead costs
Number of samples
Transactions processed

$240,000

2,000

Accounting
$270,000

200

Producing Departments
Laboratory

Pathology

$345,000
70,200
24,700

$456,000
46,800
13,300

Required:
1. Assign the support department costs by using the direct method.
2. Assign the support department costs by using the sequential method.

24 SUPPORT DEPARTMENT COST ALLOCATION: COMPARISON OF METHODS

OF ALLOCATION
Bender Automotive Works Inc. manufactures a variety of front-end assemblies for automobiles. A front-end
assembly is the unified front of an automobile that includes the headlamps, fender, and surrounding
metal/plastic. Bender has two producing departments: Drilling and Assembly. Usually, the front-end
assemblies are ordered in batches of 100.
Two support departments provide support for Benders operating units: Maintenance and Power.
Budgeted data for the coming quarter follow. The company does not separate fixed and variable costs.
Support Departments
Maintenance Power

Producing Departments
Drilling Assembly

Overhead costs

$320,000 $400,000

$163,000 $90,000

Machine hours
Kilowatt-hours
Direct labor hours

22,500
40,000

5,000 40,000

30,000 7,500
36,000 324,000

The predetermined overhead rate for Drilling is computed on the basis of machine hours; direct labor
hours are used for Assembly.
Recently, a truck manufacturer requested a bid on a three-year contract that would supply front-end
assemblies to a nearby factory. The prime costs for a batch of 100 front-end assemblies are $1,817. It takes
two machine hours to produce a batch in the drilling department and 50 direct labor hours to assemble the
100 front-end assemblies in the assembly department.
Benders policy is to bid full manufacturing cost, plus 15 percent.
Required:
1. Prepare bids for Bender Automotive Works by using each of the
following allocation
methods:
a. Direct method.
b. Sequential method.
2. Which method most accurately reflects the cost of producing the
front-end assem
blies? Why?
25 OVERHEAD ASSIGNMENT: ACTUAL AND NORMAL ACTIVITY COMPARED
Reynolds Printing Company specializes in wedding announcements. Reynolds uses an actual job-order
costing system. An actual overhead rate is calculated at the end of each month using actual direct labor hours
and overhead for the month. Once the actual cost of a job is determined, the customer is billed at actual cost
plus 50 percent.
During April, Mrs. Lucky, a good friend of owner Jane Reynolds, ordered three sets of wedding
announcements to be delivered May 10, June 10, and July 10, respectively. Reynolds scheduled production
for each order on May 7, June 7, and July 7, respectively. The orders were assigned job numbers 115, 116,
and 117, respectively.
Reynolds assured Mrs. Lucky that she would attend each of her daughters weddings. Out of sympathy and
friendship, she also offered a lower price. Instead of cost plus 50 percent, she gave her a special price of cost
plus 25 percent. Additionally, she agreed to wait until the final wedding to bill for the three jobs.
On August 15, Reynolds asked her accountant to bring her the completed job-order cost sheets for Jobs 115,

116, and 117. She also gave instructions to lower the price as had been agreed upon. The cost sheets
revealed the following information:
Job 115
Cost of direct materials
Cost of direct labor (5 hours)
Cost of overhead
Total cost
Total price
Number of announcements

