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	$	14,750		$	17,850		$	32,600
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$	3.30		$	4.10

	Job P			Job Q
Direct materials	$	32,000		$	17,500
Direct labor cost	$	36,200		$	15,100
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding		3,600			2,700
Fabrication		2,500			2,800
Total		6,100			5,500

Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

Required:

For questions 1-9, assume that Sweeten Company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments and Job P included 20 units and Job Q included 30 units. For questions 10-15, assume that the company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base.

1. What were the company’s predetermined overhead rates in the Molding Department and the Fabrication Department? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Answer 1

1) Molding overhead rate = 14750/2500+3.3 = 9.20 per MH

Fabrication overhead rate = 17850/1500+4.1 = 16 per MH