Chapter 04 – Job Costing
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Tutorial and Illustration:
Creating and Using Pivot Tables—the following steps can be used to
create a pivot table that in turn, can be used to evaluate various data sets
with ease. By exploring the pivot tables within Excel you can use this
feature to perform many different summations and calculations. This
tutorial will only show you a simple version of a pivot table. The data for
the tutorial is taken from the self-study problem at the end of the chapter,
the Watkins Machinery Company broken down into further information for
hypothetical separate dates and amounts.
1. Enter the data for the problem into a spreadsheet, as follows (the
first two columns are the same, the reason for which will be clear
in the solution to follow):
Purchased Product Purchased
Product
Date Amount Applied to:
Indirect Materials Indirect Materials 02/26/16 $ 3,000 Indirect
Indirect Materials Indirect Materials 03/01/16 1,250 Indirect
Material Y Material Y 03/03/16 800 Job 101
Material Y Material Y 03/04/16 1,600 Job 102
Material X Material X 03/06/16 1,200 Job 101
Material X Material X 03/08/16 1,600 Job 102
Indirect Materials Indirect Materials 03/10/16 1,250 Indirect
Material X Material X 03/11/16 800 Job 101
Material X Material X 03/11/16 2,000 Job 101
Material X Material X 03/12/16 1,000 Unapplied
Material X Material X 03/20/16 1,000 Job 101
Material Y Material Y 03/20/16 2,000 Unapplied
Material Y Material Y 03/24/16 900 Job 102
Material X Material X 03/24/16 1,400 Job 102
Material Y Material Y 03/25/16 200 Job 101
Material Y Material Y 03/26/16 1,000 Unapplied
Indirect Materials Indirect Materials 03/26/16 1,250 Indirect
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