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.

5. What was the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job Q? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Answer 1

Explanations are provided for calculating predetermined overhead rate. Answer is at the end of every explanation.