acct exam 1

The PC Works assembles custom computers from components supplied by various manufacturers. The company is very small and its assembly shop and retail sales store are housed in a single facility in a Redmond, Washington, industrial park. Listed below are some of the costs that the company incurs. Required: For each cost, indicate whether it would most likely be classified as direct materials, direct labor, manufacturing overhead, selling, or an administrative cost.

Chapter 1 Question 1

Cherokee Incorporated is a merchandiser that provided the following information: Required: 1. Prepare a traditional income statement. 2. Prepare a contribution format income statement.

Chapter 1 Question 3

Taveras Corporation is currently operating at 50% of its available manufacturing capacity. It uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: Required: 1. Compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. During the year, Job P90 was started, completed, and sold to the customer for $2,500. The following information was available with respect to this job: Compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job P90.

Chapter 2 Question 3

Kubin Company's relevant range of production is 18,000 to 22,000 units. When it produces and sells 20,000 units, its average costs per unit are as follows: Required: 1. Assume the cost object is units of production: a. What is the total direct manufacturing cost incurred to make 20,000 units? b. What is the total indirect manufacturing cost incurred to make 20,000 units? 2. Assume the cost object is the Manufacturing Department and that its total output is 20,000 units. a. How much total manufacturing cost is directly traceable to the Manufacturing Department? b. How much total manufacturing cost is an indirect cost that cannot be easily traced to the Manufacturing Department? 3. Assume the cost object is the company's various sales representatives. Furthermore, assume that the company spent $50,000 of its total fixed selling expense on advertising and the remainder of the total fixed selling expense comprised the fixed portion of the company's sales representatives' compensation. a. When the company sells 20,000 units, what is the total direct selling expense that can be readily traced to individual sales representatives? b. When the company sells 20,000 units, what is the total indirect selling expense that cannot be readily traced to individual sales representatives?

Chapter 1 Question 4

Kubin Company's relevant range of production is 18,000 to 22,000 units. When it produces and sells 20,000 units, its average costs per unit are as follows: Required: 1. If 18,000 units are produced and sold, what is the variable cost per unit produced and sold? 2. If 22,000 units are produced and sold, what is the variable cost per unit produced and sold? 3. If 18,000 units are produced and sold, what is the total amount of variable cost related to the units produced and sold? 4. If 22,000 units are produced and sold, what is the total amount of variable cost related to the units produced and sold? 5. If 18,000 units are produced, what is the average fixed manufacturing cost per unit produced? 6. If 22,000 units are produced, what is the average fixed manufacturing cost per unit produced? 7. If 18,000 units are produced, what is the total amount of fixed manufacturing overhead incurred to support this level of production? 8. If 22,000 units are produced, what is the total amount of fixed manufacturing overhead incurred to support this level of production?

Chapter 1 Question 6

Kubin Company's relevant range of production is 18,000 to 22,000 units. When it produces and sells 20,000 units, its average costs per unit are as follows: Required: 1. What is the incremental manufacturing cost incurred if the company increases production from 20,000 to 20,001 units? 2. What is the incremental cost incurred if the company increases production and sales from 20,000 to 20,001 units? 3. Assume that Kubin Company produced 20,000 units and expects to sell 19,800 of them. If a new customer unexpectedly emerges and expresses interest in buying the 200 extra units that have been produced by the company and that would otherwise remain unsold, what is the incremental manufacturing cost per unit incurred to sell these units to the customer? 4. Assume that Kubin Company produced 20,000 units and expects to sell 19,800 of them. If a new customer unexpectedly emerges and expresses interest in buying the 200 extra units that have been produced by the company and that would otherwise remain unsold, what incremental selling and administrative cost per unit is incurred to sell these units to the customer?

Chapter 1 Question 7

The Alpine House, Incorporated, is a large retailer of snow skis. The company assembled the information shown below for the quarter ended March 31: Required: 1. Prepare a traditional income statement for the quarter ended March 31. 2. Prepare a contribution format income statement for the quarter ended March 31. 3. What was the contribution margin per unit?

Chapter 1 Question 8

Suppose that you have been given a summer job as an intern at Issac Aircams, a company that manufactures sophisticated spy cameras for remote-controlled military reconnaissance aircraft. The company, which is privately owned, has approached a bank for a loan to help finance its growth. The bank requires financial statements before approving the loan. Required: Classify each cost listed below as either a product cost or a period cost for the purpose of preparing financial statements for the bank.

Chapter 1 question 2

Kubin Company's relevant range of production is 18,000 to 22,000 units. When it produces and sells 20,000 units, its average costs per unit are as follows: Required: 1. For financial accounting purposes, what is the total amount of product costs incurred to make 20,000 units? 2. For financial accounting purposes, what is the total amount of period costs incurred to sell 20,000 units? 3. For financial accounting purposes, what is the total amount of product costs incurred to make 22,000 units? 4. For financial accounting purposes, what is the total amount of period costs incurred to sell 18,000 units?