Job 116

Job 117

$250.00
25.00
200.00
$475.00

$250.00
25.00
400.00
$675.00

$250.00
25.00
400.00
$675.00

$593.75

$843.75

$843.75

500

500

500

Reynolds could not understand why the overhead costs assigned to Jobs 116 and 117 were so much higher
than those for Job 115. She asked for an overhead cost summary sheet for the months of May, June, and
July, which showed that actual overhead costs were $20,000 each month. She also discovered that direct
labor hours worked on all jobs were 500 hours in May and 250 hours each in June and July.
Required:
1 How do you think Mrs. Lucky will feel when she receives the bill for the three sets of wedding
announcements?
2 Explain how the overhead costs were assigned to each job.
3 Assume that Reynoldss average activity is 500 hours per month and that the company usually
experiences overhead costs of $240,000 each year. Can you recommend a better way to assign
overhead costs to jobs? Recompute the cost of each job and its price given your method of overhead
cost assignment. Which method do you think is best? Why?
26 ASSIGNING OVERHEAD TO JOBSETHICAL ISSUES
Tonya Martin, CMA and controller of the Parts Division of Gunderson Inc., was meeting with Doug Adams,
manager of the division. The topic of discussion was the assignment of overhead costs to jobs and their
impact on the divisions pricing decisions. Their conversation was as follows:
Tonya: Doug, as you know, about 25 percent of our business is based on government contracts, with the
other 75 percent based on jobs from private sources won through bidding. During the last several years, our
private business has declined. We have been losing more bids than usual. After some careful investigation, I
have concluded that we are overpricing some jobs because of improper assignment of overhead costs. Some
jobs are also being underpriced. Unfortunately, the jobs being overpriced are coming from our highervolume, labor-intensive products; thus, we are losing business.
Doug: I think I understand. Jobs associated with our high-volume products are being assigned more
overhead than they should be receiving. Then, when we add our standard 40 percent markup, we end up with
a higher price than our competitors, who assign costs more accurately.
Tonya: Exactly. We have two producing departments, one labor-intensive and the other machine-intensive.
The labor-intensive department generates much less overhead than the machine-intensive department.
Furthermore, virtually all of our high-volume jobs are labor-intensive. We have been using a plantwide rate
based on direct labor hours to assign overhead to all jobs. As a result, the high-volume, labor-intensive jobs
receive a greater share of the machine-intensive departments overhead than they deserve. This problem can
be greatly alleviated by switching to departmental overhead rates. For example, an average high-volume job
would be assigned $100,000 of overhead using a plantwide rate and only $70,000 using departmental rates.
The change would lower our bidding price on high-volume jobs by an average of $42,000 per job. By
increasing the accuracy of our product costing, we can make better pricing decisions and win back much of
our private-sector business.
Doug: Sounds good. When can you implement the change in overhead rates?
Tonya: It wont take long. I can have the new system working within four to six weekscertainly by
the start of the new fiscal year.
Doug: Hold it. I just thought of a possible complication. As I recall, most of our government contract
work is done in the labor-intensive department. This new overhead assignment scheme will push down the
cost on the government jobs, and we will lose revenues. They pay us full cost plus our standard markup. This
business is not threatened by our current costing procedures, but we cant switch our rates for only the

private business. Government auditors would question the lack of consistency in our costing procedures.
Tonya: You do have a point. I thought of this issue also. According to my estimates, we will gain more
revenues from the private sector than we will lose from our government contracts. Besides, the costs of our
government jobs are distorted; in effect, we are overcharging the government.
Doug: They dont know that and never will unless we switch our overhead assignment procedures. I
think I have the solution. Officially, lets keep our plantwide overhead rate. All of the official records will
reflect this overhead costing approach for both our private and government business. Unofficially, I want you
to develop a separate set of books that can be used to generate the information we need to prepare
competitive bids for our private-sector business.
Required:
1 Do you believe that the solution proposed by Doug is ethical? Explain.
2 Suppose that Tonya decides that Dougs solution is not right and
objects strongly. Further suppose that, despite Tonyas
objections, Doug insists strongly on implementing the action.
What should Tonya do?

SOLUZIONI
Esercizio 1

1. Predetermined overhead rate

= 0.75, or 75% of direct labor cost

2. Overhead applied to December production = 0.75 $38,900 = $29,175

Esercizio 2
1. Applied overhead

= Overhead rate Actual direct labor cost

= 0.75 $607,200 = $455,400

Actual overhead

$ 456,500

Applied overhead
Overhead variance

455,400
$

1,100

2. Unadjusted COGS

underapplied

$890,000

Add: Underapplied overhead

1,100

Adjusted COGS

$891,100

Esercizio 3
1. Since the predetermined overhead rate is not given, it must be calculated from BWIP amounts using
either Job 44 or Job 45. Using Job 44,
Predetermined overhead rate

=
=
= 0.625, or 62.5%

(The predetermined overhead rate using Job 45 is identical.)

