Current Attempt in Progress Job 400 Job 401 Job 402 Direct Materials $200 $21/hour O $10/hour O $16/hour O $18/hour 250 500 Direct Labour Cost $800 200 600 Direct Labour Hours 40 10 32 Sparkle Company uses job costing and applies overhead using an actual costing system using direct labour hours as the allocation base. This period's estimated overhead cost is $400,000, estimated direct labour cost is $500,000 and estimated direct labour hours are 25,000. This period's actual overhead cost was $420,000, actual direct labour cost was $390,000, and actual direct labour hours were 20,000. What is the overhead allocation rate?
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.
![Current Attempt in Progress
Job 400
Job 401
Job 402
Direct Materials
$200
$21/hour
O $10/hour
O $16/hour
O $18/hour
250
500
Direct Labour Cost
$800
200
600
Direct Labour Hours
40
10
32
Sparkle Company uses job costing and applies overhead using an actual costing system using direct labour hours as the allocation
base. This period's estimated overhead cost is $400,000, estimated direct labour cost is $500,000 and estimated direct labour hours
are 25,000. This period's actual overhead cost was $420,000, actual direct labour cost was $390,000, and actual direct labour hours
were 20,000.
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