Overhead Applied to Jobs, Departmental Overhead Rates Xania Inc. uses a normal job-order costing system. Currently, a plantwide overhead rate based on machine hours is used. Xania's plant manager has heard that departmental overhead rates can offer significantly better cost assignments than a pla following data for its two departments for the coming year: Overhead costs (expected) Normal activity (machine hours) Required: 1. Compute a predetermined overhead rate for the plant as a whole based on machine hours. Round your answer to two decimal places. 5.75 per machine hour ✔ 2. Compute predetermined overhead rates for each department using machine hours. (Note: Round to two decimal places, if necessary.) Department A 8.28✔per machine hour Department B per machine hour Plantwide 2.89 3. Conceptual Connection: Job 73 used 20 machine hours from Department A and 50 machine hours from Department B. Job 74 used 50 machine hours from Department A and 20 machine hours from Department B. Compute the overhead cost a plantwide rate computed in Requirement 1. Repeat the computation using the departmental rates found in Requirement 2. Round final answers to the nearest cent, if necessary. Job 74 Departmental Department A $120,000 14,500 Job 73 $ 402.5 X $ 310.10 X Department B $37,000 12,800 $ 402.5 X $ 471.80 X Which of the two approaches gives the fairer assignment? Departmental rates ✓ 4. Conceptual Connection: Repeat Requirement 3, assuming the expected overhead cost for Department B is $62,000 (not $37,000). Round overhead rates to the nearest cent.
Overhead Applied to Jobs, Departmental Overhead Rates Xania Inc. uses a normal job-order costing system. Currently, a plantwide overhead rate based on machine hours is used. Xania's plant manager has heard that departmental overhead rates can offer significantly better cost assignments than a pla following data for its two departments for the coming year: Overhead costs (expected) Normal activity (machine hours) Required: 1. Compute a predetermined overhead rate for the plant as a whole based on machine hours. Round your answer to two decimal places. 5.75 per machine hour ✔ 2. Compute predetermined overhead rates for each department using machine hours. (Note: Round to two decimal places, if necessary.) Department A 8.28✔per machine hour Department B per machine hour Plantwide 2.89 3. Conceptual Connection: Job 73 used 20 machine hours from Department A and 50 machine hours from Department B. Job 74 used 50 machine hours from Department A and 20 machine hours from Department B. Compute the overhead cost a plantwide rate computed in Requirement 1. Repeat the computation using the departmental rates found in Requirement 2. Round final answers to the nearest cent, if necessary. Job 74 Departmental Department A $120,000 14,500 Job 73 $ 402.5 X $ 310.10 X Department B $37,000 12,800 $ 402.5 X $ 471.80 X Which of the two approaches gives the fairer assignment? Departmental rates ✓ 4. Conceptual Connection: Repeat Requirement 3, assuming the expected overhead cost for Department B is $62,000 (not $37,000). Round overhead rates to the nearest cent.
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Xania Inc. uses a normal job-order costing system. Currently, a plantwide overhead rate based on machine hours is used. Xania's plant manager has heard that departmental overhead rates can offer significantly better cost assignments than a plantwide rate can offer. Xania has the
following data for its two departments for the coming year:
Overhead costs (expected)
Normal activity (machine hours)
Required:
Department A
Department B
1. Compute a predetermined overhead rate for the plant as a whole based on machine hours. Round your answer to two decimal places.
5.75 ✔per machine hour
Plantwide
2. Compute predetermined overhead rates for each department using machine hours. (Note: Round to two decimal places, if necessary.)
8.28 ✔ per machine hour
2.89✔ per machine hour
Departmental
$
3. Conceptual Connection: Job 73 used 20 machine hours from Department A and 50 machine hours from Department B. Job 74 used 50 machine hours from Department A and 20 machine hours from Department B. Compute the overhead cost assigned to each job using the
plantwide rate computed in Requirement 1. Repeat the computation using the departmental rates found in Requirement 2. Round final answers to the nearest cent, if necessary.
Plantwide
Job 73
Departmental
$
402.5 X
$
310.10 X
Department A
$120,000
Job 73
$
466.67 X
14,500
Which of the two approaches gives the fairer assignment?
Departmental rates - ✓
$
968.75 X
Job 74
4. Conceptual Connection: Repeat Requirement 3, assuming the expected overhead cost for Department B is $62,000 (not $37,000). Round overhead rates to the nearest cent.
$
402.5 X
$
471.80 X
Department B
$37,000
12,800
Job 74
$
466.67 X
$
2,421.88 X
For this company, would you recommend departmental rates over a plantwide rate?
Yes
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