ACCT19060 Concepts of Managerial Accounting-Annual Financial Report

Items	Job 24 $	Job 25 $
Direct materials	5 100	1 500
Direct labour	1 200	3 000
Applied overhead	780	1 950
Balance, 1 March	7 080	6 450

Items	Job 24 $	Job 25 $	Job 26 $	Job 27 $
Direct materials	2 500	7 110	1 800	1 700
Direct labour	800	6 400	900	560

Calculate the overhead rate based on direct labour costs (Note: round to three decimal places)Prepare a brief job-order cost sheet for the four jobs. Show the balance as of 1 March as well as direct materials and direct labour added in March. Apply overhead to the four jobs for the month of March and show the ending balances.Calculate the ending balances of Work in Process and Finished Goods as of 31 March.Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold for March.

1.a Depicting the predetermined overhead rate and how cost assigned to production when predetermined overhead rate is used:

Predetermined overhead costs are generally computed at the beginning of the period, which allows the manufacturing company to assign relative costs to each of its activities. In addition, the predetermined overhead costs is mainly calculated by dividing estimated manufacturing overhead cost by estimated total units in the allocation base (Chikoto & Neely, 2014).

1.b Depicting departmental overhead and plant-wide overhead rate:

Plant wide overhead rate is mainly used as a single rate, which could be allocated to all the company’s manufacturing overhead costs. This method is mainly used to accommodate all the indirect costs, which is related to manufacturing. This method is mainly used when maximum of the activities costs same.

Departmental overhead is mainly used to segregate the excess expenditure conducted on certain activities of the manufacturing company. This method mainly accommodates the high expenses, which needs to be incurred in certain activities, while it cannot be accommodated in total manufacturing overhead cost (Gneezy, Keenan & Gneezy, 2014).

1.c Depict the overhead variance and how it is accounted for:

Overhead variance is mainly derived by applied overhead with actual overhead the difference is mainly considered as overhead variance. Typically the actual overhead is mainly deduced from applied overhead, which is been used by the company. This mainly helps in identifying the relative effective measures taken by the company to identify the exact cost of manufacturing (Snyder & Davenport, 2013).

1.d Justifying the cost of job related to price charged:

Yes cost of job is mainly related to the price charged, as each job needs certain raw material and labour, which directly increases costs of the company. Jobs costing method is mainly based on the assigning relevant cost on each activity to identify the exact costs of production. Thus, it is justifiable that cost of each job is related to price charged (Lewis, 2013).

Calculating the overhead rate based on direct labour cost:

For calculating the overhead rate, considering job 24 direct labours and applied overhead.

Preparing job order cost sheet for four jobs:

Calculating ending balance of Work in Process and Finished Goods as of 31 March:

Only Job 26 was not finished, which make the work in progress value to $3285. In addition, from fished jobs 24, 25 and 27 only goods of job 27 was sold, which make Job 24 and Job 25 products as finished goods.

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