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Bluebird Design, Inc. is a Web site design and consulting firm. The firm uses a job order costing system in which each client is a different job. Bluebird Design assigns direct labor, licensing costs, and travel costs directly to each job. It allocates indirect
At the beginning of 2018, managing partner Sally Simone prepared the following budget estimates:
In November 2018, Bluebird Design served several clients. Records for two clients appear here:
Requirements
- 1. Compute Bluebird Design’s direct labor rate and its predetermined overhead allocation rate for 2018.
- 2. Compute the total cost of each job.
- 3. If Simone wants to earn profits equal to 50% of service revenue, what fee should she charge each of these two clients?
- 4. Why does Bluebird Design assign costs to jobs?
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