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Job Order Costing and Analysis

QUESTIONS

• Factory overhead is not identified with specific units (jobs) or batches (job lots).

Therefore, to assign costs, estimates of the relation between factory overhead cost and job or job lot are necessary. Since managers need timely cost information, we need to estimate a predetermined overhead rate to use in applying estimated overhead to jobs. This estimated amount also helps job order companies determine prices on a timely basis.

• Several other factors (allocation bases) are possible and reasonable. These common

factors often include direct materials or machine hours.

• The job order cost sheet captures information on cost and quantity of direct material

and direct labor, and on the amount of factory overhead applied to the respective job or job lot. Management and employees use this information to monitor costs during production and to estimate total cost of production.

• Each job is assigned a subsidiary ledger account. This account serves as the

“posting account” (accumulates all increases and decreases) during production for direct material, direct labor, and applied factory overhead. The collection of job cost sheets for all of the jobs in process make up a subsidiary ledger controlled by the Work in Process Inventory account in the general ledger.When a job is finished, its job cost sheet is completed and moved from the file of jobs in process to the file of finished jobs awaiting delivery to customers. This latter file acts as a subsidiary ledger controlled by the Finished Goods Inventory account. In this way, management and employees can obtain the costs, direct and indirect, associated with any job or job lot at any time.

• A debit (increase) to Work in Process Inventory for direct materials, a debit (increase)

to Factory Overhead for indirect materials, and a credit (decrease) to Raw Materials Inventory.

• The materials requisition slip is designed to track the movement of materials from

raw materials to production. It also serves as an internal control document because without the slip the inventory department should not release inventory to production.

• The time ticket is used to record how much time an employee spends on each job.

Time tickets are also used to determine the amount of overhead to charge to jobs when overhead is based on direct labor.

• Debits (increases) to factory overhead are the recording of actual overhead costs,

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• Assuming that the overapplied or underapplied overhead is immaterial, it is closed to

the Cost of Goods Sold account.

• This production run should be accounted for as a job lot (batch). Although individual

iPhones could be viewed as individual jobs, the costs of tracking this detailed information would outweigh the benefits. Determining the cost of the batch should provide management and employees with sufficient information about this product for all decision making purposes.

• A predetermined factory overhead rate must be calculated for at least two reasons:

(1) Not all costs are known in advance, yet estimated overhead costs must be applied to products during the current period. (2) A predetermined rate is used to spread indirect costs to products and/or services throughout an accounting period, where overhead costs are not incurred uniformly throughout the period and production may not be uniform throughout the period. For instance, property taxes on the factory building of $20,000 may be paid in July, but some of that $20,000 must be allocated to all items produced during the year, January through December. A predetermined rate is necessary, because we must estimate the rate at the beginning of the year, based on estimated costs and activity, before the period begins.

• Each patient in a hospital can be viewed as a “job.” In this case, a job order cost

sheet would be used to capture cost of direct materials (supplies, medicine, and so forth), direct labor, and hospital overhead.

• Each of the 30 luxury motorcycles will likely be accounted for as an individual job.

Although similar in many respects, each would have custom features that would impact costs. As the luxury motorcycles are shipped to dealers each will have a separate invoice detailing the cost associated with producing that motorcycle. Also, the price of a custom-made motorcycle is probably large enough (in the area of $20,000 to $50,000) that each would be accounted for individually.

• Sprint employees can use job cost sheets to accumulate the costs (e.g. materials,

labor, and overhead) used on each job. Managers can use this job cost information to monitor whether Sprint is meeting its target costs and producing reasonable profits. This information can be used to adjust the prices of certain services and/or cease providing certain services if the costs cannot be controlled to yield a reasonable profit.

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QUICK STUDIES

Quick Study 2-1 (5 minutes)

Manufactured as a job: 3, 4, 6

Manufactured as a job lot: 1, 2, 5

Quick Study 2-2 (10 minutes)

Finished Goods Inventory ............................................ 10,500 Work in Process Inventory ...................................... 10,500 Transfer cost of completed job to Fin. Goods.

Cost of Goods Sold ....................................................... 10,500 Finished Goods Inventory ...................................... 10,500 Transfer cost of delivered job to COGS.

Cash ................................................................................

14,900

Sales ......................................................................... 14,900 Record sales price of delivered job.

Quick Study 2-3 (10 minutes)

1. A 3. B 5. E

2. D 4. C

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Raw Materials Inventory ............................................... 50,000 Cash .......................................................................... 50,000 Record raw material purchases.

Factory Overhead .......................................................... 12,000 Raw Materials Inventory ......................................... 12,000 Record indirect materials used in production.

Work in Process Inventory ........................................... 32,000 Raw Materials Inventory ......................................... 32,000 Record direct materials used in production.

Quick Study 2-5 (10 minutes)

Work in Process Inventory ........................................... 140,000 Factory Wages Payable .......................................... 140,000 Record direct labor.

Factory Overhead .......................................................... 40,000 Factory Wages Payable .......................................... 40,000 Record indirect labor.

Quick Study 2-6 (10 minutes)

• Factory overhead, $117,000 / Direct labor, $468,000 = 25%
• Factory overhead, $117,000 / Direct materials, $390,000 = 30%

Quick Study 2-7 (10 minutes)

Rate = Estimated overhead costs = $560,000 = $400 per machine hour Estimated machine hours 1,400

Amount applied to Job 65A = 13 x $400 = $5,200