Larry’s Lawn Services provides custom landscaping for homes and businesses and uses job order costing to capture the cost of its landscaping jobs.  There are no jobs in process at the beginning of May.  Listed below are data concerning the three landscaping jobs conducted during May.                                                                Southside              Oceanview         Rocky Heights             Direct materials                       $5,450                         $7,635                  $6,480             Landscaper labor costs          $4,810                         $5,980                  $5,525             Landscaper hours                          74                                92                         85

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Larry’s Lawn Services provides custom landscaping for homes and businesses and uses job order costing to capture the cost of its landscaping jobs.  There are no jobs in process at the beginning of May.  Listed below are data concerning the three landscaping jobs conducted during May. 

 

                                                            Southside              Oceanview         Rocky Heights

            Direct materials                       $5,450                         $7,635                  $6,480

            Landscaper labor costs          $4,810                         $5,980                  $5,525

            Landscaper hours                          74                                92                         85       

 

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Larry's Lawn Services provides custom landscaping for homes and businesses and uses job
order costing to capture the cost of its landscaping jobs. There are no jobs in process at the
beginning of May. Listed below are data concerning the three landscaping jobs conducted
during May.
Southside
$5,450
$4,810
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$7,635
$5,980
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Overhead costs are applied to jobs on the basis of landscaper hours, and the predetermined
overhead rate is $60 per landscaper hour. The Southside job is the only incomplete job at the
end of May. Actual overhead for the month was $15,400.
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Determine the cost of each job.
Indicate the balance of the Landscape Contracts in Process account at the end of May.
Calculate the ending balance of the Operating Overhead account for May.
During May, Larry is approached by the owner of Mountain Estates who would like to
contract with Larry's company. Larry is working to prepare the bid for Mountain Estates
and has the following information: Direct materials, $10,450 and Landscaper hours, 125
hours. Analyze the financial information provided for Southside, Oceanview and Rocky
Heights and help Larry complete his bid by estimating the total cost of the Mountain
Estates job. Assume that the labor rate will remain the same for the purposes of the
estimate.
Pristine Painting Services uses a job order cost system to collect the costs of its home painting
business. Each customer's house is treated as a separate job. Overhead is applied to each job
based on the number of painting hours required for each house. Listed below are the data for
the current year:
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