2.
Job 44
Beginning balance, June 1
Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Total, June 30

Job 45

$6,550
1,500
1,000
625
$9,675

2,800
6,100
2,400
1,500
$12,800

Job 46
$

Job 47

0
800
2,000
1,250
$4,050

0
700
600
375
$1,675

3. By the end of June, Jobs 44, 45, and 47 have been transferred out of Work in Process. Thus, the ending
balance in Work in Process consists of Job 46.
Work in process, June 30

$4,050

While three jobs (44, 45, and 47) were transferred out of Work in Process and into Finished Goods
during June, only two jobs remain (Jobs 44 and 47).
Finished goods, June 1

Job 44

9,675

Job 47

1,675

Finished goods, June 30

$11,350

4. One job, Job 45, was sold during June.

Cost of goods sold

$12,800

Esercizio 4
1. Allocation ratios for S1 based on number of employees:
Cutting

= = 0.30

Sewing

= = 0.70

Allocation ratios for S2 based on number of maintenance hours:

Cutting

= = 0.80

Sewing

= = 0.20

2.

Support Departments
S1
Direct costs
Allocate:
S1
S2
Total

Esercizio 5

S2
180,000

(180,000)
0

Cutting
150,000

$122,000

(150,000)
0

54,000
120,000
$296,000

Producing Departments

Sewing
$

90,500
126,000
30,000
$246,500

1. Allocation ratios:
Shaping

Firing

Kilowatt-hours
Square feet
Direct labor hours

0.30
0.75
0.40

0.70
0.25
0.60

2. Cost assignment:
Shaping
Direct overhead costs

Firing
$

75,000

Power:
(0.30 $90,000)
(0.70 $90,000)

27,000

General factory:
(0.75 $167,000)
(0.25 $167,000)

125,250

Human resources:
(0.40 $84,000)
(0.60 $84,000)

33,600

$234,000

63,000

41,750

$260,850

50,400
$389,150

Esercizio 6
a. Auto manufacturinga shop that builds autos from scratch (the way Rolls Royce used to build cars, or a
car that can be built from kits) would use job-order costing. Large automobile manufacturers use process
costing. (While the customer may think the car is being built to order when selected among options,
actually, the manufacturer waits until enough of the same orders are received to build a run of virtually
identical cars.)
b. Dental servicesbasic dental services use job-order costing, but denturists (who make only dentures)
can use process costing. (It is important to recognize that while the dentures themselves are uniquely
shaped to fit each patient, the costs involved do not differ from patient to patient.)
c. Auto repaira general automobile repair shop uses job-order costing. However, a shop devoted to only
one type of service or repair (e.g., oil change) can use process costing yet price the cost of the number of
quarts of oil used for each customer.
d. Costume makinga small tailor shop would use job-order costing. However, a large costume
manufacturer that sews a certain number of costume designs would use process costing.

Esercizio 7
1. Assembly department overhead rate

=
= $4 per direct labor hour

Testing department overhead rate

= $1.50 per machine hour

2.

Assembly department applied overhead = $4 13,000 = $52,000

Testing department applied overhead = $1.50 13,050 = $19,575

3.

Assembly Department
Actual overhead ...............................
Applied overhead .............................
Overhead variance .....................

Testing Department

$53,000
52,000
1,000

$15,500
19,575
(4,075)

Assembly department has underapplied overhead of $1,000.

Testing department has overapplied overhead of $4,075.

Esercizio 8
1.
Beginning balance
Direct materials
Direct labor

Job 877

Job 878

Job 879

Job 880

$20,520
13,960
13,800

$7,000
10,000

$350
1,500

$4,800
4,000

2. Applied overhead in October for:

Job 877 = $13,800 0.85 = $11,730
Job 878 = $10,000 0.85 = $8,500
Job 879 = $1,500 0.85 = $1,275
Job 880 = $4,000 0.85 = $3,400
3. Work in Process, October 31:
Job 877
Job 879
Job 880
Total

$60,010
3,125
12,200
$75,335

4. Cost of Job 878 = $7,000 + $10,000 + $8,500 = $25,500

Price of Job 878 = $25,500 + 0.5($25,500) = $38,250

Esercizio 9

1.

