Faithjames Servano - SA No. 4 - Chapter 3 Job Order Costing
Faithjames Servano - SA No. 4 - Chapter 3 Job Order Costing
Faithjames Servano - SA No. 4 - Chapter 3 Job Order Costing
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
$2,136
Total overhed cost
Units sold 50
Molding Painting
4. Dept Dept
Manufacturing overhead incurred $570,000 $750,000