Carib Tings & More does hand-crafted memorabilia for the tourism industry, in which each batch of items is a job. The company has a highly machine intensive production process, so it allocates manufacturing overhead based on machine hours. Carib Tings & More pre-determined overhead application rate for 2024 was computed from the following data: Total estimated factory overheads $2,400,000 Total estimated machine hours 40,000 At the end of May 2024, Carib Tings & More reported work in process inventory of $176,000. During June 2024, Carib Tings & More actually used 3,000 machine hours and recorded the following transactions. Purchased $324,000 worth of materials on account. Separately, Carib Tings & More paid a $2,500 bill for freight in. i) ii) Manufacturing wages incurred $400,000 iii) Materials requisitioned (includes $30,000 of indirect materials) $420,000 iv) Assigned manufacturing wages, 85% direct labour, 15% indirect labour v) vi) Depreciation expense on factory equipment used on the different jobs Other manufacturing overhead incurred $95,000 $35,000 vii) Allocated manufacturing overhead for June 2024 viii) Cost of jobs completed ix) Cost of jobs sold (on account) at a margin of 33% on sales $1,015,000 $985,000 Required: (a) Compute Carib's predetermined manufacturing overhead rate for 2024. (b) State the journal entries necessary to record the above transactions in the general journal. Assume that Carib uses the perpetual inventory system. (c) Post the manufacturing overhead transactions to the Manufacturing Overhead T-account and state the balance on the account before performing end of period closing entries. Show the journal entries necessary to dispose of the variance. (d) What is the balance in the Cost of Goods Sold account after the adjustment? (e) Compute Carib's gross profit earned on the jobs completed and sold, after adjusting for the manufacturing overhead variance. (f) Post the appropriate entries to Work in Process Inventory Control account & determine the account balance on June 30, the end of the month. (g) State and explain three (3) differences between a job costing system and a process costing system.
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.


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