Job 73
Balance, July 1
Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Total

8,450
7,450
12,000
8,000
$35,900

Job 74

Job 75

$12,300
10,500
7,000
$29,800

$16,150
23,000
20,000
$59,150

2. Work in Process, July 31 = Job 74 = $29,800

3. Finished Goods:
Beginning balance
Job 75 (transferred in)
Job 70 (sold)
Ending balance, July 31
4. Cost of Goods Sold

49,000
59,150
(19,000)
89,150

= Job 70 + Job 73
= $19,000 + $35,900
= $54,900

Sales [$54,900 + (0.30 $54,900)] ........................................

Cost of goods sold ..................................................................
Gross margin.....................................................................
Less:
Variable marketing (0.1 $71,370) .................................
Fixed marketing................................................................
Administrative expense ....................................................
Operating income ....................................................................

$71,370
54,900
$16,470
$7,137
2,000
4,800
$

13,937
2,533

Esercizio 10

1. Direct materials .......................................................................

Direct labor:
Department A ...................................................................
Department B....................................................................
Overhead ($12 7,000 DLH) .................................................
Total manufacturing costs ................................................

18,000

42,000
84,000
144,000

$36,000
6,000

2. Unit cost = = $14.40

3. Direct materials .......................................................................
Direct labor:
Department A ...................................................................
Department B....................................................................
Overhead:
Department A ($3 6,000) ..............................................
Department B ($7 1,200)...............................................
Total manufacturing costs .......................................................
4. Unit cost = = $8.64

$18,000
$36,000
6,000

42,000
18,000
8,400
$86,400

Esercizio 11

1.

a..................................................................Raw Materials

27,800

........................................................................................... Accounts Payable

27,800

e.

b...............................................................Work in Process
...........................................................................................
21,000

Raw Materials

21,000

c...............................................................Work in Process
...........................................................................................
27,000

Wages Payable

27,000

d............................................................ Overhead Control

........................................................................................... Various Payables
15,500
Work in Process
13,500

15,500

........................................................................................... Overhead Control

13,500
....................................Total direct labor hours = = 1,800
...................Applied overhead = 1,800 $7.50 = $13,500
f. ...............................................................Finished Goods
........................................................................................... Work in Process
47,700

47,700

g..........................................................Cost of Goods Sold

...........................................................................................
58,700

58,700
Finished Goods

......................................................... Accounts Receivable

...........................................................................................
82,180

Sales Revenue

2.

82,180

Job 58
Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Total cost

3. Raw Materials:
Beginning balance
Purchases
Direct materials
Ending balance

9,300
12,000
6,000
$27,300

Job 60

6,900
9,000
4,500
$20,400

4,800
6,000
3,000
$13,800

5,170
27,800
(21,000)
11,970

4. Work in Process:
Beginning balance...................................................................
Direct materials .......................................................................
Direct labor..............................................................................
Applied overhead ....................................................................
Jobs completed:
Job 58................................................................................
Job 59................................................................................
Ending balance ........................................................................

Esercizio 12

Job 59

$27,300
20,400
$

0
21,000
27,000
13,500
(47,700)
13,800

5. Finished Goods:
Beginning balance...................................................................
Jobs transferred in:
Job 58................................................................................
Job 59................................................................................
Jobs sold:
Job 57................................................................................
Job 58................................................................................
Ending balance ........................................................................

31,400

$27,300
20,400

47,700

$31,400
27,300

(58,700)
20,400

Esercizio 13
1. Overhead rate = = $6.65/per DLH
2.

