Module 1

INTRODUCTION TO THE COST SYSTEM; JOB ORDER COSTING

Introduction

Management needs prompt cost information in the decision-making process. In any type of organization, be it business,
political, religious or civic, it is imperative for management to be aware not only of its total costs and expenses, but
also of the specific product, department or activity for which they are incurred, costs per unit and per work unit of its
products and services, respectively, and of whether the amounts incurred are in accordance with the financial plans and
standards.

Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this module, students are expected to:

1. Define cost accounting

2. Explain the purpose of cost accounting
3. Compare Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting and Management Accounting
4. Describe the uses of cost data.
5. Examine the different classification of cost
6. Describe the cost system
7. Differentiate job order costing from process costing
8. Identify the major source documents for job order costing
9. Demonstrate the accounting procedures necessary in job order costing
10. Illustrate the journal entries under perpetual and periodic inventory methods

COST DEFINED

- The cash or cash equivalent value sacrificed for goods and services that are expected to bring a current or
future benefit to the organization.
- Expired costs are called expenses. In each period, expenses are deducted from revenues in the income
statement to determine the period’’s profit.
- Loss – a cost that expires without producing any revenue benefit.

COST ACCOUNTING DEFINED

- An area of accounting concerned with cost determination and cost control.

- Following the flow of costs in a business entity, from purchase of materials to final conversion of finished
goods into cash or to rendition of services, cost data are accumulated for the purpose of determining costs per
unit and per work unit and estimating appropriate selling price.
- Cost data are analyzed and reported to management to serve as a basis in the decision making process.

PURPOSES OF COST ACCOUNTING

● Cost determination. This refers to accumulation of cost data by products, processes or services to be able to
arrive at unit cost or cost per work unit*.
● Cost control. Standards are set for costs per unit and per work unit and are subsequently compared with the
figures per actual operations so that remedial measures may be adopted.

Cost accounting facilitates the performance by management of its planning and control functions. Cost standards are
established for materials, labor and factory overhead based on product design, time and motion studies, and analysis
of factory overhead. These standards subsequently serve as bases in measuring performance and as deterrents to
pilferages and unnecessary wastages of materials and inefficiency of manpower.

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Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting and Management Accounting

Cost Accounting Financial Accounting Management Accounting

Supplements financial accounting by Concerned with processing historical and
providing breakdown or details for cost projected economic data of an entity to assist
figures contained in all-purpose financial management in setting up reasonable economic
statements objectives and in making rational decisions
towards the attainment of these objectives
Cost accounting reports are based on cost Financial accounting
data as accumulated in subsidiary ledgers reports are derived
for costs and expenses incurred from postings to the
general ledger
Information is usually for management Information is for both
use internal and external
users
Facilitates management accounting

Differences between Financial accounting and Managerial Accounting

Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting

Users External persons who make financial

Managers who plan for and control an organization
decisions
Time Focus Historical perspective Future emphasis
Verifiability Emphasis on verifiability Emphasis on relevance for planning and control
Precision versus Emphasis on precision Emphasis on timeliness
timeliness
Subject Primary focus is on the whole organization Focuses on segments of an organization
Requirements Must follow GAAP and prescribed formats Need not follow GAAP or any prescribed format

PLANNING AND CONTROL

One of the most important functions of cost accounting is the development of information which
can be used by management in planning and controlling operations.
- Planning
o the process of establishing objectives or goals for the firm and determining the means by
which the firm will attain them.
o Cost accounting helps in the development of plans by providing historical costs that serve
as basis for projecting data for planning. Management can analyze trends and relationship
among such data as an aid in estimating future costs and operating results and in making
decisions regarding the acquisition of additional facilities, changes in marketing strategies,
and obtaining additional capital.
- Control
o The process of monitoring the company’s operations and determining whether the
objectives identified in the planning process are being accomplished.

COST ACCOUNTING AND OTHER FIELDS OF STUDY

The recording of the costs of a product or a service is part of financial accounting. The use of cost
for valuation of inventory and cost of goods sold for external reporting is also financial accounting. The
use of cost data in choosing between two or more alternatives is part of managerial accounting. Differential
cost analysis is considered by others as a form of applied microeconomics. Cost accounting provides data
for use in decision models for finance, operations management, and marketing. Cost accounting is also
related to motivation and behaviour because it is used in planning and performance evaluation. Finally,
tools from statistics, mathematics, and computer sciences are used to perform cost analysis.

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USES OF COST DATA
Cost data provides management with a basis in making decisions and these may involve the following:
● Price setting. Selling prices are set based on desired profit and incremental costs.
● Choice of product line. A product may be dropped or added based on estimated contribution to
company’s income.
● Make or buy. The company may decide to buy its product instead of continuing to manufacture it
depending on the relevant costs involved.
● Contraction or expansion. A department, agency, branch or an affiliate may be closed or added
based on the estimated decrease or increase in revenue, costs and expenses.
● Temporary shutdown. Management may opt for temporary cessation of operations during slump
seasons based on estimated decrease in both revenue and costs.

CLASSIFICATION OF COSTS
1. Costs classified as to relation to a product
a. Manufacturing costs/ product costs
i. Direct materials
- materials that become part of a finished product and can be conveniently and
economically traced to specific product units.
- Examples:
Iron ore for steel
Sheet steel for automobiles
Flour for bread
- The way a company buys, stores, and uses materials is important.
Timely purchasing is important because if the company runs out of materials, the
manufacturing process will be forced to shut down. Shutting down production results
in no products, unhappy customers, and loss of sales and profits.
- Buying too many direct materials, on the other hand, can lead to high storage costs.
ii. Direct labor costs
- Wages of machine operators and other workers involved in actually shaping the
product.
- Include all labor costs for specific work performed on products that can be
conveniently and economically traced to end products.
- Indirect labor costs
- Labor costs for production related activities that cannot be conveniently and
economically traced to end products
- accounted for as part of factory overhead costs
- include the wages and salaries of
Machine helpers
Supervisors
Other support personnel
iii. Factory overhead
- A catchall for all the manufacturing costs that cannot be classified as direct materials
or direct labor costs.
- A varied collection of production – related costs that cannot be practically or
conveniently traced directly to end products.
- Also called
Manufacturing overhead
Factory burden
Indirect manufacturing costs

