Babcock Industries Uses Departmental Overhead Rates to Allocate Its Manufacturing

Essay

Babcock Industries uses departmental overhead rates to allocate its manufacturing overhead to jobs.The company has two departments: Assembly and Sanding.The Assembly Department uses a departmental overhead rate of $20 per machine hour,while the Sanding Department uses a departmental overhead rate of $15 per direct labour hour.Job 396 used the following direct labour hours and machine hours in the two departments:

The cost for direct labour is $25 per direct labour hour and the cost of the direct materials used by Job 396 is $1,200.
What was the total cost of Job 396 if Babcock Industries used the departmental overhead rates to allocate manufacturing overhead?