If Chance Consulting wants to earn a profit that equals 35% of the job’s cost, how much should the company bid for the Juda Resources job?

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Chance Consulting, a consulting firm, specializes in advising companies on creating business plans.  Chance Consulting uses a job cost system with a predetermined indirect cost allocation rate computed as a percentage of expected direct labor costs. 

 

At the beginning of the year, managing partner Sarah Chance prepared the following plan, or budget, for the year:

Direct labor hours (professionals)

19,000 hours

Direct labor costs (professionals)

$2,650,000

Office rent

$260,000

Support Staff Salaries

$870,000

Utilities

$340,000

 

Juda Resources is inviting several consulting firms to bid for work.  Chance estimates that this job will require about 220 direct labor hours.

 

  1. Compute Chance Consulting’s hourly direct labor cost rate and their indirect cost allocation rate
  2. What is the estimate cost for the Juda Resources Consulting Contract?
  3. If Chance Consulting wants to earn a profit that equals 35% of the job’s cost, how much should the company bid for the Juda Resources job?

 

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