Prime costs = Direct materials + Direct labor

Conversion costs = Direct labor + Factory
overhead

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 b. Non-manufacturing costs/ period costs
i. Marketing or selling expense –
- Include all costs necessary to secure customer orders and get the finished product or
service into the hands of the customer
- Often referred to as order-getting and order-filling costs.
- Examples:
a. Advertising d. Sales commissions
b. Shipping e. Sales salaries
c. Sales travel

ii. General or administrative expense

- Include all executive organizational and clerical expenses that cannot logically be
included under either production or marketing.
- Examples:
a. Executive compensation c. Secretarial
b. General accounting d. Public relations
2. Costs classified as to variability
Activity refers to a measure of the organization’s output of products or services. In specifying
cost behaviour, the managerial accountant often limits the description to a specific range of
activity. This is called the relevant range.
a. Variable costs
- Items of cost which vary directly, in total, in relation to volume of production.
- Cost per unit remains constant as volume changes within a relevant range.
- Examples:
a. Direct materials
b. Direct labor
c. Royalties
d. Commission of salesmen
b. Fixed costs
- Items of cost which remain constant in total, irrespective of the volume of
production.
- Cost per unit decreases as volume increases, and increases as volume decreases.
- Examples:
a. Salaries of production executives
b. Depreciation of equipment computed on a straight-line basis
c. Periodic rent payments, insurance
c. Semi – variable costs
- Items of cost with fixed and variable components.
- Vary with the level of production, though not in direct relation to it, probably because
part of the cost is fixed while the rest is variable.
- Example:
a. Cost of electricity where there is a basic minimum charge plus a specified
cost per kilowatt hour above the minimum

3. Costs classified as to relation to manufacturing departments

a. Direct departmental charges
- Costs that are immediately charged to the particular manufacturing department(s)
that incurred the costs since the costs can be conveniently identified or associated
with the department(s) that benefited from said costs.
b. Indirect departmental charges
- Costs that are originally charged to some other manufacturing department(s) or
account(s) but are later allocated or transferred to another department(s) that
indirectly benefited from said costs.

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4. Costs classified to their nature as common or joint
a. Common costs
- Costs of facilities or services employed in two or more accounting periods,
operations, commodities or services.
- Subject to allocation.
b. Joint cost
- Costs of materials, labor and overhead incurred in the manufacture of two or more
products at the same time.
- Major difficulty inherent to joint cost – they are invisible and they are not specifically
identifiable with any of the products being simultaneously produced.
- Subject to allocation.
5. Costs classified as to relation to an accounting period
a. Capital expenditures
- Expenditure intended to benefit more than one accounting period and is recorded as
an asset.
- The allocation of the cost to the different periods is
a. Depreciation for fixed tangible assets
b. Amortization for intangible assets
c. Depletion for wasting assets
b. Revenue expenditures
- Expenditure that will benefit current period only and is recorded as expense
6. Costs for planning, control and analytical processes
a. Standard costs
- Predetermined costs for direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead.
- Established by using information accumulated from past experience and data secured
from research studies.
b. Opportunity costs
- The benefit given up when one alternative is chosen over another.
- Not usually recorded in the accounting system.
- However, it is considered when evaluating alternatives for decision-making.
- If an asset can be used to perform only one function and cannot be sold or used in
other ways, the opportunity cost of that asset is zero.
c. Differential costs
- Cost that is present under one alternative but is absent in whole or in part under
another alternative.
- Encompasses both cost increases and cost decreases between alternatives.
d. Relevant costs
- A future cost that change across the alternatives.
- Examples:
a. Cost of goods sold c. Commissions
b. Advertising d. Warehouse depreciation
e. Out-of-pocket cost
- Cost that requires the payment of money (or other assets) as a result of their
incurrence.
f. Sunk cost
- A cost for which an outlay has already been made and it cannot be changed by present
or future decision.

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 g. Controllable cost
- A cost is considered to be a controllable cost at a particular level of management if
that level has power to authorize the cost.
- Example:
a. Entertainment expense would be controllable by a sales manager if he or
she had power to authorize the amount and type of entertainment for
customers.
b. On the other hand, depreciation of warehouse facilities would not be
controllable by the sales manager since he or she would have no power
to authorize warehouse construction.

THE COST SYSTEM

- One wherein flow of costs is accounted for in detail so that unit costs and inventory costs can be
promptly determined.
- It is effective when it ensures that the company benefits from all its expenditures, that is, costs
incurred contribute to the production of the desired quantity of goods and services.
- May be designed to accumulate costs by products or by departments or processes.
- Perpetual inventory method is used – involves the use of perpetual records showing the flow of
costs or resources.
o For a manufacturing firm, cost of raw materials used, cost of completed units and cost of
goods sold can be readily determined and responsibility for inventories can be pinpointed
based on records kept.
o The controlling accounts and the corresponding subsidiary records are as follows:

Controlling Accounts Subsidiary Records

Materials (Materials Control) –

Materials ledger cards
Used for all items of materials, whether direct or indirect.
Stores
Used for all items in the storeroom, whether raw materials, Stores ledger cards
factory supplies, store supplies, or office supplies.
Work in process Job order cost sheet – under job order costing
Used for costs charged to production Cost of production reports ( or departmental cost
sheets) – under process costing
Finished goods
Finished goods ledger cards
Used for all goods completed and ready for sale

The postings to the controlling accounts are as shown below:

Materials
Materials purchases Purchase returns
Freight in Purchase discounts
Returns of materials previously issued Materials issued

Work in Process
Materials, labor and factory overhead Cost of goods manufactured
charged to production

Finished Goods
Cost of goods manufactured Cost of goods sold
Cost of returned goods which were Goods returned to factory
previously sold for reprocessing

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Flow of cost as reflected by postings to both controlling accounts and subsidiary records – Next page

Other controlling accounts

- They may be used under both periodic and perpetual inventory methods because they do not affect
the inventories. They are:
o Factory overhead control
o Selling expenses control
o General and Administrative Expenses Control
o These are supported by subsidiary records or analysis sheets.

Example: The company pays for the following: Factory supplies – P 600; factory repairs – P 500; store
supplies – P 300; and office supplies – P 200.

The journal entry and the corresponding postings to be made on subsidiary records would be as
follows:

Subsidiary records Dr. Cr.

Factory Overhead Control 1,100.00
Factory supplies P600.00
Factory repairs 500.00
Selling Expenses Control 300.00
Store supplies 300.00
General and Adm. Exp. Control 200.00
Office supplies 200.00
Cash P 1,600.00

The footings per subsidiary records must tally with the balances per controlling accounts in the general
ledger.

