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Chapter 16: 112RQ (page 885)
Give five examples of manufacturing overhead.
Examples of manufacturing overhead are indirect labor, indirect materials, repair, and maintenance cost, property tax, and rent.
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How does a merchandising company calculate unit cost per item?
Power Switch, Inc. designs and manufactures switches used in telecommunications. Serious flooding throughout North Carolina affected Power Switch’s facilities. Inventory was completely ruined, and the company’s computer system, including all accounting records, was destroyed.
Before the disaster recovery specialists clean the buildings, Stephen Plum, the company controller, is anxious to salvage whatever records he can to support an insurance claim for the destroyed inventory. He is standing in what is left of the accounting department with Paul Lopez, the cost accountant.
“I didn’t know mud could smell so bad,” Paul says. “What should I be looking for?”
“Don’t worry about beginning inventory numbers,” responds Stephen, “we’ll get them from last year’s annual report. We need first-quarter cost data.”
“I was working on the first-quarter results just before the storm hit,” Paul says. “Look, my report is still in my desk drawer. All I can make out is that for the first quarter, direct material purchases were \(476,000 and direct labor, manufacturing overhead, and total manufacturing costs to account for were \)505,000, \(245,000, and \)1,425,000, respectively. Wait! Cost of goods available for sale was \(1,340,000.”
“Great,” says Stephen. “I remember that sales for the period were approximately \)1,700,000. Given our gross profit of 30%, that’s all you should need.”
Paul is not sure about that but decides to see what he can do with this information. The beginning inventory numbers were:
• Direct Materials, \(113,000
• Work-in-Process, \)229,000
• Finished Goods, $154,000
Requirements
1. Prepare a schedule showing each inventory account and the increases and decreases to each account. Use it to determine the ending inventories of Direct Materials, Work-in-Process, and Finished Goods.
2. Itemize a list of the cost of inventory lost.
Computing manufacturing overhead
Sunglasses Unlimited Company manufactures sunglasses. Following is a list of costs the company incurred during May. Use the list to calculate the total manufacturing overhead costs for the month.
Glue for frames $ 250
Depreciation on company cars used by sales force 4,000
Plant depreciation 7,500
Interest Expense 1,500
Lenses 52,000
Company president’s salary 24,500
Plant foreman’s salary 3,500
Plant janitor’s wages 1,300
Oil for manufacturing equipment 150
Identify the following characteristics as primarily related to financial accounting (FA) or managerial accounting (MA):
4. Has a focus on the future.
Question:Applying ethical standards
Natalia Wallace is the new controller for Smart Software, Inc. which develops and sells education software. Shortly before the December 31 fiscal year-end, James Cauvet, the company president, asks Wallace how things look for the year-end numbers. He is not happy to learn that earnings growth may be below 13% for the first time in the company’s five-year history. Cauvet explains that financial analysts have again predicted a 13% earnings growth for the company and that he does not intend to disappoint them. He suggests that Wallace talk to the assistant controller, who can explain how the previous controller dealt with such situations. The assistant controller suggests the following strategies:
a. Persuade suppliers to postpone billing \(13,000 in invoices until January 1.
b. Record as sales \)115,000 in certain software awaiting sale that is held in a public warehouse.
c. Delay the year-end closing a few days into January of the next year so that some of the next year’s sales are included in this year’s sales.
d. Reduce the estimated Bad Debts Expense from 5% of Sales Revenue to 3%, given the company’s continued strong performance.
e. Postpone routine monthly maintenance expenditures from December to January.
Requirements
1. Which of these suggested strategies are inconsistent with IMA standards?
2. How might these inconsistencies affect the company’s creditors and stockholders?
3. What should Wallace do if Cauvet insists that she follow all of these suggestions?
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