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[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Woltz Page Company (WPC) is a manufacturer that uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct-labor hours. Its average direct labor wage rate is $24 per hour. The company has asked you to conduct a job profitability study beginning with a thorough critique of its existing cost system. To keep the scope of your project manageable, you have chosen to base your critique on a subset of 10 jobs from the many jobs completed by the company during the year. Download the Excel file, which you will use to create the Tableau visualizations that will accompany your critique. Upload the Excel file into Tableau by doing the following:

Open the Tableau Desktop application.

On the left-hand side, under the Connect header and the To a file sub-header, click on Microsoft Excel.

Choose the Excel file and click Open.

Since the only worksheet in the Excel File is Woltz Page Co it will default as a selection with no further import steps needed

Create a bar chart in Tableau that shows the total Direct Material Costs (DM Costs) for each of the ten jobs:

Double click on Sheet 1 at the bottom of your workbook and rename it Direct Material Costs by Job

On the left-hand side under Dimensions (sometimes labeled as Tables), click on Job and drag it to the Columns area above the blank sheet.

On the left-hand side under Measures, click on DM Cost and drag it to the Rows area.

The calculation will default to Sum, which is what we want in this instance.

This will create a vertical bar chart which is what we want in this instance.

Label each job with its respective direct materials cost by clicking on DM Cost under Measures and dragging and dropping it onto the Label Marks card.

If the labels appear horizontal, then proceed to the next step. If they do not appear horizontal, then click on the Label Marks card () and under Label Appearance, click on the drop down for Alignment and choose () under direction.

Sort the direct materials cost from highest to lowest by clicking on the descending sort button in the middle of the menu bar at the top of the screen ()

Your visualization should appear as follows:

Required: 1a. Of the 10 jobs: Which one had the highest direct materials cost? What is the total amount? 1b. Of the 10 jobs: Which one had the lowest direct materials cost? What is the total amount?

Karrion Company
Traditional Format Income Statement
Sales		$ 49,000,000
Cost of goods sold		$ 33,549,538
Gross margin		$ 15,450,462
Selling and administrative expenses:
Selling	$ 10,082,188
Administrative	$ 1,163,991	$ 11,246,179
Net operating income		$ 4,204,283
Karrion Company
Contribution Format Income Statement
Sales		$ 49,000,000
Variable expenses:
Cost of goods sold	$ 20,660,218
Variable selling	$ 2,863,300
Variable administrative	$ 10,399	$ 23,533,917
Contribution margin		$ 25,466,083
Fixed expenses:
Fixed manufacturnig overhead	$ 12,889,320
Fixed selling	$ 7,218,888
Fixed administrative	$ 1,153,592	$ 21,261,800
Net operating income		$ 4,204,283
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