Chart of Accounts, Cost System

- Similar to that under the non-cost system with the exception of the account titles affecting cost of
goods manufactured and cost of goods sold.
- The chart of accounts as given under the non-cost system is revised and is shown below.

CHART OF ACCOUNTS FOR A MANUFACTURING FIRM

Balance Sheet Accounts (10-99)
Assets ( 10-99 )
Current Assets (10-99)
11 Cash in Bank 44.1 Accumulated Depreciation – Machinery
and Equipment – Factory
12 Cash on Hand 46 Delivery Equipment
13 Petty Cash Fund 46.1 Accumulated Depreciation – Delivery
Equipment
14 Marketable Securities 51 Automobiles
15 Notes Receivable 52 Accumulated Depreciation –
Automobiles
15-1 Notes Receivable – Discounted 56 Office furniture and fixtures
16 Accounts Receivable 56.1 Accumulated Depreciation – Office
Furniture and Fixtures
16-1 Accounts Receivable – Discounted
20 Finished Goods inventory Intangible Assests (70-79)
21 Work in Process Inventory 71 Goodwill

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22 Materials inventory 72 Patents
26 Prepaid Insurance 79 Other Intangible Assets
39 Miscellaneous Prepaid Items
Plant, Property and Equipment (40-69) Other Assets (80-89)
41 Land
42 Buildings Other Assets (90-99)
42.1 Accumulated Depreciation – Buildings
44 Machinery and Equipment – Factory

Liabilities and Capital (100-199)

Current Liabilities (100-149) Long-Term Liabilities (150-169)
101 Noted Payable 151 Loans Payable
102 Accounts Payable 156 Other Long-Term Debt
103 Vouchers Payable
104 Accrued Payroll Capital (170-199)
105 Other Accrued Liabilities 171 Preferred Stock
106 SSS Contributions Payable 172 Common Stock
107 Medicare Contributions Payable 172.1 Treasury Stock
108 Pagibig Contributions Payable 176 Premium on Preferred Stock
109 Compensation Insurance Payable 177 Premium on Common Stock
110 Estimated Income Tax Payable 191 Retained Earnings
116 Long- Term Due Within One Year
121 Dividends Payable

Income Statement Accounts (200- 699)

Sales (200-249)
201 Sales 429 Insurance Expense
201.1 Sales Returns and Allowances 431 Store Supplies
201.2 Sales Discounts 435 Gasoline and Oil
436 Repairs and Maintenance-Buildings
Cost of Goods Sold (250-299) 437 Repairs and Maintenance – Delivery Van
251 Cost of Goods Sold 451 Depreciation Expense – Buildings
252 Factory Overhead Variance 452 Depreciation Expense – Delivery Van
499 Miscellaneous Selling Expense
Factory Overhead ( 300-399)
General and Administrative Expense (500-599)
301 Factory Overhead Control
301.1 Applied Factory Overhead 501 General and Administrative Expense
Control
302 Salaries-Factory 502 Salaries-General and Administrative
303 Indirect Materials 503 Salaries – Clerical Help
304 Indirect Labor 504 Overtime Premium
305 Freight In 516 SSS Contributions
306 Overtime Premium 517 Medicare Contributions
316 SSS Contributions 518 Pag-ibig Contributions
317 Medicare Contributions 519 Employees’ Compensation Premiums
318 Pagibig contributions 525 Telephone and Telegraph
319 Employees’ Compensation Premiums 526 Light, Power and Water
325 Telephone and Telegraph 529 Insurance Expense
326 Light, Power and Water 531 Office Supplies
329 Insurance Expense 535 Gasoline and Oil- Buildings
331 Factory Supplies 536 Repairs and Maintenance – Buildings
335 Fuel 537 Repairs and Maintenance – Office
Furniture and Fixtures

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 336 Repairs and Maintenance – Buildings 551 Depreciation Expense – Buildings
337 Repairs and Maintenance – Machinery 552 Depreciation Expense – office Furniture
and Equipment and Fixtures
351 Depreciation Expense- Buildings 599 Miscellaneous General and
Administrative Expenses
352 Depreciation Expense- Machinery and Other Income (600-619)
Equipment
399 Miscellaneous Factory Overhead 601 Income from Investments
602 Interest Income
Selling Expenses (400-499) 603 Rental Income
401 Selling Expenses Control 604 Commission Income
402 Salaries – Sales Supervision 605 Miscellaneous Income
403 Salaries – Salesgirls
404 Salaries – Clerical Help Other Expense (620-629)
405 Sales Commissions 621 Interest Expense
411 Delivery Expense
416 SSS Contributions Income Deductions (630-639)
417 Medicare Contributions 631 Provisions for Income Tax
418 Pagibig Contributions
419 Employees’ Compensation Premiums Temporary Account
425 Telephone and Telegraph 700 Payroll
426 Light, Power and Water

The Factory Ledger

- When transactions are voluminous and/or the factory is far from the main office,
manufacturing transactions are preferably recorded in a factory journal and posted to the
factory ledger.
o This requires the use of reciprocal accounts General Ledger (for the factory) and
Factory Ledger (for the main office) when a transaction affects accounts found in both
books.
- Factory Ledger – refers to the book of final entry for manufacturing operations, or
o the account title used by main office in recording transactions affecting accounts
found in both the books of the factory and the main office.
- The accounts carried on factory books are those used in recording manufacturing operations.
- Factory fixed asset accounts – may either be in the books of the factory or the main office.
o If the problem is silent, they are assumed to be on factory books.
o The accounts that must be on books of the factory are:
▪ Materials ▪ Plant, Property and Equipment ▪ Factory Overhead Control
▪ Work in Process ▪ Accumulated Depreciation ▪ Factory Overhead Variance
▪ Finished Goods ▪ Applied Factory Overhead ▪ General ledger

o The factory may have its own petty cash fund so that this account may also be found
on its books
- All functions other than manufacturing are taken care of by main office so that
o Disbursements
o collections
o sales and the corresponding expenses
involved are recorded on the main office books.

