For August, Royal Consulting and Mediation Practice (RCMP) worked 900 hours for Alberta Company and 2,100 hours for Ontario Corporation. RCMP bills clients at the rate of $400 per hour; labor cost for its consulting staff is $200 per hour. The total number of hours worked in August was 3,000, and overhead costs were $60,000. Overhead is applied to clients at $24 per labor-hour. In addition, RCMP had $240,000 in marketing and administrative costs. All transactions are on account. All services were billed. Transaction Description (a) Record Labor cost (b) Record Applied Service Overhead (c) Record Cost of services billed (d) Record Actual Service Overhead Required: a. Show labor and overhead cost flows through T-accounts. b. Prepare an income statement for the company for August.
Variance Analysis
In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for the variance so that the necessary steps should be taken to correct that variance.
Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
For August, Royal Consulting and Mediation Practice (RCMP) worked 900 hours for Alberta Company and 2,100 hours for Ontario Corporation. RCMP bills clients at the rate of $400 per hour; labor cost for its consulting staff is $200 per hour. The total number of hours worked in August was 3,000, and overhead costs were $60,000. Overhead is applied to clients at $24 per labor-hour. In addition, RCMP had $240,000 in marketing and administrative costs. All transactions are on account. All services were billed.
| Transaction | Description |
| (a) | Record Labor cost |
| (b) | Record Applied Service Overhead |
| (c) | Record Cost of services billed |
| (d) | Record Actual Service Overhead |
Required:
a. Show labor and overhead cost flows through T-accounts.
b. Prepare an income statement for the company for August.
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