Job 210
Balance, July 1
Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Total cost

32,780 $
25,500
60,000
26,600
$144,880

3. Ending balance in Work in Process

4. Cost of Goods Sold

Job 211

Job 212

51,770 $
39,800
28,500
12,635
$132,705

Job 213

29,600 $
24,450
41,500
17,955
$113,505

Job 214

0
$
13,600
23,000
9,975
$46,575

0
18,420
21,300
9,310
$49,030

= Job 211 + Job 213 + Job 214

= $132,705 + $46,575 + $49,030
= $228,310

= Job 210 + Job 212

= $144,880 + $113,505 = $258,385

Esercizio 14
1. Cost of Alban job:
Professional time (85 hours @ $120)
Mileage (510 miles @ $0.50)
Photographs
Total

$10,200
255
120
$10,575

2. Overhead is included in the rate for professional time. This is easier for professionals than to calculate a
separate overhead rate and charge it to clients. In effect, Spade Millhone charges a conversion cost rate,
not a labor rate, to its clients.
3.

Answers may vary. The following is one example.

Rex Spade Mileage Log
Date
7/8

BeginningEnding
Client Mileage Mileage
Alban

56,780

56,815

. Total
Destination
Ofc. to claimant #1,
to Dr. Phony, to
claimant #2, to ofc.

Miles
35

7/9

Alban

56,815

56,903

Ofc. to claimant #3,

to claimant #4, to ofc.

88

7/10

Alban

56,903 57,078

Ofc. to witness #3,

to client, to ofc.

175

7/11

Alban

57,078 57,290

Ofc. to claimant #2,

to claimant #4, to ofc.

212

Note: Separate mileage logs are kept by Rex Spade and Victoria Millhone. Then, relevant amounts are
transferred to cost sheets (or folders) for each client.

Esercizio 15
1. Overhead rate = = 0.80 times direct labor dollars
(This rate was calculated using information from the Asher job; however, the Styne and Wollner jobs
would give the same answer.)
2.
Beginning WIP
Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Total

Asher
$ 730
600
300
240
$1,870

Styne
$1,600
550
200
160
$2,510

Wollner
$2,670
860
250
200
$3,980

Johns
$ 0
1,310
1,650
1,320
$4,280

Burton
0
260
180
144
$584

Note: This is just one way of setting up the job-order cost sheets. You might prefer to keep the details on
the materials, labor, and overhead in beginning inventory costs.
3. Since the Wollner and Johns jobs were completed, the others must still be in process. Therefore, the
ending balance in Work in Process is the sum of the costs of the Asher, Styne, and Burton jobs.
Asher
Styne
Burton
Ending WIP

$1,870
2,510
584
$4,964

Cost of Goods Sold = Wollner Job + Johns Job = $3,980 + $4,280 = $8,260
4. Uehler Prosthetics Company
Income Statement
For the Month Ended January 31
Sales (1.2 $8,260).....................................................................................
of goods sold.............................................................................................................
............................................................................................... Gross margin
Marketing and administrative expenses ......................................................
........................................................................................Operating income

Esercizio 16
1. OH rate = = $2 per machine hour
2. Department A: = $2.50 per machine hour

$9,912 Cost
8,260
$1,652
850
$
802

Department B: = $1.375 per machine hour

3.

Job 73

Job 74

Plantwide:
70 $2 = $140

70 $2 = $140

Departmental:
20 $2.50
50 $1.375

50.00
68.75
$118.75

50 $2.50
20 $1.375

$125.00
27.50
$152.50

Department A appears to be more overhead intensive, so jobs spending more time in Department A
ought to receive more overhead. Thus, departmental rates provide more accuracy.
4. Plantwide rate:

= $2.50

Department B:

= $2.50

Job 73

Job 74

Plantwide:
70 $2.50 = $175

70 $2.50 = $175

Departmental:
20 $2.50
50 $2.50

$ 50
125
$175

50 $2.50
20 $2.50

$125
50
$175

Assuming that machine hours is a good cost driver, the departmental rates reveal that overhead
consumption is the same in each department. In this case, there is no need for departmental rates, and a
plantwide rate is sufficient.

