Characteristics of Production Process, Cost Measurement Vince Melders, of EcoScape Company, designs and installs custom lawn and garden irrigation systems for homes and businesses throughout the state. Each job is different, requiring different materials and labor for installing the systems. EcoScape estimated the following for the year: Number of direct labor hours 6,990 Direct labor cost $69,900 Overhead cost $50,328 During the year, the following actual amounts were experienced: Number of direct labor hours 6,050 Direct labor incurred $66,550 Overhead incurred $48,043.05 Required: 1. Should EcoScape use process costing or job-order costing? Job-order costing 2. If EcoScape uses a normal costing system and overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor hours, What is the overhead rate? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ 7.2 per direct labor hour What is the average actual wage rate? $ 7.94 per direct labor hour What is the cost of an installation that takes $3,540 of direct materials and 30 direct labor hours? $

In job order costing the cost accounting procedures are designed to assign costs to each job. Then the costs assigned to each job are averaged over the units of production in the job to obtain an average cost per unit.

A process costing system accumulates all production costs for a large number of units of outputs and then these costs are averaged over all the units.

1) As each job is different, requiring different materials and labor for installing the systems Job-order costing will be used.

2) If normal costing is used then the Overhead cost are $50,328

Number of direct labor hours are 6,990

The overhead rate=Overhead costs/ Number of direct labor hours

The overhead rate=$50,328/6,990= $ 7.2 per direct labor hour

3) The average actual wage rate = Actual Overhead costs / Number of direct labor hours

The average actual wage rate = $48,043.05/ 6,050=$ 7.941 per direct labor hour

4) Direct materials=$3,540

Direct labor hours= 30

Actual Direct Labor rate = ($66,550/6,050 )= $ 11

Direct Labor = ($66,550/6,050 )*30 =11*30=$ 330

Overheads 30 *7.941= $ 238.23

Cost of installation= $3,540 +$ 330+$ 238.23= $ 4108.23