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Revenues | $50,000,000 | |
Total costs: | ||
Direct costs | ||
Professional Labor | $ 20,000,000 | |
Indirect costs | ||
Client support | 25,000,000 | 45,000,000 |
Operating income | $ 5,000,000 |
Frontier has a single direct-cost category (professional labor) and a single indirect-cost pool (client support). Indirect costs are allocated to jobs on the basis of professional labor costs.
- 1. Prepare an overview diagram of the job-costing system. Calculate the 2017 budgeted indirect-cost rate for Frontier Partners.
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- 2. The markup rate for pricing jobs is intended to produce operating income equal to 10% of revenues. Calculate the markup rate as a percentage of professional labor costs.
- 3. Frontier is bidding on a consulting job for Sentinel Communications, a wireless communications company. The budgeted breakdown of professional labor on the job is as follows:
Professional Labor Category | Budgeted Rate per Hour | Budgeted Hours |
Director | $200 | 9 |
Partner | 100 | 24 |
Associate | 50 | 100 |
Assistant | 30 | 220 |
Calculate the budgeted cost of the Sentinel Communications job. How much will Frontier bid for the job if it is to earn its target operating income of 10% of revenues?
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