JOB-ORDER COSTING FOR SERVICE COMPANIES INSTRUCTIONS JUMP to PART (b) to start with the JOB COST record for Mr Applebee (the green highlighted is the DIRECT COSTS and LABOUR. Overhead costs are allocated for 2 functions - Research and for Litigation. Compute total overhead costs for each function (see highlighted in yellow). To determine predetermined rate (research is allocated based on total research hours) and (litigation is allocated based on total lawyer hours in the litigation department). Walter, Knoble and Notter is a small law firm that employs 10 partners and 10 support people. The firm employs a job-order costing system to accumulate costs chargeable to each dient, 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 dients. At the beginning of the current year, the firm's management made the following estimates for the year: Research & Documents Department Litigation Department Research hours Direct lawyer hours 20,000 9,000 20,000 Materials and supplies $18,000 $5,000 Direct lawyer costs $432,000 $800,000 Salaries of support people $320,000 $150,000 TUtilities $45,000 $45,000 Research materials, books, journals, etc. $155,000 Computers, Internet, Telephone, etc. $85,000 $50,000 Office equipment depreciation $55,000 $65,000 Other overhead costs $55,000 $12,000 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 hours. The costs charged to each dient are made up of three elements (headings): 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. REQUIRED: (a) Use the Excel sheet used in dass for week 4. (b) Case 618-3 (for Mr Applebee) was initiated on February 8 and completed on June 29. Complete a job-order cost record for Mr Applebee based on the following information: Research done by Research and Documents department totalled 20 hours. Lawyers spent 10 hours doing research and compiling documents and 41 hours were spent in litigation. Materials and supplies used in Research and Documents totalled $55 and in litigation $35. The rate for a Litigation Lawyers is: Please enter your answer to the nearest dollar, e.g. $4,032.33 should be entered as 4032.