Question

The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager’s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $200,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $185,000. Each department’s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted and actual data from the St. Falls plant for the past year are as follows.

	Department A				Department B
Budgeted department overhead
(excludes plantwide overhead)	$	196,000			$	559,000
Actual department overhead		142,000				574,000
Expected total activity:
Direct labor hours		36,000				10,000
Machine-hours		14,000				43,000
Actual activity:
Direct labor hours		38,500				9,400
Machine-hours		14,500				45,000

For the coming year, the accountants at St. Falls are in the process of helping the sales force create bids for several jobs. Projected data pertaining only to job no. 110 are as follows.

Direct materials	$	16,500
Direct labor cost:
Department A (2,000 hr)		30,000
Department B (500 hr)		10,000
Machine-hours projected:
Department A		140
Department B		1,200
Units produced		10,000

Required:

a-1. Assume the St. Falls plant uses a single plantwide overhead rate to assign all overhead (plantwide and department) costs to jobs. Find the overhead rate by using expected direct labor hours.

a-2. Determine the projected amount of total manufacturing costs per unit for the units in job no. 110.

Answer 1