Reference no: EM131241577

ASSIGNMENT

Winder, Knotter, and Nale is a small law firm that has 10 partners and 10 support people. The firm employs a job-order costing system to accumulate costs chargeable to each client, and it is organized into two departments-the Research and Documents Department and the Litigation Department. The firm uses predetermined overhead rates to charge the costs of these departments to its clients. At the beginning of the current year, the firm's management made the following estimates for the year:

Department
	Research and Documents			Litigation
Research-hours		21,200			-
Direct lawyer-hours		9,600			17,200
Materials and supplies	$	20,400		$	6,200
Direct lawyer cost	$	451,200		$	860,000
Departmental overhead cost	$	720,800		$	258,000

The predetermined overhead rate in the Research and Documents Department is based on research-hours, and the rate in the Litigation Department is based on direct lawyer cost.

The costs charged to each client are made up of three elements: materials and supplies used, direct lawyer costs incurred, and an applied amount of overhead from each department in which work is performed on the case.

Case 618-3 was initiated on February 10 and completed on June 30. During this period, the following costs and time were recorded on the case:

Department
	Research and Documents			Litigation
Research-hours		30			-
Direct lawyer-hours		21			54
Materials and supplies	$	74		$	42
Direct lawyer cost	$	945		$	2,700

Required:

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used during the year in the Research and Documents Department. Compute the rate used in the Litigation Department.

Predetermined Over-Rate
Research and Document Department ______ per hour
Litigation department _______ %
Including the explanation

2. Compute the total overhead cost applied to Case 618-3.

Total Overhead Cost: _______________
Including the explanation

3. What is the total cost charged to Case 618-3? Show computations by department and in total for the case.

Department

Research & Documents Litigation Total
Materials &
Supplies _________________ _________ _______
Direct attorney
Cost _________________ __________ ________
Overhead cost
Applied _________________ ___________ ________
Total cost _________________ ___________ _________
Including Explanation

4. At the end of the year, the firm's records revealed the following actual cost and operating data for all cases handled during the year:

Department
	Research and Documents			Litigation
Research-hours		24,100			-
Direct lawyer-hours		8,720			16,080
Materials and supplies	$	21,300		$	7,100
Direct lawyer cost	$	436,000		$	777,200
Departmental overhead cost	$	783,250		$	240,900

Determine the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead cost in each department for the year.

Research & Documents Department ________________ ___________________
Litigation Department ________________ ___________________
Including Explanation