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1) Job costing; actual, normal, and variation of normal costing. Chirac & Partners is a Quebec based public accounting partnership specialising in audit services. Its

1) Job costing; actual, normal, and variation of normal costing.
Chirac & Partners is a Quebec based public accounting partnership specialising in audit services. Its job-costing system has a single direct cost category (professional labor) and a single indirect cost pool (audit support, which contain all the costs in the Audit Support Department). Audit support costs are allocated to individual jobs using actual professional labor-hours, Chirac & Partners employee ten professional who are involved in their auditing services.


Chirac & Partners

Budget for 2019

 

 

Professional labour compensation

$960,000 

 

Audit support department costs

720,000

 

Professional labour hours billed to clients

      16,000 

hours

Actual results for 2019

 

 

Audit support department costs

$744,000 

 

Professional labour-hours billed to clients

      15,500 

hours

Actual professional labour cost rate

$58 

per hour

 

 

 




Required:
Identify the direct cost rate per professional labor hour and the indirect cost rate per professional labor hour for 2019 under
(a) Actual Costing
(b) Normal Costing

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