Esercizio 17
1. Overhead rate = = $59 per machine hour
Direct materials ..............................................................................
Direct labor.....................................................................................
Overhead ($59 200 machine hours)............................................
Total manufacturing cost .........................................................
Plus 30% markup ...........................................................................
Bid price ..................................................................................

Job 1
$
4,500
1,000
11,800
$17,300
5,190
$22,490

Job 2
$

8,600
2,000
11,800
$22,400
6,720
$29,120

2. Welding overhead rate = = $40 per machine hour

Assembly overhead rate = = $2.20 per DLH
Finishing overhead rate = = $125 per machine hour
Job 1
Direct materials ..............................................................................

Job 2
4,500

8,600

Direct labor.....................................................................................
Overhead:
Welding ($40 50); ($40 30) ..............................................
Assembly ($2.20 60); ($2.20 20) ......................................
Finishing ($125 110); ($125 165) .....................................
Total manufacturing cost................................................................
Plus 30% markup ...........................................................................
Bid price ..................................................................................

1,000

2,000

2,000
132
13,750
$21,382
6,415
$27,797

1,200
44
20,625
$32,469
9,741
$42,210

Esercizio 18
1.
Materials..................................................................................
Direct labor..............................................................................
Applied overhead
0.20 ($50 + $60) ............................................................
0.20 ($75 + $120) ..........................................................
Total ........................................................................................

Jans Job

Eds Job

$ 50
60

$ 75
120

22
39
$234

$132

2. Since Jans job is more like the jobs Steve is used to doing, her costs are likely to be more accurate.
Clearly, Steve is unsure just how to cost Eds job. If he expects to get more use from the tools he buys
for Eds job, then he can absorb them into his overhead rate. If not, perhaps they should be added to the
cost of Eds job as a part of materials.

Problem 1652
1. Job 64:
Direct materials
Direct labor
Overhead ($12 410)
Total cost

1,240
6,150
4,920
$12,310

Unit cost = = $246.20

2. Ending Work in Process
3.

=
=

Cost of Job 65
$985 + $8,745 + ($12 583) = $16,726

Finished Goods .................................................................

.................................................................Work in Process
12,310

12,310

Cost of Goods Sold ...........................................................

..................................................................Finished Goods
12,310

12,310

Accounts Receivable.........................................................
....................................................................Sales Revenue
19,696
(160% $12,310 = $19,696)

19,696

Esercizio 19

1.

a..................................................................Raw Materials
........................................................................................... Accounts Payable
3,000

3,000

b...............................................................Work in Process
...........................................................................................
1,700

1,700
Raw Materials

c..................................Work in Process [$8 (50 + 100)]

...........................................................................................
1,200

Wages Payable

1,200

d........................................Work in Process ($7.50 150)

........................................................................................... Overhead Control
1,125

1,125

e............................................................ Overhead Control

...........................................................................................
1,230

1,230

2.

Job 443
Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Total

Cash
Job 444

500
400
375
$1,275

Direct materials
Direct labor
Applied overhead
Total

$1,200
800
750
$2,750

f. ...............................................................Finished Goods
........................................................................................... Work in Process
1,275

1,275

g..........................................................Cost of Goods Sold

...........................................................................................
2,000

2,000
Finished Goods

......................................................... Accounts Receivable

...........................................................................................
2,500

Sales

3.

2,500

Kearney Company
Schedule of Cost of Goods Manufactured
For the Month Ended April 30
Direct materials:
Beginning raw materials inventory...................................
Purchases of raw materials ...............................................
Total raw materials available .....................................
Ending raw materials ........................................................
Raw materials used...........................................................
Direct labor..............................................................................
Overhead .................................................................................
Less: Underapplied overhead..................................................
Overhead applied ....................................................................
Current manufacturing costs.............................................
Add: Beginning work in process.............................................
Total manufacturing costs ................................................
Less: Ending work in process .................................................
Cost of goods manufactured .............................................