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Transfer Voucher

- an intra-company form used to inform the factory when transactions are entered into by the
main office but the same affect manufacturing accounts
- Example
o The main office buys machinery for the factory for P 30,000. Factory fixed assets are
carried on factory books.
▪ a transfer voucher is prepared by the main office informing the latter of the
transaction and to the effect that the factory ledger is debited by the main office for P
30,000.
▪ Based on this, the entries on both books are:

Main Office Books Factory Books

Factory P 30,000 Machinery P 30,000
ledger
Vouchers P 30,000 General Ledger P 30,000
Payable
o The factory effects delivery of goods costing P 50,000 to customers based on sales
orders issued by the main office.
▪ Factory issues a transfer voucher informing the main office of such delivery and
debits the account general ledger.
▪ Entries would be as follows:

Main Office Books Factory Books

Cost of Goods Sold P 50,000 General Ledger P 50,000
Factory Ledger P 50,000 Finished Goods P 50,000
- To facilitate the recording of similar transactions, it would be advisable to determine first
what entry should be made assuming there is only one journal to be used. If one of the
accounts involved is on the other book, then, the reciprocal accounts are used.
- Factory Ledger account – appears on main office books
o Usually has a debit balance
- General ledger account – on factory books
o Usually has a credit balance
- Prior to preparation of financial statements, a work sheet is prepared to combine the
accounts and on this work sheet, the inter-office accounts are eliminated by a working paper
entry.
o Assuming that the adjusted balance of the inter-office accounts is P 36,000, the
elimination per working paper entry would be as follows:
General Ledger P 36,000
Factory Ledger P 36,000

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 JOB ORDER COSTING AND PROCESS COSTING

As stated earlier, cost accumulation may be by products, departments or processes.

In other words, it may be by job order costing or by process costing.
Job order costing
- A system for allocating costs to groups of unique product.
- Applicable to the production of customer specified products such as the manufacture of
special machines.
- Each job becomes a cost center for which costs are accumulated.
- A subsidiary record (job cost sheet) is needed to keep track of all unfinished job (work in
process) and finished jobs (finished goods)
- Examples:
o Houses o Television sets
o Boats o Automobiles
o Pianos o Doors
o Radios o Furniture
Process costing
- Refers to the costing procedure whereby costs are accumulated by departments or processes.
- Each processing department becomes a cost center.
– Adopted for products manufactured under conditions of continuous processing so that they
are not distinguishable from one another (or are homogeneous).
- Examples:
o Beverages
o Flour
o Chemicals
o Minerals
- Cost accumulation is done on cost of production reports (or departmental cost sheets)
The differences between job order costing and process costing may be summarized as follows:

Job order costing Process Costing

Nature of products:
Heterogeneous Homogeneous
Cost accumulation:
By job orders By departments or processes
Reporting
By job orders By departments or processes
When is unit cost computed:
Upon completion End of costing period (usually a
month)
Unit cost computation:
Production costs per job Departmental costs
Number of units Equivalent units of production
Subsidiary record for work in process:
Job order cost sheets Cost of production reports (or
departmental cost sheets)

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 JOB ORDER COSTING
Job order costing
- costing by products, job or work orders, or by contracts.
- The cost unit is the job and each job order is assigned a number for clear and brief
identification.
- All costs directly traceable to each job (direct materials and direct labor) are charged to it
directly.
- Factory overhead – charged to each job at a predetermined rate periodically or upon
completion.
- Cost per unit of the products in each job = accumulated cost / number of units.
- Cost accumulation – done with the use of cost sheets (or job order cost sheets).
- Each job order is provided with a cost sheet so that if there are ten jobs in process, there must
be ten cost sheets.
o Each of them provides columns for materials cost and direct labor cost and space or
column for factory overhead.
▪ Materials issued (per materials requisition form) and labor hours expended (per labor
time tickets) for a job – posted to the corresponding work sheet.
● Thus, materials requisition and labor time tickets (totalled daily or weekly
and tallied with the payroll) should contain the job order numbers to
which they pertain.

CHARACTERISTICS OF JOB ORDER COSTING

1. It collects all manufacturing costs and assigns them to specific job or batches of product.
2. It measures costs for each completed job, rather than for set time periods.
3. It uses just one Work in Process Inventory Control account in the general ledger. This account
is supported by a subsidiary ledger of job order cost cards or sheets for each job in process
at any point of time.

ELEMENTS OF PRODUCT COST IN JOB ORDER COSTING

Elements of product cost – materials cost, labor cost and factory overhead.
For job order costing, materials and labor costs refer to direct materials cost and direct labor cost,
respectively.
Direct materials cost – refers to those items that form part of the finished product and which
can be measured and directly charged to the product
● Examples: leather for shoes, lumber for furniture and metal parts for
automobiles

Direct labor cost – refers to cost of labor expended in the manufacture of a product and which
can be directly charged to the product
Factory overhead – also known as manufacturing expenses or burden.
- Refers to the indirect element of cost
- Includes all manufacturing cost not classified as direct materials or as direct
labor
- Examples:
o Indirect materials – those needed for the completion of the product
but the consumption of which with regard to the product is either so
small or allocation would be too complex so that for convenience, it
is treated as an indirect product cost.
▪ Examples: glue, tacks and polish in the manufacture of shoes
o Indirect labor – refers to cost of manpower which cannot be
identified as pertaining to a particular product.
▪ Examples: salaries and wages of forement, timekeepers and utility men.
o Factory supplies
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 o Depreciation of factory building
o Factory insurance
Note: Distinctions between direct and indirect materials and between direct and indirect labor are
not observed in process costing inasmuch as under the latter, costs accumulation is by departments
or processes and not by products or jobs.

THE JOB ORDER COST SHEET

- The subsidiary record for “work in process” so that for all postings to the latter,
corresponding postings must also be made to the corresponding cost sheets
O MANUFACTURING CORP.
Cost Sheet
Order No. 171
For: Juan Medalla
Product: Computer tables
Specification: Formica finish
And with provision for upright CPU
Quantity: 20
Date Ordered: 1/10/13 Date Wanted: 2/20/13
Date Started: 1/15/13 Date Completed: 2/18/13

