A company estimated 111,680 direct labor hours and $810,549 in overhead. The actual overhead was $875,663, and there were 108,349 direct labor hours. How much is overhead under- or over- applied? Round to the nearest penny, two decimal places. Enter an overapplied overhead as a negative amount. For example, if it is overapplied by 500.00, the input would be -500.00 do not use parenthesis.
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
A company estimated 111,680 direct labor hours and $810,549 in
Over/Under Applied Overhead:
The difference between manufacturing overhead cost applied to work in process and manufacturing overhead cost actually incurred by the business during the period is characterized as over or under-applied manufacturing overhead.
Over-applied manufacturing overhead occurs when the manufacturing overhead cost applied to work in process exceeds the manufacturing overhead cost actually incurred during a period. Under-applied manufacturing overhead occurs when the manufacturing overhead cost applied to work in process is less than the manufacturing overhead cost actually incurred during a period.
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