Job Time Tickets
Direct labor must be assigned to each particular job, This is done using a source document known as a time ticket (see Exhibit 5.7) When an employee works on a particular job, she fills out a time ticket that identifies her name, wage rate, hours worked, and job number. These time tickets are collected daily and transferred to the Cost Accounting Department, where the information is used to post the cost of direct labor to individual jobs. Again, in an automated system, posting involved entering the data onto the computer.
Time tickets are used only for direct laborers. Since indirect labor is common to all jobs, these cost belong to overhead and are allocated using the predetermined overhead rate.