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Job Costing; Service Industry The Joshi CPA firm has the following budget for 2010:...

Job Costing; Service Industry

 The Joshi CPA firm has the following budget for 2010:

Direct labor (for professional hours charged to clients)

$180,000

Overhead

 

Indirect materials

$ 25,000

Indirect labor

125,000

Depreciation—Building

25,000

Depreciation—Furniture

2,500

Utilities

28,000

Insurance

2,400

Property taxes

2,600

Other expenses

14,500

Total

$225,000

The firm uses direct labor cost as the cost driver to apply overhead to clients. During January, the firm worked for many clients; data for two of them follow:

Barry account

 

Direct labor

$2,200

Miles account

 

Direct labor

$8,400

Required

1. Compute Joshi’s budgeted overhead rate. Explain how this is used.


2. Compute the amount of overhead to be charged to the Barry and Miles accounts using the predetermined overhead rate calculated in requirement 1.


3. Compute a separate job cost for the Barry and the Miles accounts.

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