DIRECT MATERIALS COST DIRECT LABOR FACTORY

COSTS OVEREHAD
APPLIED

Date Req Amount Date Amount Date

Jan. 15 510 P 20,000 Jan. 15- 5,500 Feb. Direct

22 18 labor cost
x 80% =
27 687 2,600 23-31 4,700 P 21,128

Feb. 10 921 3,500 Feb. 1-7 7,500

Feb. 15 982 5,000 8-15 5,010

16-18 3,700

Total P 31,100 P P 21,128

26,410

Summary on Job No. 171

Direct materials cost P 31,100

Direct labor cost 26,410

Factory overhead applied 21,128

Total factory cost P 78, 638

Gross profit (P 78,638 x 40%) 31,455

Selling price P 110,093

- Forms of Cost sheets – cost sheets may vary in form depending on desired additional
information such as the items, quantity and unit cost of material, number of labor hours,
bases used in charging overhead and the departments in which the different cost items are
charged.
LIGAYA MANUFACTURERS, INC..
Cost Sheet
Order No. 555
For: Singalong Furniture
Product: Rocking Chais
Specification: Narra withs long arm rest
Quantity: 10 units
Date Ordered: May 11, 2013 Date Wanted: June 16, 1997
Date Started: May 16,2013 Date Completed: June 12, 1997

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 DIRECT MATERIALS COST DIRECT LABOR
COSTS

Date Dept Req. No

Amount Date Amount No. of Amou
Hrs. nt

234
May 16 Carpentry P 5,000 5/16- Carpentry 96 P
22 2,880
54
311
1,600
26 Carpentry 2,000 22-28 Carpentry
336 360

June 5 Varnishing 1,500 5/29 Carpentry 10 2,95

to 6/4 0

6/5- Finishing 80
11

Total P 8,500 240 P

7,790

SUMMARY

Direct materials cost P 8,500

Direct labor costs 7,790

Factory overhead applied

Carpentry: Direct labor hours of 160x10 P 1,600
Varnishing: Direct labor hours of 80 x 15 1,200 2,800

Total factory costs @ P 1,904 P 19,090

Gross profit (30% x P 19,090) 5,727

Selling price @ P 2,481.70 P 24,817

- When overhead is charged to jobs upon completion, there exists a difference between work
in process per general and the total of the accumulated costs per cost sheets. This difference
is equal to the amount of overhead not so applied on the cost sheets yet.

MAJOR SOURCE DOCUMENTS FOR JOB ORDER COSTING

1. Job order cost sheet
a. These records accumulate product costs of specific units or small batches of units
for both product costing and control purposes.
b. The file of job order cost sheets for uncompleted jobs serves as a perpetual book
inventory and the subsidiary ledger for Work in Process Control.
Example of a Job order cost sheet:

Job Cost Sheet

Job Number Description
Date Started Date Completed
Direct Materials
Date Requisition No. Quantity Unit Price Cost

Direct Labor
Date Time Card No. Hours Rate Cost

Factory Overhead
Date Activity Base Quantity Application Rate Cost

Cost Summary
Direct Materials
Direct Labor
Factory Overhead
Total Cost
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2. Materials stock card
a. These records are the perpetual book inventory of costs and quantities of
materials on hand
b. The file of materials stock cards for unused materials is the subsidiary ledger for
Materials Control.

Location in
Description Storeroom
Minimu
Maximum m Stores Ledger Acct. No.

Date Received Issued Balance

Unit Qty Unit
Qty. Price Amt. . Unit Price Amt. Qty. Price Amt.

3. Finished Goods Stockcard

a. These records are the perpetual book inventory of costs and quantities of
completed goods held for sale.
b. The file of finished goods stock cards for unsold goods is the subsidiary ledger of
Finished Goods Control
4. Factory overhead control cost record
a. These records accumulate detailed manufacturing overhead costs by department
b. The file of these records for the accounting period is the subsidiary ledger for
Factory Overhead Control
5. Materials requisition, time ticket and Clock card
a. As the source documents for charging costs to jobs and department
b. To aid in fixing responsibility for control and usage of materials and labor

MATERIALS REQUISITION
Date No.
To

Quantity Description Unit Price Amount

Approved by Issued by
Received by

Charge to Job/ Dept.

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 JOB TIME TICKET
Employee
Name Date
Employee Departmen
Number t

Time Started Time Stopped Job Number

ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES – JOB ORDER COSTING

ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES FOR MATERIALS

- In manufacturing enterprises, the common practice is to record all materials and supplies in
one control account, Materials or Stores.
- Procedures that affect the materials account involve the:
1. Purchase of materials and supplies
As materials are purchased, the amount is posted on the Material control
account and at the same time the purchase is also entered on an individual
materials ledger card/ stock card.
Entry: Purchase of materials
Materials/ Stores xxx
Vouchers Payable xxx
To record the purchase of materials
● An entry is made on the stock card under the Received section

Entry: Return of materials

Vouchers Payable xxx
Materials/ Stores xxx
To record the return of materials to vendor
● An entry is made on the stock card under the Received section enclosed
in parenthesis to indicate reduction in quantity

2. Issuance of materials and supplies

When a job is started, the materials needed for the job are issued based on
the materials requisitions prepared by the employees. A copy of the
requisition is given to the storekeeper, which will serve as the basis for the
materials to be issued. The job order number is shown on the materials
requisition together with the specifics on type and quantity of materials
required by each job. The quantity, unit cost, and total cost of each of the
materials are entered on the issued section of the stock card.

Entries: Issuance of Direct materials

Work in process xxx
Materials xxx
To record the issuance of direct materials
● An entry is made on the stock card under the Issued section and also on
the cost sheet – Materials.
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 Entry: Issuance of Indirect Materials
Factory overhead control xxx
Materials xxx
To record the issuance of indirect materials
● An entry is made on the stock card under the Issued section and also on
the overhead analysis sheet.

The material control account may be summarized as follows:

MATERIALS
Inventory beginning Cost of direct materials issued
Purchase of materials Cost of indirect materials issued
Freight-in Cost of materials returned to supplier
Cost of excess materials returned from factory

- The balance of the Materials account represents the Materials inventory at the end of the
period under consideration.
- The amount should be equal to the total of the balances of all the material stock cards.

ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES FOR LABOR

The accounting procedures for labor may be divided into two distinct phases:
1. Collection of payroll data, computation of earnings, calculation of payroll taxes, and
payment of wages
2. Distribution and allocation of labor costs to jobs, departments, and other cost
classifications.

Clock cards/time records

- Used to record the days or hours worked by each employee.
- Used as the basis in computing the gross earnings of employees who are paid hourly wages.

Time tickets
- Prepared for each worker to determine the time spent for each job as basis in determining
the amount to be charged to direct labor cost and indirect labor cost.
- For various jobs, they are sorted, priced and summarized , and the time ticket hours should
be reconciled with the clock card hours.

