McBride and Associates employs two professional appraisers, each having a different specialty. Debbie specializes in commercialappraisals and Tara specializes in residential appraisals. The company expects to incur total overhead costs of $394,200 during theyear and applies overhead based on annual salary costs. The salaries and billable hours of the two appraisers are estimated to be asfollows:Debbie$173,8802,300TaraAnnual Salary$88,9201,950Billable HoursThe accountant for McBride and Associates is computing the hourly rate that should be used to charge clients for Debbie and Tara'sservices. The hourly billing rate should be set to cover the total cost of services (salary plus overhead) plus a 20 percent markup.Required:1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate.2. Compute the hourly billing rate for Debbie and Tara.

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Required: 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate. 2. Compute the hourly billing rate for Debbie and Tara.

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Chapter17: Activity Resource Usage Model And Tactical Decision Making

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R. Herbert of Crestview Manufacturing Co. is paid at the rate of 20 an hour for an eight-hour day, with time-and-a-half for overtime and double-time for Sundays and holidays. Regular employment is on the basis of 40 hours a week, five days a week. At the end of a week, the labor time record shows the following: Because jobs are randomly scheduled for the overtime period, any overtime premium is charged to Factory Overhead. a. Compute Herberts total earnings for the week. b. Present the journal entry to distribute Herberts total earnings. (Note: These single journal entries here and in E3-2, E3-3, E3-4, E3-8 and E3-9 are for the purpose of illustrating the principle involved. Normally, the entries would be made for the total factory payroll plus the administrative and sales payroll.)
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Vargas, Inc., produces industrial machinery. Vargas has a machining department and a group of direct laborers called machinists. Each machinist is paid 25,000 and can machine up to 500 units per year. Vargas also hires supervisors to develop machine specification plans and to oversee production within the machining department. Given the planning and supervisory work, a supervisor can oversee three machinists, at most. Vargass accounting and production history reveal the following relationships between units produced and the costs of direct labor and supervision (measured on an annual basis): Required: 1. Prepare two graphs: one that illustrates the relationship between direct labor cost and units produced, and one that illustrates the relationship between the cost of supervision and units produced. Let cost be the vertical axis and units produced the horizontal axis. 2. How would you classify each cost? Why? 3. Suppose that the normal range of activity is between 2,400 and 2,450 units and that the exact number of machinists is currently hired to support this level of activity. Further suppose that production for the next year is expected to increase by an additional 400 units. How much will the cost of direct labor increase (and how will this increase be realized)? Cost of supervision?
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