Accounting (Text Only)
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Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
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Chapter 19, Problem 19.3CP
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Salvo Inc., a specialized equipment manufacturer, uses a
Our accounting system doesn’t make any sense to me. It tells me that every labor hour carries an additional burden of$ 1,500. This means that direct labor makes up only 6% of our total product cost, yet it drives all our costs.
In addition, these rates give my design engineers incentives to “design out” direct labor by using machine technology. Yet, over the past years as we have had less and less direct labor, the overhead rate keeps going up and up. I won’t be surprised if next year the rate is $2,000 per direct labor hour. I’m also concerned because small errors in our estimates of the direct labor content can have a large impact on our estimated costs. Just a 30-minute error in our estimate of assembly time is worth $750. Small mistakes in our direct labor time estimates really swing our bids around. I think this puts us at a disadvantage when we are going after business.
1. What is the engineer's concern about the overhead rate going “up and up”?
2. What did the engineer mean about the large overhead rate being a disadvantage when placing bids and seeking new business?
3. What do you think is a possible solution?
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O’Leary Corporation manufactures special purpose portable structures (huts, mobile offices, and so on) for use at construction sites. It only builds to order (each unit is built to customer specifications). O’Leary uses a normal job costing system. Direct labor at O’Leary is paid $30 per hour, but the employees are not paid if they are not working on jobs. Manufacturing overhead is assigned to jobs by a predetermined rate on the basis of direct labor-hours. The company incurred manufacturing overhead costs during two recent years (adjusted for price-level changes using current prices and wage rates) as follows.
Year 1
Year 2
Direct labor-hours worked
69,600
56,600
Manufacturing overhead costs incurred
Indirect labor
$
2,864,000
$
2,264,000
Employee benefits
1,044,000
849,000
Supplies
696,000
566,000
Power…
Which of the following is not a reason to allocate overhead?
Some overhead costs are seasonal and should be spread over production for the entire year.
Unlike direct materials and direct labor, the amount of overhead actually incurred may not be known at the time a job is being worked on.
Allocation is more accurate than tracing items directly to jobs.
Manufacturing overhead is an indirect cost that cannot be physically or economically traced back to a specific item.
Chapter 19 Solutions
Accounting (Text Only)
Ch. 19 - a. Name two principal types of cost accounting...Ch. 19 - What kind of firm would use a job order cost...Ch. 19 - Prob. 3DQCh. 19 - Prob. 4DQCh. 19 - What is a job cost sheet?Ch. 19 - Prob. 6DQCh. 19 - Discuss how the predetermined factory overhead...Ch. 19 - a. How is a predetermined factory overhead rate...Ch. 19 - a. What is (1) overapplied factory overhead and...Ch. 19 - Describe how a job order cost system can be used...
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