● At regular intervals, usually daily or weekly, the labor time and labor cost
for each job are entered on the job order cost sheets. For each payroll
period – weekly, every two weeks, or monthly – the summary of
employees’ earnings and the liability for payment is journalized and
posted to the general ledger.

- Entry : Payroll and incurrence of liability

Payroll xxx
Withholding Tax Payable xxx
SSS Premium Payable xxx
PhilHealth Contribution Payable xxx
Pag-ibig Funds Contributions Payable xxx
Vouchers Payable xxx

- Entry: Payment of Payroll

Vouchers Payable xxx
Cash xxx
- The Work in Process account is used to charge the jobs with the direct labor cost.

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 - Factory overhead control is charged for the indirect labor cost incurred.
- Tax withheld is computed based on the table provided by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
- For the SSS Premiums and Medicare Contributions, the table is provided by the Social
Security System.
- The clearing account for the total wages due to the factory personnel is the payroll account
summarized as follows:

PAYROLL
Total wages and salaries earned by factory personnel Total payroll during the payroll period at the same
during the payroll period time debiting work in process for direct labor and
overhead for indirect labor

- The account used to accumulate the liability for payroll or factory overhead is the Accrued
Factory Payroll summarized as follows:
ACCRUED FACTORY PAYROLL
Total amount of wages paid to factory personnel at Balancing beginning
the time crediting accounts payable or cash
Total amount of wages and salaries due to factory
personnel at the same time debiting payroll

ACCOUNTING FOR FACTORY OVERHEAD

- There are two accounts used:
o Factory overhead control – used to accumulate actual overhead incurred
o Factory overhead applied – used to accumulate estimated factory overhead applied
to production
▪ A predetermined rate is used ad this is computed using any of the
following as a base:
● Units of production
● Direct materials cost
● Direct labor hours
● Direct labor cost
● Machine hours
▪ A predetermined factory overhead rate computed may be used for all
departments in the company (blanket rate) or a rate may be computed
for each department to fit the nature of the operations of the
department (departmentalized rate)
Why do we need to use estimated factory overhead (factory overhead applied)?
- Because a the time the overhead is needed for costing of jobs completed, the actual
overhead is not yet available (actual will be known only at the end of the month).
- The computation of the cost of each job will be done upon the completion of the job and this
may be during the first week, second week, or third week of the month, and at this time, the
actual overhead is not yet available because of the items included in the actual overhead
will be known only at the end of the month.
- As items in the factory overhead control account are incurred, the Factory Overhead Control
account is debited.
Entry: Applied factory overhead entered on the job order cost sheet
Work in process xxx
Applied Factory Overhead xxx
- Some actual overhead costs, such as indirect materials, indirect labor and payroll taxes are
debited to Factory Overhead Control as they are incurred.
- Other overhead costs, such as depreciation and expired insurance are debited to Factory
Overhead Control when adjusting entries are recorded.

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 FACTORY OVERHEAD CONTROL
Cost of indirect materials and supplies issued from the Total debit footing at the end of the accounting
warehouse at the same time crediting materials period when closing the books
Cost of indirect labor at the same time crediting payroll
Cost of indirect expense purchased from outsiders
Cost of other indirect expense incurred by the company
Factory overhead applied – account used for accumulating the total overhead charged to
production during period.

FACTORY OVERHEAD APPLIED

Total credit footings at the end of the accounting Cost of overhead allocated to production and
period upon closing the books computed by multiplying the actual factory being used
during the period by the predetermined rate, at the
same time debiting work in process

Over / under applied overhead – the difference between the actual overhead incurred and the applied
overhead.

OVER/UNDER APPLIED OVERHEAD

Difference between the actual factory overhead and Difference between the actual factory overhead and
the applied overhead when actual is more than the the applied overhead when the applied is more than
applied the actual

- Under applied factory overhead (unfavourable)

● Actual factory overhead > Applied factory overhead

- Over applied factory overhead (favourable)

● Applied factory overhead > Actual factory overhead
● Deduction from the Cost of Goods Sold in the Income Statement

Factory Overhead Charged to Production

- Accumulation of factory overhead incurred (or actual factory overhead) takes time especially
in cases wherein adjustments are done on an annual basis.
- Instead of charging actual factory overhead to production, the practice of charging overhead
based on predetermined rates is adopted.
o Account used may either be Applied Factory Overhead or Factory Overhead.
o At the end of the period, both applied factory overhead and factory overhead control
are closed and the difference is called the factory overhead variance which may be
overapplied (credit) or underapplied (debit).
▪ Example: Factory Overhead Charged to production is P 25,760 and factory overhead
incurred amounts to P 26,000. The entries would be as follows:
● To charge overhead to production:
Work in Process P 25,760
Applied Factory Overhead P 25,760
● To take up factory overhead incurred:
Factory Overhead Control P 26,000
Sundry credits P 26,000
● To close Applied factory overhead to Factory Overhead Control
Applied Factory Overhead P 25,760
Factory Overhead Control P 25,760

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 After this entry, Factory overhead control shall have a debit balance of P 240, the
factory overhead variance. This is set up in the following entry:
Factory Overhead Variance P 240
Factory Overhead Control P 240
● In the given example, Actual Factory overhead exceeds applied overhead
so that the variance is a debit ( underapplied, underabsorbed, or
unfavourable).
● When Actual Overhead is more than Applied overhead, the variance must
be a debit (underapplied, underabsorbed or unfavourable).
● When Actual Overhead is less than Applied overhead, the variance must
be a credit (overapplied, overabsorbed or favourable).
● Factory Overhead Variance- preferably used so that both overapplied
and underapplied variances may be posted to the same ledger page.
● Instead of crediting “Applied Factory Overhead” in charging overhead to
production, the credit may be to “Factory Overhead Control”. This practice
eliminates the need to close the former to the latter.
o Disposition of Factory Overhead Variances.
▪ Factory overhead, in general, is treated as a period cost and is closed to cost of goods
sold or to income and expense summary.
● However, when it is significant in amount, it implies an error in costing or
that a wrong overhead rate was used. In this case, the variance is treated
as an adjustment to cost of goods sold and the inventories of finished
goods and work in process.
▪ In the example given in the preceding section, the variance is closed to cost of goods
sold as follows:
Cost of Goods Sold P 240
Factory Overhead Variance P 240
▪ Based on the given entry, an unfavourable variance increases cost of goods sold and a
favourable variance reduces the same.

