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Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments--Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March—Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March): Molding Fabrication Total Estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 Job P Job Q Direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 Direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 Actual machine-hours used: Molding 1,700 800 Fabrication 600 900 Total 2,300 1,700 Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.
Required: For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.
2. How much manufacturing overhead was applied to Job P and how much was applied to Job Q? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)
| Job P | Job Q | Total $ | |
| Direct Material $ | 13000 | 8000 | 21000 | 
| Direct Labour $ | 21000 | 7500 | 28500 | 
| Actual Machine Hours used | |||
| Plant wide predetermined mfg. Overhead | |||
| Moulding | 1700 | 800 | 2500 | 
| Fabrication | 600 | 900 | 1500 | 
| Total Hours | 2300 | 1700 | 4000 | 
| Plant wide pre determined(2300*7.95)&(1700*7.95) | 18285 | 13515 | 31800 | 
| Since per hour plantwide overhead is $ 7.95 | |||
| Deparmental wide predetermined | Job P | Job Q | Total $ | 
| Moulding(13500*1700/2500) & (13500*800/2500) | 9180 | 4320 | 13500 | 
| Fabrication(18300*600/1500)&(18300*900/1500) | 7320 | 10980 | 18300 | 
| 16500 | 15300 | 31800 | 
workig:
| Company as Whole | Molding | Fabrication | Total | 
| Est. total machine Hours | 2500 | 1500 | 4000 | 
| Fixed Mfg. OH $ | 10000 | 15000 | 25000 | 
| Est. Variable Mfg. OH per Machine Hours $ | 1.4 | 2.2 | |
| Est. Variable Mfg. OH $ | 3500 | 3300 | 6800 | 
| 13500 | 18300 | 31800 | |
| Per hour OH $ | 5.4 | 12.2 | 7.95 |