In: Accounting
Fab Furniture has two manufacturing departments--Cutting and Finishing. It considers all of its manufacturing overhead costs to be fixed costs. The overhead estimates for the year and for one job (Order #75675) completed during the year are shown below.
Estimated Data | Cutting | Finishing | Total | |||
Manufacturing overhead costs | $ | 6,210,000 | $ | 6,750,000 | $ | 12,960,000 |
Direct labor-hours | 135,000 | 81,000 | 216,000 | |||
Machine-hours | 54,000 | 270,000 | 324,000 | |||
Order # 75675 | Cutting | Finishing | Total |
Direct labor-hours | 28 | 20 | 48 |
Machine-hours | 20 | 23 | 43 |
Required:
1. Calculate the predetermined overhead rate and the amount of manufacturing overhead applied to Order #75675 assuming Fab Furniture uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours.
2. Fab Furniture is considering using departmental predetermined overhead rates with direct labor-hours as the allocation base in Cutting and machine-hours as the allocation base in Finishing. Calculate the predetermined overhead rate for each department and the manufacturing overhead applied to Order #75675 using departmental rates.
(Round your intermediate calculation to 2 decimal places.)
3. Do you recommend that Fab Furniture use a plantwide overhead rate or departmental overhead rates? Why?