Question

Resource Room prints custom training material for corporations. The business was started January 1, 2017. The company uses a normal-costing system. It has two direct-cost pools, materials and labor, and one indirect-cost pool, overhead. Overhead is charged to printing jobs on the basis of direct labor cost. The following information is available for 2017.
Budgeted direct labor costs……………$190,000
Budgeted overhead costs………………$266,000
Costs of actual material used………….$158,000
Actual direct labor costs…………………..$175,000
Actual overhead costs…………………….$247,200

There were two jobs in process on December 31, 2017: Job 11 and Job 12. Costs added to each job as of December 31 are as follows:

Direct Material Direct Labour
Job 11 $4,720 $5,700
Job 12 $5,090 $6,900

Resource Room has no finished-goods inventories because all printing jobs are transferred to cost of goods sold when completed.

Required:
a. Compute the overhead allocation rate.
b. Calculate the balance in ending work in process and cost of goods sold before any adjustments for under- or overallocated overhead.
c. Calculate under- or overallocated overhead.
d. Calculate the ending balances in work in process and cost of goods sold if the under- or overallocated overhead amount is as follows:

i. Written off to cost of goods sold
ii. Prorated using the overhead allocated in 2017 (before proration) in the ending balances of cost of goods sold and work-in-process control accounts

g. Which of the methods in requirement 4 would you choose? Explain.

Answer 1

Answer:

Budgeted Overhead Cost          266,000          

Budgeted Labor Cost                   190,000          

Recovery rate                       =266000/190000          

Recovery rate per labor cost     1.40          

Actual Material                             158,000          

Actual labor                                       175,000          

WIP closing                         Material    Labor          

Job 11                                4,720    5,700          

Job 12                                 5,090    6,900          

Total                                  9,810    12,600          

Transfer to Finished= Total-WIP            

Actual Material                 148,190          

Actual labor                         162,400          

Category                    Finished    WIP           Total        

Material                             148,190     9,810          158,000        

Labor                             162,400     12,600   175,000        

Overhead-Recovered      227,360      17,640     245,000

@ 140% of labor        

Balance before                537,950       40,050     578,000

adjustment to overhead

under-allocation        

Option 1-Underallocated     2,200                                     2,200  

overhead (247200-245000)

     

Balance after adjusting      540,150       40,050     580,200

overhead under-allocation        

Option 2-Underallocated        2,042           158      2,200

overhead in overhead allocated rate

       

2200*227360/245000            

2200*17640/245000            

Balance before adjustment          537,950          40,050     578,000

to overhead under-allocation        

Balance after adjusting                 539,992          40,208     580,200  

overhead under-allocation          

g. the option 2 will be chosen because a careful look at the underallocated overhead is similar to 2017 so the charge should be levied on all activity

Explanation:

Budgeted Overhead Cost          266,000          

Budgeted Labor Cost                   190,000          

Recovery rate                       =266000/190000          

Recovery rate per labor cost     1.40          

Actual Material                             158,000          

Actual labor                                       175,000          

WIP closing                         Material    Labor          

Job 11                                4,720    5,700          

Job 12                                 5,090    6,900          

Total                                  9,810    12,600          

Transfer to Finished= Total-WIP            

Actual Material                 148,190          

Actual labor                         162,400          

Category                    Finished    WIP           Total        

Material                             148,190     9,810          158,000        

Labor                             162,400     12,600   175,000        

Overhead-Recovered      227,360      17,640     245,000

@ 140% of labor        

Balance before                537,950       40,050     578,000

adjustment to overhead

under-allocation        

Option 1-Underallocated     2,200                                     2,200  

overhead (247200-245000)

     

Balance after adjusting      540,150       40,050     580,200

overhead under-allocation        

Option 2-Underallocated        2,042           158      2,200

overhead in overhead allocated rate

       

2200*227360/245000            

2200*17640/245000            

Balance before adjustment          537,950          40,050     578,000

to overhead under-allocation        

Balance after adjusting                 539,992          40,208     580,200  

overhead under-allocation          

g. the option 2 will be chosen because a careful look at the underallocated overhead is similar to 2017 so the charge should be levied on all activity