Question

Favre and Carter Law Office employ 12 full-time attorneys and 5 paraprofessionals. Budgeted salaries include $100,000 for each attorney and $30,000 per paraprofessional. For 20x1, indirect costs were budgeted at $250,000, but actually amounted to $300,000. Actual salaries were $110,000 for each attorney and $30,000 for each paraprofessional. Direct and indirect costs are applied on a professional labor-hour basis that includes both attorney and paraprofessional hours. Total budgeted labor-hours were 50,000; however, actual labor-hours were 60,000.
How much should the client be billed in a normal costing system which uses budgeted rate and cost allocations are based on actual data, when 1,000 professional labor-hours were used?
a. $27,000
b. $32,000
c. $34,800
d. $37,400

Answer 1

Answer:

Billed costs= $32,000

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

Total estimated cost attorney= 12*100,000= $1,200,000

Total estimated cost paraprofessional= 5*30,000= $150,000

Estimated Indirect costs= $250,000

Estimated number of hours= 50,000

First, we need to calculate the allocation rate:

Allocation rate= total estimated costs for the period/ total amount of allocation base

Allocation rate=   (1,200,000 + 150,000 + 250,000) / 50,000

Allocation rate= 1,600,000/50,000

Allocation rate= $32

Now, for 1,000 hours:

Billed costs= 1,000*32= $32,000