216) Merati Corporation has two manufacturing departments—Forming and Assembly. The
company used the following data at the beginning of the year to calculate predetermined
overhead rates:
Estimated total machine-hours (MHs)
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead cost
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead cost
per MH
During the most recent month, the company started and completed two jobs—Job B and Job L.
There were no beginning inventories. Data concerning those two jobs follow:
Assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours
as the allocation base in both departments. The departmental predetermined overhead rate in the
Forming Department is closest to:
A) $5.60
B) $7.40
C) $1.80
D) $6.05
Estimated fixed manufacturing overhead
$
28,000
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead ($1.80
per MH × 5,000 MHs)
Estimated total manufacturing overhead cost (a)
$
37,000
Estimated total machine-hours (b)
5,000
MHs
Departmental predetermined overhead rate (a) ÷ (b)
$
7.40
per