Faithjames Servano - SA No. 4 - Chapter 3 Job Order Costing

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Job Order Costing Faith James B.

Servano
Seat Work /Assignment 4 BSIE 3-5

High Desert Pottery works makes a variety of pottery products that it sells to retailers such as Home Depot. The company uses a job-order
costing system in which predetermined overhead rates are used to apply manufacturing overhead cost to jobs. The predetermined overhead
rate in the Molding Department is based on machine-hours, and the rate in the Painting Department is based on direct labor cost. At the
beginning of the year, the company’s management made the following estimates:
Department
Molding Painting
Direct labor-hours 12,000 60,000
Machine-hours 70,000 8,000
Direct materials cost $510,000 $650,000
Direct labor cost $130,000 $420,000
Manufacturing overhead cost $602,000 $735,000

Job 205 was started on August 1 and completed on August 10. The company’s cost records show the following concerning the job:
Department
Molding Painting
Direct labor-hours 30 85
Machine-hours 110 20
Direct materials placed into production $470 $332
Direct labor cost $290 $680
Required:
1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used during the year in the Molding Department. Compute the rate used in the Painting
Department.
2. Compute the total overhead cost applied to Job 205.
3. What would be the total cost recorded for Job 205? If the job contained 50 units, what would be the unit product cost?
4. At the end of the year, the records of High Desert Pottery works revealed the following actual cost and operating data for all jobs worked
on during the year:

Department
Molding Painting
Direct labor-hours 10,000 62,000
Machine-hours 65,000 9,000
Direct materials placed into production $430,000 $680,000
Direct labor cost $108,000 $436,000
Manufacturing overhead cost $570,000 $750,000

What was the amount of under or overapplied overhead in each department at the end of the year?

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Solution:
Job Order Costing - Seatwork 4
Solution to Problem

1. Molding Department predetermined overhead rate:


POH = Estimated total manufacturing overhed cost
Estimated total amount of the allocation base
602,000 dollars
=
70,000 machine hrs MHs
= $8.6 per machine hour

Painting Deprtment predetermined overhead rate:


POH = Estimated total manufacturing overhed cost
Estimated total amount of the allocation base
$735,000
=
420,000 direct labor cost
= $1.75 of direct labor cost

2. Molding Department overhead applied:


110 machine-hours x $8.6 per machine-hour $946

Painting Department overhead applied:


$680 Direct Labor Cost X $1.75
%of DirectLabor Cost $1,190

$2,136
Total overhed cost

3. Total cost of Job205:


Molding Painting
Dept Dept Total
$470
Direct materials $332 $802

Direct labor $290 $680 $970

Manufacturing overhead applied $946 $1190 $2136

Total Cost $1,706


$2,202 $3,908

Unit Product cost forJob 205:


$3,908
Total cost $78.16

Units sold 50

Molding Painting
4. Dept Dept
Manufacturing overhead incurred $570,000 $750,000

Manufacturing overhead applied:


$8.769 $569,985
$65,000
Mhrs x
$749,920
$436,000 DLC x $1.72

Underapplied (or overapplied) overhead $15 $80

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