Managerial Accounting
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780077826482
Author: Stacey M Whitecotton Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Fred Phillips Associate Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 7.5GAP
To determine
Concept introduction:
Predetermined overhead allocation:
To indicate:
A company decides the overhead allocation basis
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The T-account showing the manufacturing overhead activity for Aliyah Corp. for 2018 is as follows:
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What is the actual manufacturing overhead?
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Is manufacturing overhead underallocated or overallocated? By how much?
Amberjack Company is trying to decide on an allocation base to use to assign manufacturing overhead to jobs. The company has always used direct labor hours to assign manufacturing overhead to products, but it is trying to decide whether it should use a different allocation base such as direct labor dollars or machine hours.
Actual and estimated data for manufacturing overhead, direct labor cost, direct labor hours, and machine hours for the most recent fiscal year are summarized here:
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Actual Value
Manufacturing overhead cost
$ 597,000
$ 658,000
Direct labor cost
$ 399,000
$ 453,000
Direct labor hours
16,800
hours
18,300
hours
Machine hours
7,800
hours
8,800
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Based on the company’s current allocation base (direct labor hours), compute the following:Predetermined overhead rate.
Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places.
Applied manufacturing overhead.
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