Melting Molding

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Indirect Cost Allocation: Direct Method

Sprint Manufacturing Company has two production departments, Melting and Molding. Direct general plant management and plant security costs benefit both production departments. Sprint allocates general plant management costs on the basis of the number of production employees and plant security costs on the basis of space occupied by the production departments. In November, the following overhead costs were recorded:

Melting Department overhead

$110,000

Molding Department overhead

400,000

General plant management

100,000

Plant security

50,000

Other pertinent data follow:

 

Melting

Molding

Number of employees

35

40

Space occupied (square feet)

10,000

20,000

Machine hours

10,000

2,000

Direct labor hours

4,000

20,000

 

a. Prepare a schedule allocating general plant management costs and plant security costs to the Meltingand Molding Departments.

 

Department

Total

Melting

Molding

General Plant Management

 

 

 

Plant security

 

 

 

 

b. 

  • Determine the total departmental overhead costs for the Melting and Molding Departments.Use rounded answers to compute total departmental overhead costs for each department.

Melting $

0

Molding $

0

 

c. 

  • Assuming the Melting Department uses machine hours and the Molding Department uses direct laborhours to apply overhead to production, calculate the overhead rate for each production department. Use rounded answers to compute and then round final answers to two decimal places.

Melting $

0

Molding $

0

 

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