Exam 3: Systems Design: Job-Order Costing

Whether a company uses process costing or job-order costing depends on its industry. A number of companies in different industries are listed below: Brick manufacturer Contract printer that produces posters, books, and pamphlets to order Natural gas production company Dairy farm Coal mining company Specialty coffee roaster (roasts small batches of specialty coffee beans) Required: For each company, indicate whether the company is most likely to use job-order costing or process costing.

Dasilva Company had only one job in process on May 1. The job had been charged with $1,400 of direct materials, $6,192 of direct labor, and $5,712 of manufacturing overhead cost. The company assigns overhead cost to jobs using the predetermined overhead rate of $11.90 per direct labor-hour. During May, the following activity was recorded: Work in process inventory on May 30 contains $4,773 of direct labor cost. Raw materials consist solely of items that are classified as direct materials. -The cost of goods manufactured for May was:

The three cost categories appearing on a job cost sheet are: selling expense, manufacturing expense, and administrative expense.