A1 Consulting Services (A1CS) provides various types of consulting services throughout Fiji. It uses job costing system to accumulate the cost of client projects.
Traceable costs are charged directly to individual clients.
Other costs incurred by A1CS, but not identifiable with specific clients, are charged to jobs by
using a predetermined overhead rate.
Clients are billed for directly chargeable costs, overhead and a markup for the profit margin.
The following costs have been anticipated for the coming year:
Cost Percentage of cost directly
traceable to clients
Professional staff salaries $3 000 000 85%
Administrative support staff 800 000 60%
Travel 400 000 80%
Photocopying 90 000 90%
Other operating costs 200 000 75%
Total $4 490 000FIJI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY College of Business, Hospitality and Tourism Studies
ACC602Sem: Strategic Management Accounting [Semester 1 2021]
A1CS’s management wishes to make a profit of $1 250 000 for the firm and plans to add
percentage markup on total cost to achieve that figure.
On 23 May, A1CS completed work on a project for Mango Manufacturing. The following costs
were incurred:
Cost
Professional staff salaries $55 000
Administrative support staff 5 000
Travel 6 000
Photocopying 1 200
Other operating costs 2 800
Note: If rounding off is required, round off your figures to 2 d. p.
Required:
1. Determine A1CS’s total traceable costs for the coming year and the firm’s total
anticipated overhead.