In: Accounting
Calculating Manufacturing Overhead Rates
Windsor Company, accumulated the following data for 2017:
Milling Department manufacturing overhead | $187,200 |
Finishing Department manufacturing overhead | $76,800 |
Machine hours used | |
Milling Department | 9,000 hours |
Finishing Department | 2,000 hours |
Labor hours used | |
Milling Department | 1,000 hours |
Finishing Department | 1,000 hours |
Required
a. Calculate the plantwide manufacturing overhead rate using
machine hours as the allocation base.
$Answer
per machine hour
b. Calculate the plantwide manufacturing overhead rate using direct
labor hours as the allocation base.
$Answer per direct labor hour
c. Calculate department overhead rates using machine hours in
Milling and direct labor hours in Finishing as the allocation
bases.
$Answer per Milling Dept. machine hour
$Answer per Finishing Dept. direct labor hour
d. Calculate department overhead rates using direct labor hours in
Milling and machine hours in Finishing as the allocation
bases.
$Answer per Milling Dept. direct labor hour
$Answer per Finishing Dept. machine hour