BEGINNING POSITION:
JayBird Inc. is a small company that constructs custom bird houses in London, Ontario. It uses a job order costing system because each bird house is custom build for its owner and therefore receives varying attention and effort from the two departments, building and finishing. JayBird Inc. uses a perpetual inventory system. JayBird Inc. had the following postclosing trial balance as of December :
Cash $
Accounts Receivable
Raw Materials Inventory
Work in Process Inventory
Finished Goods Inventory
Unexpired Insurance
Office Equipment
Accumulated amortization Office Eqmt $
Factory Equipment
Accumulated Amortization Factory Eqmt
Accounts Payable
Wages and Salaries Payable
Accrued Utilities
Accrued Property Taxes
Capital Stock
Retained Earnings
Detail in Subsidiary Records
As of December
Work in process:
Job order Dep't Direct Direct Factory Total
Number Materials Labour Overhead Cost
Building $ $ $ $
Finishing $ $ $ $
$
Finished goods:
Stock # Reference Quantity Unit Cost Total Cost
X Job $
X Job $
$
Raw materials:
RM Type Quantity Unit Cost Total Cost
A A
B B
C C
Supplies Various $
Labour costs and overhead costs:
The hourly rate including benefits for Building is $D and for finishing is $E
To cost jobs as they are worked on a predetermined or budgeted overhead rate was computed for based on the following budgeted cost drivers:
Building department machine hours
Finishing department $ of direct labour
These overhead rates will be used throughout the year by each department. All overhead will be applied to all jobs worked on during the year in proportion to the machinehour andor directlabour cost devoted to each job. JayBird Inc. rents its factory building.
This budget was prepared after careful consideration of the sales outlook for the coming year. The forecasted budget consisted of the following items:
JayBird Inc.
Factory Overhead Budget
For The Year Ended December
Building Finishing Total
Variable costs:
Supplies $ $ $
Indirect Labour
Utilities
Repairs
Misc.
Fixed costs:
Insurance $
Amortization
Rent
Property taxes
Supervision
Total Factory Overhead $ $ $
FOH rate budgeted FOH
budgeted cost driver
TRANSACTIONS:
The following transactions occurred during the month of January :
Purchases of raw materials on account:
RM Type Units $$
Receiving report # A
Receiving report # B
Receiving report # A
Receiving report # B
Receiving report # C
Receiving report # B
Receiving report # Supplies NA $
Assume that costs have not changed in the last year.
Returns on account: units of material Breceiving report #
The direct material requisitions were summarized, and the following data were shown on a material usage report.
Building Department
Direct Material Usage
For the Month Ended January
Requisition RM Type Job Order Quantity
M B
M A
M A
M B
M B
M B
M A
Finishing Department
Direct Material Usage
For the Month Ended January
Requisition Type Job Order Quantity
A C
A C
A C
A C
A C
A summary of payroll costs incurred as per the time tickets is as follows:
Actual Labour Hours Worked
For the Month Ended January
Work Job
Ticket Order Building Finishing
ML
ML
ML
ML
ML
ML
AL
AL
AL
AL
AL
Total direct labour
Other payroll costs:
Building Finishing Total
Indirect labour $ $ $
Factory Supervision $ $ $
Selling and admin. Wages $
Apply overhead to jobs. See data for item to obtain machine hours worked. A direct laborer operates more than one machine