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Clock card  A source document that is used to record the number of hours an employee works and to determine the total labour cost for each pay period.
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Job  The production of a unique product or service.
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Job cost sheet  A separate record maintained for each job.
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Job lot  Producing more than one unit of a unique product.
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Job order cost accounting system  A cost accounting system that is designed to determine the cost of producing each job or job lot.
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Job order manufacturing  The production of special order products, also called customized production.
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Materials ledger cards  Perpetual records that are updated each time units are purchased and each time units are issued for use in production.
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Materials requisition  A source document that production managers use to request materials for manufacturing and that is used to assign materials costs to specific jobs or to overhead.
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Overapplied overhead  The amount by which the overhead applied to jobs during a period with the predetermined overhead application rate exceeds the overhead incurred during the period.
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Periodic inventory system  Measures costs of raw materials, goods in process, and finished goods inventories from physical counts of quantities on hand at the end of each period.
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Perpetual inventory system  Continuously updates records for costs of raw materials, goods in process, and finished goods inventories.
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Predetermined overhead application rate  The rate established prior to the beginning of a period that relates estimated overhead to another variable such as estimated direct labour, and that is used to assign overhead cost to jobs.
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Time ticket  A source document used to report how much time was spent working on a job or on overhead activities and that is used to determine the amount of direct labour to charge to the job or the amount of indirect labour to charge to overhead.
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Underapplied overhead  The amount by which overhead incurred during a period exceeds the overhead applied to jobs with the predetermined overhead application rate.
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