Question

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):

	Molding			Fabrication			Total
Estimated total machine-hours used		2,500			1,500			4,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead	$	14,250		$	17,550		$	31,800
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$	3.10		$	3.90

	Job P			Job Q
Direct materials	$	30,000		$	16,500
Direct labor cost	$	34,600		$	14,300
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding		3,400			2,500
Fabrication		2,300			2,600
Total		5,700			5,100

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.

12. If Job P included 20 units, what was its unit product cost? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Answer 1

Methods to allocate overhead

• Multiple overhead rate(Activity based costing)
• Single overhead rate

In multiple overhead rate,overhead are allocated on the basis of multiple rates according to consumption of activity resources.

In single overhead rate .Overhead are allocated on the basis of single rate.It may be direct labour hour or machine hours.