# Overhead Applied to Jobs, Departmental Overhead Rates Xania Inc. uses a normal job-order costing system. Currently, a plantwide overhead rate based on machine hours is used. Xania’s plant manager has heard that departmental overhead rates can offer significantly better cost assignments than a plantwide rate can offer. Xania has the following data for its two departments for the coming year: Required: 1. Compute a predetermined overhead rate for the plant as a whole based on machine hours. 2. Compute predetermined overhead rates for each department using machine hours. ( Note: Carry your calculations out to three decimal places.) 3. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Job 73 used 20 machine hours from Department A and 50 machine hours from Department B. Job 74 used 50 machine hours from Department A and 20 machine hours from Department B. Compute the overhead cost assigned to each job using the plantwide rate computed in Requirement 1. Repeat the computation using the departmental rates found in Requirement 2. Which of the two approaches gives the fairer assignment? Why? ( Note: Round cost to the nearest cent.) 4. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Repeat Requirement 3, assuming the expected overhead cost for Department B is $60,000 (not$33,000). For this company, would you recommend departmental rates over a plantwide rate? ( Note: Round overhead rates to the nearest cent.)

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### Managerial Accounting: The Corners...

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Maryanne M. Mowen + 2 others
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781337115773
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### Managerial Accounting: The Corners...

7th Edition
Maryanne M. Mowen + 2 others
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781337115773

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