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Multiple Departments; Applying Overhead
WoodGrain Technology makes home office furniture from fine hardwoods. The company uses a job-order costing system and predetermined overhead rates to apply manufacturing overhead cost
to jobs. The predetermined overhead rate in the Preparation Department is based on machine- hours, and the rate in the Fabrication Department is based on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company’s management made the following estimates for the year:
|
Machine-hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
80,000 |
21,000 |
|
Direct labor-hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
35,000 |
50,000 |
|
Direct materials cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$190,000 |
$400,000 |
|
Direct labor cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$280,000 |
$530,000 |
|
Fixed manufacturing overhead cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$256,000 |
$520,000 |
|
Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour . . . . . . . . . . |
$2.00 |
— |
|
Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour . . . . . . . . |
— |
$4.00 |
Job 127 was started on April 1 and completed on May 12. The company’s cost records show the following information concerning the job:
|
Machine-hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
350 |
70 |
|
Direct labor-hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
80 |
130 |
|
Direct materials cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$940 |
$1,200 |
|
Direct labor cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$710 |
$980 |
Required:
1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used during the year in the Preparation Depart- ment. Compute the rate used in the Fabrication Department.
2. Compute the total overhead cost applied to Job 127.
3. What would be the total cost recorded for Job 127? If the job contained 25 units, what would be the unit product cost?
4. At the end of the year, the records of WoodGrain Technology revealed the following actual
cost and operating data for all jobs worked on during the year:
|
|
Preparation |
Fabrication |
|
Machine-hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
73,000 |
24,000 |
|
Direct labor-hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
30,000 |
54,000 |
|
Direct materials cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$165,000 |
$420,000 |
|
Manufacturing overhead cost . . . . . . . |
$390,000 |
$740,000 |
What was the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead in each department at the end of the year?
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