In: Accounting
Kinga Corp. is a manufacturing firm which has two service
departments, Maintenance and Engineering, and two production
departments, Assembly and Painting. The Maintenance Department
costs of $50,000 are allocated on the basis of square feet. The
Engineering Department costs of $90,000 are allocated based on the
engineering hours. The costs of production departments, Assembly
and Painting, are $544,000 and $258,000, respectively.
Data on overhead costs, square feet and engineering hours, are as
follows:
Service Departments |
production Departments | |||
| Maintenance Department | Engineering Department | Assembly Department | Painting Department |
Overhead costs: | $50,000 | $90,000 | $544,000 | $258,000 |
square feet | 630 | 1,400 | 2,100 | 2,870 |
engineering hours | 286 | 52 | 1,118 | 1,144 |
Overhead rates are established for each of the production
departments. The Assembly Department allocates overhead based upon
assembly machine hours and the Painting Department allocates
overhead based upon units painted. The planned levels are 15,500
assembly machine hours and 18,000 units painted.
Allocate costs to the production departments using the reciprocal
method, then find the overhead rates for the Assembly and Painting
departments.