ateness of the company's cost drivers
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Transcribed Image Text:PR 3-48 (Algo) Part 7 Comment on the appropriateness of the company's cost drivers...
7. Comment on the appropriateness of the company's cost drivers (e, the use of machine hours in Machining and direct-labor cost in
Assembly)
Comment on the appropriateness of the company's cost drivers

Transcribed Image Text:Garcia, Incorporated, uses a job-order costing system for its products, which pass from the Machining Department, to the
Assembly Department, to finished-goods inventory. The Machining Department is heavily automated, in contrast, the
Assembly Department performs a number of manual-assembly activities. The company applies manufacturing overhead
using machine hours in the Machining Department and direct-labor cost in the Assembly Department. The following
information relates to the year just ended:
Items
Budgeted manufacturing overhead
Actual manufacturing overhead
Machining
Department
Budgeted direct-labor cost (based on practical capacity)
Actual direct-labor cost
Budgeted machine hours (based on practical capacity)
Actual machine hours
The data that follow pertain to job number 775, the only job in production at year-end.
Assembly
Department
Items
Direct material
Direct labor
Machine hours:
Selling and administrative expense amounted to $2,500,000.
$ 24,500
$ 27,900
360
Machining
Department
$ 6,800
$ 58,600
150
$ 4,000,000
4,270,000
1,500,000
1,450,000
400,000
425,000
Assembly
Department
$3,080,000
3,050,000
5,600,000
5,780,000
100,000
110,000
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