High Desert Potteryworks makes a variety of pottery products that it sells to retailers. The company’s job-order costing system uses departmental predetermined overhead rates to apply manufacturing overhead costs 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 provided the following estimates:   Department Molding Painting Direct labor-hours 36,500 56,600 Machine-hours 82,000 37,000 Fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 213,200 $ 515,060 Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.80 0 Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor hour 0 $ 4.80 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 84 128 Machine-hours 360 67 Direct materials $ 948 $ 1,160 Direct labor cost $ 720 $ 990 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rates used in the Molding Department and the Painting Department. 2. Compute the total overhead cost applied to Job 205. 3-a. What would be the total manufacturing cost recorded for Job 205? 3-b. If the job contained 34 units, what would be its unit product cost?

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High Desert Potteryworks makes a variety of pottery products that it sells to retailers. The company’s job-order costing system uses departmental predetermined overhead rates to apply manufacturing overhead costs 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 provided the following estimates:

  Department
Molding Painting
Direct labor-hours 36,500 56,600
Machine-hours 82,000 37,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 213,200 $ 515,060
Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.80 0
Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor hour 0 $ 4.80

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 84 128
Machine-hours 360 67
Direct materials $ 948 $ 1,160
Direct labor cost $ 720 $ 990

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rates used in the Molding Department and the Painting Department.

2. Compute the total overhead cost applied to Job 205.

3-a. What would be the total manufacturing cost recorded for Job 205?

3-b. If the job contained 34 units, what would be its unit product cost?

 

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