Job Costing
Job Costing
Job Costing
The following information is given regarding a specific job which passes through three departments: X,
Y, and Z.
Departments
X Y Z
Materials $ 8000 $ 1000 $ 500
Direct Labor Hour 1000 2000 5000
Rate of Direct Labor per hour $1.00 $1.50 $2.00
Scrap of material sold $1000 $150 $100
Total overhead for the departments $10,000 $15,000 $25,000
Total Labor per hour for the departments 10,000 30,000 40,000
Departments
The expenses shown below were incurred for a job during the year ended on 31 March 2019.
Required: You are required to prepare a statement showing the profit earned from the job during the year
ended 31 March 2019, as well as an estimated price of a job which is to be executed in the year 2019-20.
You should charge the same percentage of profit on sales as was the case for the year 2019. Materials,
wages, and chargeable expenses will be required at $50,000, $70,000, and $20,000, respectively, for the
job.
The various overheads should be recovered on the following basis while calculating the estimated price:
Factory overheads as a percentage of direct wages
Administrative and selling and distribution overheads as a percentage of factory cost
Solution:
Particulars $
Direct Materials $ 30,000
Direct Wages $40,000
Chargeable Expense $10,000
Prime Cost $80,000
Factory overhead for the departments $20,000
Factory Cost $1,00,000
Administrative overhead $30,000
Total Cost of production $1,30,000
Selling overhead $20,000
Selling Cost $1,50,000
Profit $30,000
Sale Price $1,80,000
Particulars $
Direct Materials $50,000
Direct Wages $70,000
Chargeable Expense $20,000
Prime Cost $1,40,000
Factory overhead for the departments (50% on wages) $35,000
Factory Cost $1,75,000
Administrative overhead (30% on Factory cost) $52,500
Cost of production $2,27,500
Selling overhead (20% on Factory cost) $35,000
Selling Cost $2,62,500
Profit $52,500
Sale Price $3,15,000
(a) Show the Factory overhead and Total Cost, the percentages that the Factory overhead cost bears to the
Machine Labor Wages and the percentage that the Administrative overhead bear to the Factory overhead.
(b) What price should the Company quote to manufacture a machine which, it is estimated, will require an
expenditure of Rs.8,000 in material and Rs.6,000 in wages, so that it will yield a profit of 25% on the total
cost or 20% on the selling price.
Problem 4: The following direct costs were incurred on Job. No. 212 of ‘P’ Company:
$
Direct materials used 4,010
Direct wages: Dept. A -60 hrs- tk. 3 per hour
Dept. B -40 hrs- tk. 2 per hour
Dept. C -20 hrs- tk. 5 per hour
Overhead Expenses:
Variable- Dept. A - tk. 5,000 for 5,000 hrs
Dept. B - tk. 3,000 for 1,500 hrs
Dept. C - tk. 2,000 for 500 hrs
Fixed- tk. 20,000 for 10,000 hrs (Normal working
hours)
You are required to calculate the cost of Job. No. 212 and calculate the price that yield a profit of 25% on
the selling price.