Income Statement with Factory Overhead Variance – Illustration

Golden Manufacturing Co.
Income Statement
For the Year Ended December 31, 2013
Sales P 250,000
Less – Cost of Goods Sold

Manufacturing costs:
Direct materials cost P 75,000
Direct labor cost 55,000
Factory overhead applied 55,000 P 185,000
Work in process, Jan. 1 33,000
Work in process, Dec. 31 (45,000)
Cost of Goods Manufactured P 173,000
Finished Goods, Jan. 1 29,000
Finished Goods, Dec. 31 (22,000)
Cost of goods sold, normal P 180,000
Underapplied factory overhead 240
Cost of goods sold, actual 180,240
Gross profit on sales 69,760
Less: Operating expenses 55,000
Net income 14,760

In the foregoing illustration, cost of goods sold prior to adjustment for factory overhead
variance is described as normal, that is, based on what has been estimated or planned.
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Work in process - a controlling account used to record the flow of the elements of cost
through the factory during a given period
- Used to accumulate during the month the total cost of materials placed in process, labor
used and factory overhead applied.
- Amounts entered on the cost sheet should equal the amounts debited to the work in process
account during the month.
- As jobs are completed, the cost sheets for the corresponding jobs are totalled and the
amount is now transferred to the finished goods account.
Entry: Transfer from Work in process to Finished Goods account
Finished Goods xxx
Work in process xxx
,

WORK IN PROCESS
- Cost of beginning inventory - Cost of materials, labor and factory overhead
- Cost of direct materials issued to production at the applied to jobs completed during the period at the
same time crediting materials same time debiting finished good

- Cost of direct labor applied to production during - Cost of direct materials returned to the warehouse
the period at the same time crediting the payroll at the same time debiting materials
account

- Amount of overhead applied to production at the

same time crediting applied overhead

- Entry: When the finished goods are delivered to customers

Accounts receivable xxx
Sales xxx

Cost of Goods Sold xxx

Finished Goods xxx
Finished goods – a controlling account used to record the flow of the cost of goods completed
and transferred to the finished goods storeroom during the period.

FINISHED GOODS
- Cost of inventory at the beginning - Cost of finished goods sold during the period at
the same tie debiting cost of goods sold
- Factory cost of job order completed at the same
time crediting work in process
- Cost of goods returned by the customer at the
same time crediting cost of goods sold

Cost of Goods Sold – an account used to accumulate he cost of finished goods disposed through
sale to customers.
COST OF GOODS SOLD
- Cost of finished goods disposed through sale to - Cost of finished goods returned by customers
customers at the same time crediting finished at the same time debiting the finished goods
goods account
- Adjustment for under applied factory overhead - Adjustment of over applied factory overhead
- Balance of the account at the end of the period
at the same time debiting income summary

ILLUSTRATION:
The following information is provided by Bacolor Corp. For 2014:

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 2014
a. Direct materials issued:
Job order No. 14 ................................................ P 9,000
15 ................................................. 12,000
16 ................................................. 8,000
P 29,000
b. Direct labor costs:
Job order No. 14 ................................................ P 3,500
15 ............................................... 5,400
16 ............................................... 3,300
P 12,200
c. Factory overhead is charged to production at 60% of direct labor cost.
d. Job orders nos. 14 and 15 are completed.

The entries and corresponding postings to the work in process account and the cost sheets
would be as follows:
a. Work in Process P 29,0000
Materials P 29,000
Direct materials issued.
b. Work in Process 12,200
Payroll 12,200
Direct labor costs
c. Work in Process 7,320
Applied Factory Overhead 7,320
Overhead charged at 60% of direct labor costs
d. Finished Goods 35,240
Work in Process 35,240
Jobs 14 and 15 completed
Per general ledger; the work in process account should have the following postings:
Work In Process
Direct materials 29,000 Cost of completed jobs 14 and 15 35,240
Direct labor 12,200
Factory overhead applied 7,320

Per cost sheets:

JOB ORDER NO.
14 15 16
Direct materials costs P 9,000 P 12,000 P 8,000
Direct labor costs 3,500 5,400 3,300
Applied factory overhead 2,100 3,240
Total factory costs P 14,600 P 20,640

- The ending balance of work in process is P 13,280 (or P 48,520 minus P 35,240). This must
be the accumulated cost of Job No. 16. However, per cost sheet for said job, the total is only
P 11,300 (that is, P 8,000 + 3,300) because of the non-application yet of factory overhead of
P 1,980 (or 60% x P 3,300).

- Assuming that job order no. 16 is completed during the next period (or in 2015) after
incurring additional direct materials and direct labor costs of P 4,000 and P 2,000,
respectively, the total factory cost of the job would be as follows:

Job Order No. 16

Direct materials costs
2014 P 8,000
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 2015 4,000 12,000
Direct labor costs
2014 P 3,300
2015 2,000 5,300
Factory overhead applied (60% of labor cost of P 5,300) 3,180
Total factory cost P 20,480
The journal entries for 2015 would be as follows:
Work in Process P 6,000
Materials P 4,000
Payroll 2,000
Materials and labor costs
,
Work In Process 1,200
Applied Factory Overhead 1,200
Overhead charged at 60% of P 2,000 labor cost

Finished Goods 20,480

Work in Process 20,480
Competed job order no. 16.

- It should be emphasized that although the total overhead charged to job order no. 16 in
2015 is the total of P 3,180, the journal entry is only for P 1,200 which is based on the
current labor cost of P 2,000. Applied overhead that corresponds to the 2013 labor cost is
included in the 2014 entries.

Journal Entries, Perpetual and Periodic Inventory Methods

The journal entries under the perpetual inventory method differ from those under the periodic
inventory method in the treatment of transactions that affect the inventories, namely, those for
finished goods, work in process and materials. The entries are illustrated on the following pages:

Illustration of Entries Under Perpetual and Periodic Inventory Methods

Perpetual Inventory Method Periodic Inventory Method

a. Raw materials purchases, P 100,000

100,000.0
Materials (Stores) 0 Purchases 100,000.00

Vouchers Payable 100,000.00 Vouchers Payable 100,000.00

b. Purchase returns, P 5,000

Vouchers Payable 5,000.00 Vouchers Payable 5,000.00

Materials (Stores) 5,000.00 Purchase Returns 5,000.00

c. Issuance of materials: direct materials - P 60,000; indirect materials, P 15,000.