Esercizio 20

$1,400
3,000
$4,400
2,700
$1,700
1,200
$1,230
105
1,125
$4,025
0
$4,025
2,750
$1,275

1. Applied overhead
=
$140,000 =
Overhead rate =

Direct labor cost Overhead rate

$80,000 Overhead rate
1.75, or 175% of direct labor cost

2. Applied overhead
Actual overhead
Overapplied overhead

$140,000
138,500
1,500

3.Direct materials $ 40,000

Direct labor
80,000
Overhead applied 140,000
$260,000
Add: Beginning WIP 17,000
Less: Ending WIP
Cost of goods manufactured
4.

(32,000)
$245,000

Overhead Control..............................................................
............................................................Cost of Goods Sold
1,500

1,500

Adjusted Cost of Goods Sold:

$210,000
(1,500)
$208,500
5.

Direct materials ($32,000 $10,000 $17,500).........................................

Direct labor (1,000 $10) ...........................................................................
Overhead applied (175% $10,000)...........................................................
...............................................................................Ending work in process

4,500
10,000
17,500
$32,000

2,340
3,600
4,320*
$10,260

Esercizio 21
1. Overhead rate = = $12 per direct labor hour
2.

Direct materials............................................................................................
Direct labor ..................................................................................................
Applied overhead.........................................................................................
.....................................................................................................Total cost
*$4,320 = $12

3.

Overhead Control 185,000

.................................................................... Lease Payable
5,000
................................................ Accumulated Depreciation
20,000
.................................................................. Wages Payable
100,000
................................................................ Utilities Payable
15,000
...................................................................Other Payables
45,000
Work in Process ($12 15,400) .......................................

184,800

.............................................................. Overhead Control

184,800
4.

Actual overhead...........................................................................................
Applied overhead.........................................................................................
............................................................................... Underapplied overhead

$185,000
184,800
$
200

5.

Normal cost of goods sold ...........................................................................

Add: Underapplied overhead.......................................................................
........................................................................ Adjusted cost of goods sold

$700,000
200
$700,200

Esercizio 22
1.

a..................................................................Raw Materials
........................................................................................... Accounts Payable
42,630

42,630

b...............................................................Work in Process
...........................................................................................
27,000

27,000
Raw Materials

c...............................................................Work in Process
...........................................................................................
26,320

Wages Payable

d............................................................ Overhead Control

...........................................................................................
19,950

Cash

26,320

19,950

e...............................................................Work in Process
........................................................................................... Overhead Control
18,800
2.

18,800

Job 703:
Beginning balance, WIP
Direct materials
Direct labor
Overhead applied
Total

$10,000
12,500
10,920
7,800
$41,220

Job 704:
Direct materials
Direct labor
Overhead applied
Total
3.

$14,500
15,400
11,000
$40,900

f. ...............................................................Finished Goods
........................................................................................... Work in Process
41,220
h..........................................................Cost of Goods Sold
...........................................................................................
6,240
......................................................... Accounts Receivable
...........................................................................................
8,112

41,220

6,240
Finished Goods
8,112
Sales

4. a. Raw Materials:
Beginning balance
Add: Purchases
Less: Materials requisitioned
Ending balance

6,070
42,630
(27,000)
21,700

b. Work in Process:
Beginning balance
Add: Materials requisitioned
Direct labor
Overhead applied
Less: Jobs completed
Ending balance

10,000
27,000
26,320
18,800
(41,220)
40,900

c. Finished Goods:
Beginning balance
Add: Jobs completed
Less: Jobs sold
Ending balance

6,240
41,220
(6,240)
41,220

Esercizio 23
1. Direct method:
Proportion of:

Laboratory

Number of samples
Transactions processed

Pathology

0.60
0.65

Direct costs
Delivery:
(0.60 $240,000)
(0.40 $240,000)
Accounting:
(0.65 $270,000)
(0.35 $270,000)
Total

