Calculating Departmental Overhead Rates and Applying Overhead to Production
At the beginning of the year, Glaser Company estimated the following:
Assembly Department |
Testing Department |
Total |
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Overhead | $571,000 | $696,620 | $1,267,620 | ||||||
Direct labor hours | 49,500 | 43,065 | 92,565 | ||||||
Machine hours | 88,750 | 68,338 | 157,088 |
Glaser uses departmental overhead rates. In the assembly department, overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor hours. In the testing department, overhead is applied on the basis of machine hours. Actual data for the month of March are as follows:
Assembly Department |
Testing Department |
Total |
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Overhead | $74,230 | $90,561 | $164,791 | ||||||
Direct labor hours | 6,435 | 5,598 | 12,033 | ||||||
Machine hours | 11,538 | 8,884 | 20,422 |
Required:
1. Calculate the predetermined overhead rates for the assembly and testing departments. Round your answers to the nearest cent.
Assembly department overhead rate | $ per direct labor hour |
Testing department overhead rate | $ per machine hour |
2. Calculate the overhead applied to production in each department for the month of March. If required, round your answers to nearest whole value.
Assembly department | $ |
Testing department | $ |
3. By how much has each department's overhead been overapplied? Underapplied?
Assembly department | (underapplied,overapplied?) | $difference? |
Testing department | (underapplied, overapplied?) | $difference? |
1. Assembly department overhead rate = Estimated overhead / Estimated direct labor hours
= $571,000 / 49,500
= $11.54
Testing department overhead rate = Estimated overhead / Estimated machine hours
= $696,620 / 68,338
= $10.19
2. Assembly department = 6,435 direct labor hours * $11.54 per direct labor hour
= $74,260
Testing department = 8,884 machine hours * $10.19 per machine hour
= $90,528
3.
Assembly department | Overapplied | $30 ($74,230-$74,260) |
Testing department | Underapplied | $33 ($90,561-$90,528) |
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