The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $240,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted and actual data from the St. Falls plant for the past year are as follows.
Department A | Department B | ||||||
Budgeted department overhead | |||||||
(excludes plantwide overhead) | $ | 150,000 | $ | 600,000 | |||
Actual department overhead | 160,000 | 620,000 | |||||
Expected total activity: | |||||||
Direct labor hours | 35,000 | 15,000 | |||||
Machine-hours | 10,000 | 40,000 | |||||
Actual activity: | |||||||
Direct labor hours | 51,000 | 9,000 | |||||
Machine-hours | 10,500 | 42,000 | |||||
For the coming year, the accountants at St. Falls are in the process of helping the sales force create bids for several jobs. Projected data pertaining only to job no. 110 are as follows.
Direct materials | $ | 25,000 | |
Direct labor cost: | |||
Department A (2,200 hr) | 45,000 | ||
Department B (800 hr) | 10,000 | ||
Machine-hours projected: | |||
Department A | 200 | ||
Department B | 1,200 | ||
Units produced | 10,000 | ||
d. Using the allocation rates in part b, compute the under- or overapplied overhead for the St. Falls plant for the year.
Plantwide overhead rate (250000/(10000+40000)) | $ 5 |
Overhead rate - Department A (150000/10000) | $ 15 |
Overhead rate - Department B (600000/40000) | $ 15 |
Plantwide ((10500+42000)*5) | $ 262,500 |
Department A (10500*15) | $ 157,500 |
Department B (42000*15) | $ 630,000 |
Overhead Applied | $ 1,050,000 |
Less: Actual Overhead (240000+160000+620000) | $ 1,020,000 |
Overapplied | $ 30,000 |
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls,...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $240,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $240,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $240,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $240,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager's salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $240,000. Each department's overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $242,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager's salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $232000. Each department's overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted...
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The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager's salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $250,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $240,000. Each department's overhead consists primarily of depreciation and...
The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has
several plants. One plant, located in st. Falls, Minnesota, uses a
job order costing system for its batch production processes. The
st. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass.
Plant wide overhead, which includes the plants manager's salary,
accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted
at $200,000. During the past year, actual pantwide overhead was
$195,000. Each department's overhead consists primarily of
depreciation and other machine-related expenses, selected...
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