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Rockford Company has four departmental accounts: Building Maintenance, General Factory
During the year, both Machining and Assembly used 28,000 direct labor hours.
In determining application rates at the beginning of the year, cost allocations were made as follows, using the sequential distribution method:
Building Maintenance to: General Factory Overhead, 10%; Machining, 50%; Assembly, 40%.
General factory overhead was distributed according to direct labor hours.
Required:
Determine the under- or overapplied overhead for each production department. (Hint: First you must distribute the service department costs.)
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