Question

2.  How much manufacturing overhead was applied to Job P and how much was applied to Job Q?

Required information (The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments --Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March-Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March): Estimated total machine-hours used Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour Molding Fabrication Total 2,500 1,500 4,000 $10,000 $15,000 $25,000 $ 1.40 $ 2.20 Job P $13,000 $21,000 Job Q $8,000 $7,500 Direct materials Direct labor cost Actual machine-hours used: Molding Fabrication Total 1,700 600 2,300 800 900 1,700 Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. Required: For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.

Answer 1

Solution 2:

Total estimated Overhead = (2500*1.40) + (1500*2.20) + $25000 = $31,800

Predetermined Overhead rate = $31800/ 4000 = $7.95 per Machine hour

Overhead assigned to Job P = 2300* $7.95 = $18,285

Overhead assigned to Job Q = 1700* $7.95 = $13,515