Accounting Principles: Job Order Costing
Accounting Principles: Job Order Costing
Thirteenth Edition
Weygandt Kimmel Kieso
Chapter 20
ILLUSTRATION 2.1
Process cost system
4. Fry 5. Bag
ILLUSTRATION 20.2
Job order cost system for Disney
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Cost Accounting Systems
Job Order Cost Flow
Flow of costs parallels physical flow of materials as
they are converted into finished goods
Manufacturing costs are assigned to Work in Process
(WIP) Inventory account
Cost of completed jobs is transferred to Finished Goods
Inventory account
When units are sold, cost is transferred to Cost of
Goods Sold account
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Job Order Cost Flow
Basic overview of flow of costs in a manufacturing setting for
production of a fire truck.
ILLUSTRATION 20.3
Flow of costs in job order costing
Manufacturing Overhead
13,800
6,000
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ILLUSTRATION 20.6
Job cost sheets–posting of
direct materials
Post individual
direct
materials
requisition
slips to job
cost sheets
Manufacturing Overhead
13,800
6,000
4,000
Actual
Predetermined is
Activity
x Overhead assigned
Base to
Rate
Used Job 1 Job 2 Job 3
ILLUSTRATION 20.10
Using predetermined overhead rates
ILLUSTRATION 20.13
Proof of job cost sheets to work in process inventory
ILLUSTRATION 20.18
Under- and overapplied overhead