Job Costing
Job Costing
Job Costing
Objectives
Distinguish between job costing & process costing Trace materials and labor in a manufacturers job costing system Allocate manufacturing overhead in a manufacturers job costing system Account for completion and sales of finished goods and adjust for under- and over-allocated manufacturing overhead Assign noninventoriable costs in job costing
Cost Systems
There are two basic systems used by manufacturers to assign costs to their products:
Job order costing Process costing
Laura Foods produces a garlic flavored tomato sauce. Production of the sauce requires two major processes: Chopping Mixing and Canning
Process Costing
Assume that Laura incurred $20,000 in the Mixing and Canning process to mix 100,000 pints of tomato sauce. What is the Mixing and Canning cost per pint? $20,000 100,000 = $0.20/pint
Job Costing
It is used by a manufacturer who produces products as individual units or in distinct batches or jobs.
David, Bryan, and Co. is a small furniture manufacturing business in Texas. They received an order for 10 chairs from a customer in Kansas City.
Total cost for the job was $500. How much was the cost per chair?
$500 10 = $50/chair
Job Costing
Includes: Job Number, Customer Info, Job Description, Date Promised, Date Started, Date Completed, Materials, Labor, Overhead used and amounts, etc Exhibit 20-8, pg. 804
Job Number: J9738 Date Promised: 9/11/06 Customer: Miami Motors Date Started: 8/03/06 Job Description: 300 automobile engine valves Engineering Design Number: JJJ-100
Quantity
Bar steel 720 lbs stock 3 A35161 Subassemblies 290 units Total direct materials cost:
Number
Rate Amount $28 $ 672 $26 1,664 $18 2,160 $17 1,037
$5,533
Total cost $39,237 Number of units produced 300 Cost per unit $130.79
Cost
Materials Cost
Companies using job costing often use a perpetual system to account for direct materials. A materials requisition is used to request transfer of materials to the production floor.
Work in Process Inventory 8,000 Manufacturing Overhead 2,000 Materials Inventory 10,000
Labor Costs
Labor costs are accumulated using the payroll register and time records. Labor time records identify the employee, the amount of time spent, and the cost charged to each job.
30,000 30,000
Assume that $25,000 can be traced directly to the jobs and $5,000 is for indirect labor.
Manufacturing Overhead Costs are accumulated in the Manufacturing Overhead Account as they occur throughout the year
Example: The company incurred $20,000 of plant equipment depreciation. Manufacturing Overhead 20,000 Accum. Depr. P & Equip 20,000
At the beginning of the year, a predetermined manufacturing overhead application rate is computed. This rate is used to apply overhead to all jobs completed during the year.
Estimate total overhead for the period. Select an overhead allocation base.
- links indirect manufacturing overhead to cost objects (want it to be primary cost driver)
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Estimate total quantity of the overhead allocation base. Compute the predetermined overhead rate. (using formula)
Obtain actual quantities of the overhead allocation base. Allocate manufacturing overhead by multiplying the predetermined manufacturing overhead rate by the actual quantity of the allocation base that pertains to each job.
Alec Clothing Co.s total estimated overhead for the year equals $243,000. The predetermined overhead rate is based on 4,500 direct labor hours. What is the predetermined overhead rate?
Assume that Job 51 used 200 direct labor hours. What is the amount of manufacturing overhead? What is the journal entry to record the manufacturing overhead applied?
As jobs are completed they are transferred to finished goods inventory. In addition to the overhead applied to Job 51, direct labor was $4,000 and direct materials totaled $30,000. How much was transferred to Finished Goods Inventory?
Work in Process
Finished Goods
Assume that Job 51 was sold for $74,800. What are the journal entries?
Suppose that the company incurred $232,000 of actual manufacturing overhead during the year, and that actual direct labor hours worked were 4,000. The actual manufacturing overhead rate would have been $232,000 4,000 = $58. The predetermined rate was $54.
How much overhead was allocated to the various jobs? _____ direct labor hours $___ = $_________ What is the underallocated amount? $________ actual $_______ allocated = $_______ Need to increase the cost of the job by $________
Assume the opposite situation in which allocated overhead is $232,000 and actual overhead is $216,000. How do we dispose of overallocated overhead? Debit the Manufacturing Overhead account and credit the Cost of Goods Sold account to decrease the costs that went to the income statement.
How is direct labor traced to individual jobs in a nonmanufacturing company? Employees complete a weekly time record. Jim, Abby, and Associates is a firm specializing in composing and arranging music parts for different clients. Musician Judy Lopezs salary is $80,000 per year.
Assuming a 40-hour workweek and 50 workweeks in each year gives a total of 2,000 available working hours per year (40 hours 50 weeks). What is her hourly rate?
Jim and Abby estimated the indirect costs that will be incurred in 2006. Advertising $ 15,000 Depreciation 6,000 Maintenance 12,000 Office rent 60,000 Office support 47,000 Travel 20,000 Total indirect costs $160,000
Assume that they estimate that the musicians will work 8,000 direct labor hours in 2006. What is the predetermined indirect cost rate?
Records show that Judy Lopez worked 25 hours servicing Los Abuelos Music Co. What is the total cost assigned to this client?
Direct Labor: Indirect costs: Total costs: _______
Review
Completion and Sale of Finished Products Under and Over Allocated Overhead Job Costing in Nonmanufacturing Companies