When Calculating the Total Amount of Manufacturing Overhead to Allocate

Multiple Choice

When calculating the total amount of manufacturing overhead to allocate to a particular job, the company would multiply each departmental overhead rate by ________ and then ________ together the allocated amounts from each department.

A) the actual amount of the departmental allocation based used by the job; multiply
B) the actual amount of the plantwide allocation based used by the job; add
C) the actual amount of the departmental allocation based used by the job; add
D) the actual amount of the plantwide allocation based used by the job; multiply