Jenson College provides its own housekeeping services. The College director would like to outsource this service a has found a company that will provide the service for $51 per hour. The following information has been collected about the cost per hour to the college for performing its own housekeeping services: Cost per hour of service: Cleaning supplies Direct labour costs Variable overhead Total hours of housekeeping services per year $3 $30 $1 3,140
Process Costing
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Job Costing
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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.
![Jenson College provides its own housekeeping services. The College director would like to outsource this service and
has found a company that will provide the service for $51 per hour. The following information has been collected
about the cost per hour to the college for performing its own housekeeping services:
Cost per hour of service:
Cleaning supplies
Direct labour costs
Variable overhead
Total hours of housekeeping services per year
Total fixed overhead
(a)
Determine whether Jenson College should outsource housekeeping, assuming that 50% of fixed costs can be
eliminated if the service is outsourced. (If an amount reduces the net income then enter with a negative sign preceding
the number, e.g.-15,000 or parenthesis, e.g. (15,000).)
Number
of hours:
3,140
Cleaning
supplies
Direct
labour
Variable
overhead
Fixed
costs
$
LA
Purchase
price
Total cost $
$3
$30
$1
3,140
$51,000
In-house
$
$
Outsource
$
LA
$
Net Income
Increase (Decreas
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