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ISBN: 9781266376771

Author: BREWER

Publisher: MCG

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Chapter 2, Problem 9F15

Sweeten Company bad no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March—Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):
Chapter 2, Problem 9F15, Sweeten Company bad no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The , example 1

Chapter 2, Problem 9F15, Sweeten Company bad no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The , example 2

Sweeten Company bad no under applied or over applied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.
Required:
For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plant wide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base.
For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.

9. That were the company’s predetermined overhead rates in the Molding Department and the Fabrication Department?

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