Olney Recycling recycles newsprint, cardboard, and so forth, into recycled packaging materials. For the coming year, Olney estimates total manufacturing overhead to be $370,000. The company's managers are not sure if direct labor hours (estimated to be 10,000) or machine hours (estimated to be 14,800 hours) is the best allocation base to use for allocating manufacturing overhead. Olney bids for jobs using a 31% markup over total manufacturing cost.
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.
Olney
Recycling recycles newsprint, cardboard, and so forth, into recycled packaging materials. For the coming year,
![Olney Recycling recycles newsprint, cardboard, and so forth, into recycled packaging
materials. For the coming year, Olney estimates total manufacturing overhead to be
$370,000. The company's managers are not sure if direct labor hours (estimated to be
10,000) or machine hours (estimated to be 14,800 hours) is the best allocation base to
use for allocating manufacturing overhead. Olney bids for jobs using a 31% markup over
total manufacturing cost.
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Requirements
After the new fiscal year began, Leftwich Paper Supply asked Olney Recycling to
bid for a job that will take 2,020 machine hours and 1,650 direct labor hours to
produce. The direct labor cost for this job will be $11 per hour, and the direct
materials will total $25,400.
Read the requirements.
Requirement 1. Compute the total job cost and bid price if Olney Recycling decided to use direct labor hours as the manufacturing overhead allocation base for the year.
First calculate the predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours. Identify the formula and then compute the rate.
= Predetermined overhead rate
1.
Compute the total job cost and bid price if Olney Recycling decided to use direct labor
hours as the manufacturing overhead allocation base for the year.
2. Compute the total job cost and bid price if Olney Recycling decided to use machine hours
as the manufacturing overhead allocation base for the year.
3.
In addition to the bid from Olney Recycling, Leftwich Paper Supply received a bid of
$126,000 for this job from Drund Recycling. What are the ramifications for Olney
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