Palladium Inc. produces a variety of household cleaning products. Palladium’s controller has developed standard costs for the following four overhead items: Overhead Item Total Fixed Cost Variable Rate per Direct Labor Hour Maintenance $ 86,000           $0.20                    Power   0.45                    Indirect labor 140,000           2.10                    Rent 35,000             Next year, Palladium expects production to require 90,000 direct labor hours. Required: 1. Prepare an overhead budget for the expected level of direct labor hours for the coming year.

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Vaughn Manufacturing has the following budgeted costs for the next year: Shop employees' wages and benefits Parts manager's salary and benefits Office employee's salary and benefits Other overhead Invoice cost of parts and materials Total budgeted costs Time Charges O. $42. O $47. O $54. O $44. $125000 25000 15000 $165000 Material Charges $ 50000 20000 55000 450000 $575000 The labor rate to be used next year assuming 7500 hours of repair time and a profit margin of $25 per labor hour is >

Packaging Solutions Corporation manufactures and sells a wide variety of packaging products. Performance reports are prepared monthly for each department. The planning budget and flexible budget for the Production Department are based on the following formulas, where qis the number of labor-hours worked in a month: Cost Formulas $16.60g $4, 200 + $1.60g $5,300 + $0.70g $1,700 + $0.30g $18,500 $2.90g $8, 300 $2,500 $13,100 + $0.80g Direct labor Indirect labor Utilities Supplies Equipment depreciation Factory rent Property taxes Factory adeinistration The Production Department planned to work 4,100 labor-hours in March; however, it actually worked 3,900 labor-hours during the month. Its actual costs incurred in March are listed below: Direct labor Indirect labor Utilities Supplies Equipnent depreciation Factory rent Property taxes Factory administration Actual Cost Incurred in March $ 66,380 $ 9,940 $ 8,560 $ 3,140 $ 29,810 $ 8,700 $2,500 $ 15,610 Required: 1. Prepare the Production…