Question

Line 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 (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 $8,000 $7,500 Direct materials Direct labor cost Actual machine-hours used Molding Pabrication 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. 1. What was the company's plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Predetermined overhead rate per MH

Answer 1

Answer

Compute the fixed overhead rate of the company:

Fixed overhead rate

Fixed Manufacturing Overheads /Total Machine Hours

25000 / 4000

$6.25

Predetermined overhead rate=Fixed overhead rate+Variable overhead rate

Predetermined overhead rate = 6.25 + 1.4 +2.2

Predetermined overhead rate =$ 9.85 per machine hours