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To calculate: the company’s current plant-wide
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To calculate: refined departmental overhead rates for the company.
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To identify: which job (Job 500 or Job 501) uses more of company’s resources.
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To calculate: the total amount of overhead allocated to each job if the company uses plant-wide overhead rate.
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To calculate: the total amount of overhead allocated to each job is the company uses departmental overhead rates.
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To identify: whether or not both allocation systems accurately reflect the resources that each job used.
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To calculate: total
8.
To calculate: profit earned on each job using plant-wide overhead rate & actual profit earned on each job using departmental overhead rates.
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To comment: on the results obtained in requirement 7 & requirement 8.
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