A public accounting firm employs 10 full-time professionals who provide services to clients. All professional labour...

A public accounting firm employs 10 full-time professionals who provide services to clients. All professional labour compensation is traced directly to clients on a per professional labour-hour basis. Any other costs are included in a single indirect-cost pool (same as overhead) and allocated to individual clients according to billable professional labour-hours.

Operating costs and data for the year included the following:

Estimated Actual

Overhead Costs $1,000,000 $1,200,000

Billable professional

labor hours 40,000 50,000

Total Professional

Compensation 750,000 750,000

1. Calculate the amount of overhead cost underapplied or overapplied.

2. Prepare a summary journal entry to close any underapplied or overapplied overhead cost to a Cost of Services Provided account (similar to Cost of Goods Sold account for a manufacturing company).

3. Explain why overhead was either underapplied or overapplied.

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