Calculating Departmental Overhead Rates Using Post-Allocation Costs
Valron Company has two support departments, Human Resources and General Factory, and two producing departments, Fabricating and Assembly.
Support Departments |
Producing Departments | |||
Human Resources |
General Factory |
Fabricating | Assembly | |
Direct costs | $160,000 | $340,000 | $114,600 | $93,000 |
Normal activity: | ||||
Number of employees | — | 60 | 80 | 170 |
Square footage | 1,000 | — | 5,700 | 13,300 |
The costs of the Human Resources Department are allocated on the basis of number of employees, and the costs of General Factory are allocated on the basis of square footage. Valron Company uses the direct method of support department cost allocation. Solve for the allocated costs to Fabricating and Assembly using the direct method of support department cost allocation. The Fabricating Department overhead rate is based on normal activity of 82,000 machine hours. The Assembly Department overhead rate is based on normal activity of 160,000 direct labor hours.
Job 316 required six machine hours in Fabricating and four direct labor hours in Assembly. Total direct materials cost $120, and total direct labor cost was $80.
Required:
1. Calculate the overhead rate for Fabricating based on machine hours and the overhead rate for Assembly based on direct labor hours. If required, round your answers to the nearest cent. Use the rounded values for subsequent calculations.
Overhead Rate | |
Fabricating department | $ per mach. hr. |
Assembly department | $ per DLH |
2. Using the overhead rates calculated in
Requirement 1, calculate the cost of Job 316. If required, round
your answer to the nearest cent.
$
3. What if Job 316 had required one
machine hour in Fabricating and four direct labor hours in
Assembly? Direct labor and direct materials costs remained the
same. Calculate the new cost of Job 316. If required, round your
answer to the nearest cent.
$
Support Departments | Producing Departments | |||
Human Resources | General Factory | Fabricating | Assembly | |
Direct costs | $160000 | $340000 | $114600 | $93000 |
Allocation: | ||||
Human Resources | (160000) | - | 51200 | 108800 |
General Factory | - | (340000) | 102000 | 238000 |
Total after allocation | $0 | $0 | $267800 | $439800 |
Allocation of Human Resources Departments
Total number of employees of Producing departments= 80+170= 250
Fabricating= $160000*80/250= $51200
Assembly= $160000*170/250= $108800
Allocation of General Factory Departments
Total square footage of Producing departments= 5700+13300= 19000
Fabricating= $340000*5700/19000= $102000
Assembly= $340000*13300/19000= $238000
1) Fabricating department= Total cost allocated/Total machine hours
= $267800/82000= $3.27 per MH
Assembly department= Total cost allocated/Total labor hours
= $439800/160000= $2.75 per DLH
2) Overhead= (6*$3.27+4*$2.75)= $30.62
Cost of Job 316= Direct materials+Direct labor+Overhead
= $120+80+30.62= $230.62
3) Overhead= (1*$3.27+4*$2.75)= $14.27
Ne cost of Job 316= Direct materials+Direct labor+Overhead
= $120+80+14.27= $214.27
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