Chapter 1 Question 5

Dozier Company produced and sold 1,000 units during its first month of operations. It reported the following costs and expenses for the month: Required: 1. With respect to cost classifications for preparing financial statements: a. What is the total product cost? b. What is the total period cost? 2. With respect to cost classifications for assigning costs to cost objects: a. What is total direct manufacturing cost? b. What is the total indirect manufacturing cost? 3. With respect to cost classifications for manufacturers: a. What is the total manufacturing cost? b. What is the total nonmanufacturing cost? c. What is the total conversion cost and prime cost? 4. With respect to cost classifications for predicting cost behavior: a. What is the total variable manufacturing cost? b. What is the total fixed cost for the company as a whole? c. What is the variable cost per unit produced and sold? 5. With respect to cost classifications for decision making: a. If Dozier had produced 1,001 units instead of 1,000 units, how much incremental manufacturing cost would it have incurred to make the additional unit?

Chapter 1 Question 9

Mickley Company's plantwide predetermined overhead rate is $14.00 per direct labor-hour and its direct labor wage rate is $17.00 per hour. The following information pertains to Job A-500: Required: 1. What is the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job A-500? 2. If Job A-500 consists of 40 units, what is the unit product cost for this job? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Chapter 2 Question 1

Fickel Company has two manufacturing departments—Assembly and Testing & Packaging. The predetermined overhead rates in Assembly and Testing & Packaging are $16.00 per direct labor-hour and $12.00 per direct labor-hour, respectively. The company's direct labor wage rate is $20.00 per hour. The following information pertains to Job N-60: Required: 1. What is the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job N-60? 2. If Job N-60 consists of 10 units, what is the unit product cost for this job? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Chapter 2 Question 2

Sigma Corporation applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of direct labor cost. Job V, which was started and completed during the current period, shows charges of $5,000 for direct materials, $8,000 for direct labor, and $6,000 for overhead on its job cost sheet. Job W, which is still in process at year-end, shows charges of $2,500 for direct materials and $4,000 for direct labor. Required: 1a. Should any overhead cost be applied to Job W at year-end? 1b. How much overhead cost should be applied to Job W? 2. How will the costs included in Job W's job cost sheet be reported within Sigma Corporation's financial statements at the end of the year?

Chapter 2 Question 4

Kingsport Containers Company makes a single product that is subject to wide seasonal variations in demand. The company uses a job-order costing system and computes plantwide predetermined overhead rates on a quarterly basis using the number of units to be produced as the allocation base. Its estimated costs, by quarter, for the coming year are given below: Management finds the variation in quarterly unit product costs to be confusing. It has been suggested that the problem lies with manufacturing overhead because it is the largest element of total manufacturing cost. Accordingly, you have been asked to find a more appropriate way of assigning manufacturing overhead cost to units of product. Required: 1. Assuming the estimated variable manufacturing overhead cost per unit is $2.00, what must be the estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead cost per quarter? 2. Assuming the assumptions about cost behavior from the first three quarters hold constant, what is the estimated unit product cost for the fourth quarter? 3. What is causing the estimated unit product cost to fluctuate from one quarter to the next? 4. Assuming the company computes one predetermined overhead rate for the year rather than computing quarterly overhead rates, calculate the unit product cost for all units produced during the year.

Chapter 2 Question 5

Moody Corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: Required: 1. Compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. During the year, Job 400 was started and completed. The following information was available with respect to this job: Compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 400. 3. If Job 400 includes 52 units, what is the unit product cost for this job? 4. If Moody uses a markup percentage of 120% of its total manufacturing cost, then what selling price per unit would it have established for Job 400?

Chapter 2 Question 6

Speedy Auto Repairs uses a job-order costing system. The company's direct materials consist of replacement parts installed in customer vehicles, and its direct labor consists of the mechanics' hourly wages. Speedy's overhead costs include various items, such as the shop manager's salary, depreciation of equipment, utilities, insurance, and magazine subscriptions and refreshments for the waiting room. The company applies all of its overhead costs to jobs based on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, it made the following estimates: Required: 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate. 2. During the year, Mr. Wilkes brought in his vehicle to replace his brakes, spark plugs, and tires. The following information was available with respect to his job: Compute Mr. Wilkes' total job cost. 3. If Speedy establishes its selling prices using a markup percentage of 40% of its total job cost, then how much would it have charged Mr. Wilkes?

