Exam 2: Job-Order Costing: Calculating Unit Product Costs

The management of Plitt Corporation would like to investigate the possibility of basing its predetermined overhead rate on activity at capacity. The company's controller has provided an example to illustrate how this new system would work. In this example, the allocation base is machine-hours and the estimated amount of the allocation base for the upcoming year is 69,000 machine-hours. Capacity is 82,000 machine-hours and the actual level of activity for the year is assumed to be 72,400 machine-hours. All of the manufacturing overhead is fixed and both the estimated amount at the beginning of the year and the actual amount at the end of the year are assumed to be $4,130,340 per year. It is assumed that a number of jobs were worked on during the year, one of which was Job Q20L which required 470 machine-hours.If the company bases its predetermined overhead rate on the estimated amount of the allocation base for the upcoming year, then the predetermined overhead rate is closest to:

Levron Corporation uses a job-order costing system with a single plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. The company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on total fixed manufacturing overhead cost of $58,000, variable manufacturing overhead of $2.00 per machine-hour, and 20,000 machine-hours. The company has provided the following data concerning Job P978 which was recently completed: The predetermined overhead rate is closest to:

Dehner Corporation uses a job-order costing system with a single plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. The company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on the following data: Recently, Job P951 was completed with the following characteristics: The total job cost for Job P951 is closest to: (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

The management of Michaeli Corporation would like to investigate the possibility of basing its predetermined overhead rate on activity at capacity rather than on the estimated amount of activity for the year. The company's controller has provided an example to illustrate how this new system would work. Required:Determine the cost of unused capacity for the year if the predetermined overhead rate is based on activity at capacity.

Dunnings Woodworking Corporation produces fine cabinets. The company uses a job-order costing system in which its predetermined overhead rate is based on capacity. The capacity of the factory is determined by the capacity of its constraint, which is an automated router. Additional information is provided below for the most recent month: The predetermined overhead rate based on hours at capacity is closest to:

Johansen Corporation uses a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours to apply manufacturing overhead to jobs. The Corporation has provided the following estimated costs for the next year: Jameson estimates that 20,000 direct labor-hours will be worked during the year. The predetermined overhead rate per hour will be:

Feauto Manufacturing Corporation has a traditional costing system in which it applies manufacturing overhead to its products using a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours (DLHs). The company has two products, I63E and E76I, about which it has provided the following data: The company's estimated total manufacturing overhead for the year is $4,467,600 and the company's estimated total direct labor-hours for the year is 162,000. The company is considering using a form of activity-based costing to determine its unit product costs for external reports. Data for this proposed activity-based costing system appear below: The manufacturing overhead that would be applied to a unit of product I63E under the company's traditional costing system is closest to:

Spang Corporation uses a job-order costing system with a single plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. The company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on the following data: Recently, Job P505 was completed with the following characteristics: The amount of overhead applied to Job P505 is closest to: