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Media Designs is a marketing firm that designs and prints customized marketing brochures...

Media Designs is a marketing firm that designs and prints customized marketing brochures. The design department designs the brochure and the printing department prints and binds it. Each department has separate overhead rates. The following estimates for the two departments were made for the calendar year 2010.

Design

Printing

Overhead

$800,000

$500,000

Direct labor cost

$3,250,000

$410,000

Direct materials cost

$8,500

$250,000

Direct labor hours

50,000

10,000

Media Designs uses a budgeted overhead rate to apply overhead to jobs. Direct labor hours are used to allocate overhead in the design department, and direct materials cost is used to allocate overhead in the printing department.

Required:

a. What are the overhead rates for the design and printing departments?

b. A summary of the Matsui job follows:

Design

Printing

Direct materials used

$3,000

$12,000

Direct labor costs

$46,200

$28,500

Direct labor hours

700

750

What are overhead costs for the Matsui job?

c. Actual operating results for 2010 are

Design

Printing

Overhead

$802,000

$490,000

Direct labor cost

$3,193,000

$451,500

Direct materials cost

$11,550

$230,000

Direct labor hours

51,500

10,500

Calculate the over/underapplied overhead for each department.

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