White Company has two departments, Cutting and Finishing. The company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. The Cutting Department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the Finishing Department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates:     Department   Cutting Finishing Direct labor-hours   7,100   62,000 Machine-hours   52,100   2,700 Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 370,000 $ 560,000 Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 4.00   — Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour   — $ 2.75     Required: 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)           Department   Cutting  Finishing Predetermined overhead rate  ____ per MH   _____ per DLH     2. The job cost sheet for Job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following:   Department   Cutting Finishing Direct labor-hours     4       11   Machine-hours     88       6   Direct materials   $ 750     $ 360   Direct labor cost   $ 88     $ 242     Using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 203. 3. Would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates? Yes or No?

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White Company has two departments, Cutting and Finishing. The company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. The Cutting Department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the Finishing Department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates:

 

  Department
  Cutting Finishing
Direct labor-hours   7,100   62,000
Machine-hours   52,100   2,700
Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 370,000 $ 560,000
Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 4.00  
Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour   $ 2.75
 

 

Required:

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department.

Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

 
 
 
 
  Department
  Cutting  Finishing
Predetermined overhead rate  ____ per MH   _____ per DLH    

2. The job cost sheet for Job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following:

  Department
  Cutting Finishing
Direct labor-hours     4       11  
Machine-hours     88       6  
Direct materials   $ 750     $ 360  
Direct labor cost   $ 88     $ 242  
 

Using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 203.

3. Would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

Yes or No?

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