Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March- Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March): Estimated total machine-hours used Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour Molding Fabrication Total 1,500 $15,150 $ 2.30 2,500 $10,250 $ 1.50 4,000 $25,400 Job Q $8,500 $7,900 Job P Direct materials Direct labor cost Actual machine-hours used: Molding Fabrication Total $14,000 $21,800 1,800 700 2,500 900 1,000 1,900 Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.
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.
![Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has
two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March-
Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all
data and questions relate to the month of March):
2,500
$10,250
24
Molding Fabrication Total
1,500
$15,150
24
Estimated total machine-hours used
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour
4,000
$25,400
1.50
2.30
Direct materials
Direct labor cost
Actual machine-hours used:
Job P
$14,000
$21,800
Job Q
$8,500
$7,900
Molding
Fabrication
900
1,800
700
1,000
1,900
Total
2,500
Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.
Required:
For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as
the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined oerhead rates with
machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F6d2c05da-2281-4d4e-a11e-545b09aeadfd%2F61eaa9b5-4dad-4da2-8a97-a109d553331d%2Fu4034l_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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4. If Job P included 20 units, what was its unit product cost? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to
nearest whole dollar.)
Unit product cost](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F6d2c05da-2281-4d4e-a11e-545b09aeadfd%2F61eaa9b5-4dad-4da2-8a97-a109d553331d%2Fd9j09nh_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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