Job Costs Using Activity-Based Costing
Heitger Company is a job-order costing firm that uses activity-based costing to apply overhead to jobs. Heitger identified three overhead activities and related drivers. Budgeted information for the year is as follows:
Activity | Cost | Driver | Amount of Driver | ||
Materials handling | $92,400 | Number of moves | 4,000 | ||
Engineering | 93,600 | Number of change orders | 6,000 | ||
Other overhead | 230,300 | Direct labor hours | 49,000 |
Heitger worked on four jobs in July. Data are as follows:
Job 13-43 | Job 13-44 | Job 13-45 | Job 13-46 | |||||
Beginning balance | $23,900 | $18,200 | $2,000 | $0 | ||||
Direct materials | $5,400 | $9,100 | $10,200 | $9,800 | ||||
Direct labor cost | $880 | $1,020 | $1,560 | $120 |
Job 13-43 | Job 13-44 | Job 13-45 | Job 13-46 | |||||
Number of moves | 47 | 53 | 31 | 6 | ||||
Number of change orders | 33 | 35 | 21 | 15 | ||||
Direct labor hours | 880 | 1,020 | 1,560 | 120 |
By July 31, Jobs 13-43 and 13-44 were completed and sold. Jobs 13-45 and 13-46 were still in process.
. Calculate the activity rates for each of the three overhead activities. Round all activity rates to the nearest cent.
Materials handling rate | |
Engineering rate | |
Other overhead rate |
2. Calculate the balance in Work in Process on
July 31.
3. Calculate the cost of goods sold for
July.
4. What if Job 13-46 required no engineering change orders? What is the difference in the new cost of Job 13-46? How would the cost of the other jobs be affected?
Calculate the activity rates for each of the three overhead activities. Round all activity rates to the nearest cent.
Activity | Cost | Amount of Driver | Activity Rate | |
Materials handling | 92,400 | 4,000 | 23.10 | per move |
Engineering | 93,600 | 6,000 | 15.60 | per change order |
Other overhead | 2,30,300 | 49,000 | 4.70 | per direct labor hour |
2. Calculate the balance in Work in Process on July 31.
Job 13-43 | Job 13-44 | Job 13-45 | Job 13-46 | |
Beginning balance | 23,900 | 18,200 | 2,000 | 0 |
Direct materials | 5,400 | 9,100 | 10,200 | 9,800 |
Direct labor cost | 880 | 1,020 | 1,560 | 120 |
Material handling @23.10 | 1,086 | 1,224 | 716 | 139 |
Engineering @ 15.60 | 514.8 | 546 | 327.6 | 234 |
Other overhead @ 4.70 | 4,136 | 4,794 | 7,332 | 564 |
Total costs | 35,917 | 34,884 | 22,136 | 10,857 |
Balance in Work in Process on July 31 | Cost of Jobs |
Job 13-45 | 22,136 |
Job 13-46 | 10,857 |
balance in Work in Process on July 31 | 32,992 |
3. Calculate the cost of goods sold for July.
Cost of goods sold for July | |
Job 13-43 | 35,917 |
Job 13-44 | 34,884 |
Cost of goods sold for July | 70,801 |
4. What if Job 13-46 required no engineering change orders? What is the difference in the new cost of Job 13-46? How would the cost of the other jobs be affected?
Job 13-46 | |
Beginning balance | 0 |
Direct materials | 9,800 |
Direct labor cost | 120 |
Material handling @23.10 | 139 |
Other overhead @ 4.70 | 564 |
New Total costs | 10,623 |
The cost of the other jobs will get increased
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