Elite Home Decor manufactures customized household furnishings. The company uses a perpetual inventory system and has a highly labour intensive production process, so it assigns manufacturing overhead based on direct labour cost. Elite expects to incur $2,205,000 of manufacturing overhead costs and estimated direct labour costs of $3,150,000 during 2020. At the end of December 2019, Elite reported work in process inventory (Job 551) of $93,000 The following events occurred during January - March 2020. i) Purchased materials on account, $392,000 ii) Incurred manufacturing wages of $400,000 iii) Requisitioned direct materials and used direct labour in manufacturing Direct Materials Direct Labour Job 551 $70,200 $61,200 Job 552 97,500 115,600 Job 553 105,300 78,200 Job 554 117,000 85,000 iv) Issued indirect materials to production, $30,000 v) Charged indirect manufacturing wages to production, $60,000 vi) Depreciation of production machinery, $85,000 vii) Other manufacturing overhead costs incurred on units 551 to 554 amounted to $49,000 viii)Allocated overheads to jobs at the predetermined rate ix) Units completed: 551, 552 & 554 x) Sold units 551 & 554 (billed customers at a margin of 333% on sales) Required: (a) Compute Elite's predetermined manufacturing overhead rate for 2020. (b) Calculate the total manufacturing costs for each job. (c) (d) Using the total figures, record the above transactions in the general journal. Post the manufacturing overhead transactions to the Manufacturing Overhead T-account, clearly showing the balance before closing the account. State the journal entries necessary to dispose of the variance. Assume that the manufacturing overhead variance is immaterial. (e) What is the balance in the Cost of Goods Sold account after the adjustment? (f) Compute Elite's gross profit earned on the jobs sold, after adjusting for the manufacturing overhead variance (g) Post the appropriate entries to Work in Process Inventory account & determine the account balance on March 31, the end of the quarter.
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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