Service industry, job costing, two direct- and two indirect-cost categories, law firm. Keating has just completed a review of its job-costing system. This review included a detailed analysis of how past jobs used the firm’s resources and interviews with personnel about what factors drive the level of indirect costs. Management concluded that a system with two direct-cost categories (professional partner labor and professional associate labor) and two indirect-cost categories (general support and secretarial support) would yield more-accurate job costs. Budgeted information for 2008 related to the two direct-cost categories is as follows:
Budgeted information for 2008 relating to the two indirect-cost categories is
1. Compute the 2008 budgeted direct-cost rates for (a) professional partners and (b) professional associates.2. Compute the 2008 budgeted indirect-cost rates for (a) general support and (b) secretarial support.3. Compute the budgeted costs for the Richardson and Punch jobs, given the following information:
4. Comment on the results in requirement 3. Why are the job costs different from those computed in Problem4-32?