Question

High Desert Potteryworks makes a variety of pottery products that it sells to retailers such as Home Depot. The company uses a job-order costing system in which predetermined overhead rates are used to apply manufacturing overhead cost to jobs. The predetermined overhead rate in the Molding Department is based on machine-hours, and the rate in the Painting Department is based on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company's management made the following estimates:

	Department
	Molding	Painting
Direct labor-hours	33,500	58,600
Machine-hours	82,000	38,000
Direct materials cost	$193,000	$203,000
Direct labor cost	$280,000	$514,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead cost	$205,000	$580,140
Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$2.40	-
Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour	-	$4.40

   

Job 205 was started on August 1 and completed on August 10. The company's cost records show the following information concerning the job:

    

	Department
	Molding	Painting
Direct labor-hours	74	127
Machine-hours	380	71
Materials placed into production	$950	$1,180
Direct labor cost	$700	$950

   

Required:

1.	Compute the predetermined overhead rate used during the year in the Molding Department. Compute the rate used in the Painting Department. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
	Predetermined overhead rate Molding Department per MH Painting Department per DLH

         

2.	Compute the total overhead cost applied to Job 205. (Round "Predetermined overhead rate" to 2 decimal places, other intermediate calculations and final answers to the nearest dollar amount.)

	Total overhead cost

         

3-a.	What would be the total cost recorded for Job 205? (Round "Predetermined overhead rate" to 2 decimal places, other intermediate calculations and final answers to the nearest dollar amount.)
	Department Molding Painting Total Direct materials $0 Direct labor 0 Manufacturing overhead 0 Total cost $0 $0 $0

         

3-b.	If the job contained 34 units, what would be the unit product cost? (Round "Predetermined overhead rate" and final answer to 2 decimal places and other intermediate calculations to the nearest dollar amount.)
	Unit product cost per unit

         

4.	At the end of the year, the records of High Desert Potteryworks revealed the following actual cost and operating data for all jobs worked on during the year:

  

	Department
	Molding	Painting
Direct labor-hours	29,000	58,000
Machine-hours	81,700	23,500
Direct materials cost	$162,900	$424,000
Direct labor cost	$108,000	$436,000
Manufacturing overhead cost	$411,230	$792,300

	What was the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead in each department at the end of the year? (Round "Predetermined overhead rate" to 2 decimal places, other intermediate calculations and final answers to the nearest dollar amount. Select "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)

	Molding Department Painting Department

         

	Molding Department Painting Department

Answer 1

1)	Predetermined overhead rate
	Molding Department = (205000/82000)+2.40 =	$            4.90	per MH
	Painting Department = (580140/58600)+4.40 =	$          14.30	per DLH
2)	Total overhead cost applied to Job 205 = 380*4.9+127*14.30 =	$ 3,678
3-a.	Total cost recorded for Job 205:
		Department
		Molding	Painting	Total
	Direct materials	950	1180	2130
	Direct labor	700	950	1650
	Manufacturing overhead	1862	1816	3678
	Total cost	$3,512	$3,946	$7,458
3-b)	Unit product cost = 7458/34 =	$ 219
4)		Molding	Painting
	Overhead applied:
	81700*4.90 =	400330
	58000*14.30 =		829400
	Actual overhead	411230	792300
	Underapplied overhead	10900
	Overapplied overhead		37100
	Molding Department	10900	Underapplied
	Painting Department	37100	Overapplied