0.40
0.35
$345,000

$456,000

144,000
96,000
175,500
$664,500

94,500
$646,500

2. Sequential method:
Delivery
Transactions
Number of samples
Direct costs
Accounting:
(0.0500 $270,000)
(0.6175 $270,000)
(0.3325 $270,000)
Delivery:
(0.6000 $253,500)
(0.4000 $253,500)
Total

Esercizio 24

Accounting

0.0500

240,000 $
13,500

(152,100)
(101,400)
0
$

Laboratory

Pathology

0.6175
0.6000

0.3325
0.4000

270,000

$345,000

(13,500)
(166,725)
(89,775)

166,725

$456,000

89,775
152,100

$663,825

101,400
$647,175

1.

a. Direct method:
Drilling
Machine hours
Kilowatt-hours

0.80
0.10

Maintenance:
(0.80 $320,000)
(0.20 $320,000)

Assembly:

64,000

40,000
360,000
90,000
$514,000

163,000
$459,000

= $15.30/machine hour
= $12.85/direct labor hour

Prime costs
Drilling ($15.30 2)
Assembly ($12.85 50)
Total cost
Markup (15%)
Bid price
b.

0.20
0.90

$256,000

Power:
(0.10 $400,000)
(0.90 $400,000)
Direct costs
Total
Drilling:

Assembly

$1,817.00
30.60
642.50
$2,490.10
373.52
$2,863.62

Sequential method: Allocate Power first, then Maintenance

Maintenance
Machine hours
Kilowatt-hours
Direct costs
90,000

0.10
$

(288,000)
(72,000)
0
$

Drilling:

= $16.23/machine hour

Assembly:

= $12.15/direct labor hour

Prime costs
Drilling ($16.23 2)
Assembly ($12.15 50)
Total cost
Markup (15%)
Bid price

Assembly

0.80
0.09
400,000

40,000

Drilling

320,000 $

Power:
(0.10 $400,000)
(0.09 $400,000)
(0.81 $400,000)
Maintenance:
(0.80 $360,000)
(0.20 $360,000)
Total

Power

(40,000)
(36,000)
(324,000)

0.20
0.81
$163,000

36,000
324,000
288,000

$487,000

72,000
$486,000

$1,817.00
32.46
607.50
$2,456.96
368.54
$2,825.50

2. The sequential method is the more accurate because it considers some of the support department
interactions.

Esercizio 25
1. Mrs. Lucky wont like being charged more for one job when the same number and type of
announcements were produced in each job.
2. May: Actual rate = = $40 per hour
Overhead assigned: $40 5 = $200
June and July: Actual rate = = $80 per hour
Overhead assigned: $80 5 = $400
3. Predetermined rate = = $40 per hour
Cost and price of each job:
Direct materials
$250.00
Direct labor
25.00
Overhead (5 $40)
200.00
Total cost
$475.00
Plus 25% markup
118.75
Price
$593.75
Using a predetermined rate will avoid the nonuniform production problem revealed in the first two
requirements and result in a more accurate application of overhead and fairer costing of the summer jobs.

Esercizio 26
1. The solution Doug proposes is not ethical. Although maintaining the current plantwide rate is probably not
illegal, its continuation has one purpose: to extract extra profits from government business. Doug knows
the plantwide rate is not accurately assigning overhead costs to the various jobs and is willing to alter the
assignments on an unofficial basis for purposes of bidding on private-sector jobs. Fundamentally, ethical
behavior is concerned with choosing right over wrong. To knowingly overcharge government for future
business certainly seems wrong. To continue overpricing knowing the new overhead rates would more than
make up for any lost profits from the government sector (through more competitive bidding in the private
sector) is a clear indication of greed. While managers have an obligation to maximize profits, this
obligation must be within ethical boundaries.
2. Tonya should first determine whether or not Gunderson has a corporate code of conduct. She can pursue
the avenues suggested by the code. For example, if Tonya cannot persuade Doug to refrain from
implementing his scheme, she could present her objections to Dougs immediate supervisor. If a
resolution cannot be realized at this level, then Tonya should go to the next higher management level. If
no resolution is possible after appealing to all higher levels, then resignation may be the only remaining
option.