Chapter 2 Question 7

Larned Corporation recorded the following transactions for the just completed month. a. $80,000 in raw materials were purchased on account. b. $71,000 in raw materials were used in production. Of this amount, $62,000 was for direct materials and the remainder was for indirect materials. c. Total labor wages of $112,000 were paid in cash. Of this amount, $101,000 was for direct labor and the remainder was for indirect labor. d. Depreciation of $175,000 was incurred on factory equipment. Required: Record the above transactions in journal entries. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)

Chapter 3 Question 1

Jurvin Enterprises is a manufacturing company that had no beginning inventories. A subset of the transactions that it recorded during a recent month is shown below. a. $94,000 in raw materials were purchased for cash. b. $89,000 in raw materials were used in production. Of this amount, $78,000 was for direct materials and the remainder was for indirect materials. c. Total labor wages of $132,000 were incurred and paid. Of this amount, $112,000 was for direct labor and the remainder was for indirect labor. d. Additional manufacturing overhead costs of $143,000 were incurred and paid. e. Manufacturing overhead of $152,000 was applied to production using the company's predetermined overhead rate. f. All of the jobs in process at the end of the month were completed. g. All of the completed jobs were shipped to customers. h. Any underapplied or overapplied overhead for the period was closed to Cost of Goods Sold. Required: 1. Post the above transactions to T-accounts. 2. Determine the adjusted cost of goods sold for the period.

Chapter 3 Question 2

The following cost data relate to the manufacturing activities of Chang Company during the just completed year: The company uses a predetermined overhead rate of $25 per machine-hour to apply overhead cost to jobs. A total of 19,400 machine-hours were used during the year. Required: 1. Compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead cost for the year. 2. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for the year.

Chapter 3 Question 3

The following information is taken from the accounts of Latta Company. The entries in the T-accounts are summaries of the transactions that affected those accounts during the year. The overhead that had been applied to production during the year is distributed among Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold as of the end of the year as follows: For example, of the $40,000 ending balance in work in process, $19,500 was overhead that had been applied during the year. Required: 1. Identify reasons for entries (a) through (d). 2. Assume that the underapplied or overapplied overhead is closed to Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the necessary journal entry. 3. Assume that the underapplied or overapplied overhead is closed proportionally to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the necessary journal entry.

Chapter 3 Question 4

Harwood Company uses a job-order costing system that applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours. The company's predetermined overhead rate of $2.40 per machine-hour was based on a cost formula that estimates $192,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 80,000 machine-hours. Required: 1. Assume that during the year the company works only 75,000 machine-hours and incurs the following costs in the Manufacturing Overhead and Work in Process accounts: Compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to Work in Process for the year and make the entry in your T-accounts. 2A. Compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year and show the balance in your Manufacturing Overhead T-account. 2B. Prepare a journal entry to close the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold.

Chapter 3 Question 5

Luzadis Company makes furniture using the latest automated technology. The company uses a job-order costing system and applies manufacturing overhead cost to products on the basis of machine-hours. The predetermined overhead rate was based on a cost formula that estimates $900,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 75,000 machine-hours. During the year, a large quantity of furniture on the market resulted in cutting back production and a buildup of furniture in the company's warehouse. The company's cost records revealed the following actual cost and operating data for the year: Required: 1. Compute the underapplied or overapplied overhead. 2. Assume that the company closes any underapplied or overapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the appropriate journal entry. 3. Assume that the company allocates any underapplied or overapplied overhead proportionally to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the appropriate journal entry. 4. How much higher or lower will net operating income be if the underapplied or overapplied overhead is allocated to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold rather than being closed to Cost of Goods Sold?

Chapter 3 Question 6

Gold Nest Company of Guandong, China, is a family-owned enterprise that makes birdcages for the South China market. The company sells its birdcages through an extensive network of street vendors who receive commissions on their sales. The company uses a job-order costing system in which overhead is applied to jobs on the basis of direct labor cost. Its predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $330,000 of manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of $200,000 direct labor dollars. At the beginning of the year, the inventory balances were as follows: During the year, the following transactions were completed: a. Raw materials purchased on account, $275,000. b. Raw materials used in production, $280,000 (materials costing $220,000 were charged directly to jobs; the remaining materials were indirect). c. Costs for employee services were incurred as follows: d. Rent for the year was $18,000 ($13,000 of this amount related to factory operations, and the remainder related to selling and administrative activities). e. Utility costs incurred in the factory, $57,000. f. Advertising costs incurred, $140,000. g. Depreciation recorded on equipment, $100,000. ($88,000 of this amount related to equipment used in factory operations; the remaining $12,000 related to equipment used in selling and administrative activities.) h. Manufacturing overhead cost was applied to jobs, $ ? . i. Goods that had cost $675,000 to manufacture according to their job cost sheets were completed. j. Sales for the year (all paid in cash) totaled $1,250,000. The total cost to manufacture these goods according to their job cost sheets was $700,000. Required: 1. Prepare journal entries to record the transactions for the year. 2. Prepare T-accounts for each inventory account, Manufacturing Overhead, and Cost of Goods Sold. Post relevant data from your journal entries to these T-accounts (don't forget to enter the beginning balances in your inventory accounts). 3A. Is Manufacturing Overhead underapplied or overapplied for the year? 3B. Prepare a journal entry to close any balance in the Manufacturing Overhead account to Cost of Goods Sold. 4. Prepare an income statement for the year. (All of the information needed for the income statement is available in the journal entries and T-accounts you have prepared.)

Chapter 3 Question 7