Littleton Promotional Services Uses a Job Order System for Costing

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Multiple Choice

Littleton Promotional Services uses a job order system for costing and billing promotional services for dance and ballet performances.Littleton has four public relations specialists and office staff.At the beginning of 2019,Littleton estimated the total cost of salaries and benefits for the public relations specialists at $680,000 and a total of 8000 billable hours for the year.The office and administrative costs were estimated at $408,000.The allocation base for office and administrative costs is billable hours.A new client is contracting with Littleton to promote a ballet tour in the United States.Littleton estimates that the job will require 38 billable hours of specialist time.If Littleton wishes to have a 20% mark up on cost on the job,what price should Littleton quote to the client?

• A) $3230
• B) $1938
• C) $6202
• D) $1034

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Definitions:

Variable Overhead

Costs that vary with the level of production output, such as materials, utilities, and commissions, contrary to fixed overheads.

Total Direct Materials Cost Variance

The difference between the budgeted cost of direct materials and the actual cost incurred for the materials.

Direct Materials

Raw materials that are directly used in the manufacturing of a product and can be easily traced to it.

Controllable Variance

The difference between expected and actual costs that managers have the power to influence directly.