Work in Process 60,000.00

Factory Overhead Control 15,000.00 No entry

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 Materials (Stores) 75,000.00

d. Returns of direct materials previously issued, P 2,500

Materials (Stores) 2,500.00 No entry

Work in Process 2,500.00

e. Breakdown of payroll includes factory labor cost of P 35,000.

Work in Process 35,000.00 Labor cost 35,000.00

Payroll 35,000.00 Payroll 35,000.00

f. Factory overhead is charged to production

Work in process 60,000.00 No entry

Factory overhead 60,000.00

g. Cost of goods manufactured, P 125,000.

125,000.0
Finished Goods 0 No entry

Work in Process 125,000.00

h. Cost of goods sold, P 105,000.

105,000.0
Cost of goods sold 0 No entry

Finished goods 105,000.00

i. Cost of goods returned by customers, P 15,000

Finished Goods 15,000.00 No entry

Cost of Goods Sold 15,000.00

Instead of " Factory Overhead" the account " Applied Factory Overhead" may be used.

MODIFIED COST ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

- Some companies adopt a modified cost accounting system wherein subsidiary records are
maintained for materials, work in process and finished goods although journal entries are
based on the periodic inventory method.

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ILLUSTRATION OF ENTRIES UNDER COST AND NON-COST SYSTEM

The following transactions are journalized under both the cost and the non-cost systems:

COST SYSTEM NON-COST SYSTEM

a. Materials purchases, P 60,000

Materials 60,000.00 Purchases 60,000.00

Vouchers Payable 60,000.00 Vouchers Payable 60,000.00

b. Purchase returns, P 2,000

Vouchers Payable 2,000.00 Vouchers Payable 2,000.00

Materials 2,000.00 Purchase Returns 2,000.00

c. Payment for payroll:

Gross earned............................. P 50,000.00
Deductions:

SSS 1,500.00

Medicare 500.00

Pagibig 1,000.00

W/H taxes 800.00 3,800.00

P
Net 46,200

Payroll 50,000.00 Same entry

SSS and Medicare Premiums Payable 2,000.00

Pagibig Premiums Payable 1,000.00

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 Withholding taxes payable 800.00

Vouchers Payable 46,200.00

d. Breakdown of payroll: direct labor - P 25,000; indirect labor - P 5,200; sales - P 10,000; and office - P 9,800.

Work in process 25,000.00 Labor cost (Factory Salaries and wages) 30,200.00

Factory Overehead control 5,200.00 Selling expenses control 10,000.00

Gen and adm. Expenses
Selling expenses control 10,000.00 control 9,800.00

Gen and adm. Expenses control 9,800.00 Payroll 50,000.00

Payroll 50,000.00

e. Rentals (factory, sales and office, 50:30: 20), P 12,000.

Factory Overhead Control 6,000.00 same entry

Selling Expenses Control 3,600.00

General and Adm. Expenses control 2,400.00

Vouchers Payable 12,000.00

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f. Payment for vouchers, P 55,000.

Vouchers Payable 55,000.00 same entry

Cash 55,000.00

g. Factory supplies bought, P 2,000.

Factory overhead control 2,000.00 same entry

Vouchers Payable 2,000.00

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h. Incurred the following: factory repairs - P 3,500; store supplies - P 600; office supplies - P 900; light power and water (factory, sales and office, 60:30:10), P 4,200.

Factory Overhead Control 6,020.00

Selling Expenses Control 1,860.00 same entry

General and Adm. Expenses Control 1,320.00

Vouchers Payable 9,200.00

i. Remittance of payroll deductions including counterpart contribuutions and workmen' compensation premiums amounting to P 2,000
(factory - P 1,000; sales - P 600; office - P 400)

Factory Overhead Control 1,000.00

Selling Expenses Control 600.00

General and Adm. Expenses control 400.00

SSS and Medicare Premiums Payable 2,000.00

Pag-ibig Premiums Payable 1,000.00 same entry

Vouchers Payable 5,000.00

Withholding Taxes Payable 800.00 same entry

Vouchers Payable 800.00

Vouchers Payable 5,800.00 same entry

Cash 5,800.00

j. Factory overhead charged to production, 120% of direct labor cost

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 Work in Process 30,000.00 no entry

Applied Factory Overhead 30,000.00

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k. Cost of goods manufactured, P 80,000

Finished Goods 80,000.00 no entry

Work in Process 80,000.00

l. Sales on account, P 130,000; cost of goods sold, P 65,000.

Accounts Receivable 130,000.00 same entry

Sales 130,000.00

Cost of Goods Sold 65,000.00 no entry

Finished goods 65,000.00

m
. Sales returns, P 2,000; cost of returned goods, P 1,100.

Sales Returns and Allo. 2,000.00 same entry

Accounts Receivable 2,000.00

Finished Goods 1,100.00 no entry

Cost of Goods Sold 1,100.00

n. Provision for depreciation: factory machinery and equipment - P 5,500; factory office furniture - P 3,000; store furniture - P 2,800; and,
office furniture and equipment, P 2,000.

Factory Overhead Control 8,500.00 same entry

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 Selling Expenses Control 2,800.00

General and Adm. Expenses Control 2,000.00

Accum. Deprn. - Fcty. Mach. & Equip 5,500.00

Accum. Deprn. - Fcty. Off. Furn 3,000.00

Accum. Deprn. - Store Furniture 2,800.00

Accum. Deprn. - Office Furniture 2,000.00

o. Expired insurance is P 1,500 out of the total premiums charged to prepaid insurance. Distribution: Factory, sales and office, 60:30:10.

Factory overhead control 900.00 same entry

Selling expenses control 450.00

General and Adm. Expenses Control 150.00

Prepaid insurance 1,500.00

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Closing Entries:
The factory overhead variance is set up
The closing entries, as taken up in Chapter 1, are made by setting up the
Applied Factory Overhead 30,000.00 closing

Factory Overhead Variance 380.00 inventories and closing the beginning inventories and nominal accounts.

Factory Overhead Control 29,620.00

The variance is closed to cost o goods sold

Factory Overhead Variance 380.00

Cost of Goods Sold 380.00

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The nominal amounts are closed to income and expense summary.
Sales 130,000.00

Sales Returns 2,000.00

Cost of Goods Sold 63,520.00

Selling Expenses Control 19,310.00

General and Adm. Expenses Control 16,070.00

Income and Expense Summary 29,100.00

To transfer net icome to retained earnings

Income and Expense Summary 29,100.00

Retained Earnings 29,100.00

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