Babcock Industries Uses Departmental Overhead Rates to Allocate Its Manufacturing

Multiple Choice

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?

A) $1,375
B) $1,425
C) $1,500
D) $1,600
E) $1,630