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Applying Job Order Costing in a Service Setting
Marsha Design is an interior design and consulting firm. The uses a
Marsha Design races direct labor and travel costs to each job (client). It assigns indirect costs to clients at a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours.
At the beginning of the year, the managing partner, Marsha Cain, prepared the following budget:
Later that same year, in March, Marsha several Records two clients appear below:
1. Compute Marsha Design's predetermined overhead rate current year.
2. Compute the total cost of serving the listed.
3. Assume that Marsha charges clients $250 per hour for interior design services. How much gross profit would she earn on each of the clients above, ignoring any difference between actual and overhead?
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