Assume the St. Cloud plant uses three separate  overhead rates to assign overhead costs to jobs.   b-1. Find the plant wide overhead rate by using expected machine hours. b-2. Find the department overhead rate using expected machine hours for Department A and Department B. b-3. Calculate the projected manufacturing costs per unit for job 110 using the three separate rates computed in b-1 and b-2.

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The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Cloud, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Cloud plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plant-wide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $230,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted and actual data from the St. Cloud plant for the past year are as follows.

 

  Department A   Department B
Budgeted department overhead              
(excludes plantwide overhead) $ 108,000     $ 329,000  
Actual department overhead   120,000       344,000  
Expected total activity:              
Direct labor hours   44,000       10,000  
Machine-hours   18,000       47,000  
Actual activity:              
Direct labor hours   45,500       9,500  
Machine-hours   18,500       49,000  
 

 

For the coming year, the accountants at the St. Cloud plant are in the process of helping the sales force create bids for several jobs. Projected data pertaining only to job no. 110 are as follows.

 

 
Direct materials $ 18,500  
Direct labor cost:      
Department A (2,200 hr)   33,000  
Department B (1,200 hr)   6,800  
Machine-hours projected:      
Department A   110  
Department B   1,200  
Units produced   14,000  
 

 

Assume the St. Cloud plant uses three separate  overhead rates to assign overhead costs to jobs.

 

b-1. Find the plant wide overhead rate by using expected machine hours.

b-2. Find the department overhead rate using expected machine hours for Department A and Department B.

b-3. Calculate the projected manufacturing costs per unit for job 110 using the three separate rates computed in b-1 and b-2.

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