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The MoonStar Corporation uses a “predetermined overhead rate” to apply manufacturing overhead costs the each department. For the Department A, the company uses “labor cost” as allocation base and for the Department B, uses “machine-hours” as allocation base.
At the beginning of the year, the Corporation made the following estimates:
Dept. A | Dept. B | |
Direct labor cost | $60,000 | $40,000 |
Manufacturing overhead | $90,000 | $45,000 |
Direct labor-hours | 6,000 | 9,000 |
Machine-hours | 2,000 | 15,000 |
Question: Please compute the “predetermined overhead rates” for Dept. A and for Dept. B