question of whether direct labor should be viewed as a variable cost can be confusing‚ but I feel should be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Classifying direct labor as a variable cost requires management to make continuous adjustments to the workforce that only addresses their short-term employment needs and may not be beneficial in the long run for their business. It is very important for managers and accountants to understand the need to appropriately classify these costs because of the negative
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Manufacturing Overhead Name Institution Manufacturing Overhead Manufacturing overhead costs play a vital role in determining final cost of the product. Manufacturing overhead represents all the costs that the company incurs indirectly and not related to the cost of direct labor‚ direct materials or direct cost of machines (Donald‚ 2010). In short‚ companies are not able to trace these costs to individual items during the manufacturing process. Examples of overhead costs
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THE BUSINESS SITUATION Greetings Inc. has operated for many years as a nationally recognized retailer of greeting cards and small gift items. It has 1‚500 stores throughout the United States located in high-traffic malls. As the stock price of many other companies soared‚ Greetings’ stock price remained flat. As a result of a heated 2007 shareholders’ meeting‚ the president of Greetings‚ Robert Burns‚ came under pressure from shareholders to grow Greetings’ stock value. As a consequence
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1. A company uses a predetermined overhead recovery rate based on machine hours. Budgeted factory overhead for a year amounted to £720 000‚ but actual factory overhead incurred was £738 000. During the year‚ the company absorbed £714 000 of factory overhead on 119 000 actual machine hours. What was the company’s budgeted level of machine hours for the year? A 116098 B 119000
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Brentwood Associates uses a job-order costing system and applies overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. At the beginning of the year‚ management estimated that 26‚000 direct labor hours would be worked and $1‚300‚000 of manufacturing overhead costs would be incurred. During the year‚ the company actually worked 24‚000 direct labor hours and incurred the following manufacturing costs: Direct materials used in production $1‚240‚000 Direct labor 1‚800‚000 Indirect labor 280‚000 Indirect materials
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To: Patrick Oray Company: Plastic Composites Inc. From: Jane Doe Date: March 1‚ 2012 RE: Allocation Options for Fixed Manufacturing Overhead Costs Dear Mr. Oray‚ After researching the different methods allowed for you to use in allocating the fixed manufacturing costs to the work in process and finished goods I have come to the conclusion that normal capacity is the best method for your business. First I will define theoretical‚ practical and normal capacity and then I will explain to
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Sippican’s cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? 2. Calculate the practical capacity and the capacity cost rates for each of Sippican’s resources: production and setup employees‚ machines‚ receiving and production control employees‚ shipping and packaging employees‚ and engineers. 3. Use these capacity cost rates and the
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Manufacturing overhead (also known as factory overhead‚ factory burden‚ production overhead) involves a company’s factory operations. It includes the costs incurred in the factory other than the costs of direct materials and direct labor. This is the reason that manufacturing overhead is often classified as an indirect product cost. Generally accepted accounting principles require that cost of direct material cost‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead be considered as the cost of products for
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What Happened to Direct Labor An Article Critique Presented to the Accountancy Department De La Salle University In partial fulfillment Of the course requirements In MODCOS1 K34 SUBMITTED TO: Dr. Merlinda Bucad SUBMITTED BY: Hipolito‚ Chelsea Marie Y. July 15‚ 2013 ------------------------------------------------- ARTICLE CRITIQUE What Happened To Direct Labor Posted on May 9‚ 2013 by Bill Horst‚ CPA‚ CMA‚ CGMA Costing For Profitability http://costingblog.wvco.com/2013/05/09/what-happened-to-direct-labor/
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Majestic‚ which sells for $1‚200. The production cost per unit for each model in 2012 is shown on the next page. | |Royale |Majestic | |Direct Materials |$ 700 |$420 | |Direct labor ($20 per hour) |100 |80 | |Manufacturing Overhead ($40 per DLH) | 200
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