White Company has two departments, Cutting and Finishing. The company uses job-order costing and com overhead rate in each department. The Cutting Department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the Finishing Department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: Direct labor-hours Machine-hours Direct materials Department Cutting 6 80 $ 500 Department Direct labor-hours Machine-hours Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour Required: 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. The job cost sheet for Job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: Finishing 20 4 $ 310 Cutting 6,000 48,000 $ 264,000 $ 2.00 0 Finishing 30,000 5,000 $366,000 0 $ 4.00

White Company has two departments, Cutting and Finishing. The company uses job-order costing and com overhead rate in each department. The Cutting Department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the Finishing Department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: Direct labor-hours Machine-hours Direct materials Department Cutting 6 80 $ 500 Department Direct labor-hours Machine-hours Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour Required: 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. The job cost sheet for Job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: Finishing 20 4 $ 310 Cutting 6,000 48,000 $ 264,000 $ 2.00 0 Finishing 30,000 5,000 $366,000 0 $ 4.00

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Chapter4: Accounting For Factory Overhead

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