56) Stockmaster 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 C and Job H.
There were no beginning inventories. Data concerning those two jobs follow:
Assume that the company uses a plantwide predetermined manufacturing overhead rate based on
machine-hours and uses a markup of 40% on manufacturing cost to establish selling prices. The
calculated selling price for Job C is closest to:
A) $96,989
B) $88,172
C) $25,192
D) $62,980
Estimated fixed manufacturing overhead
$
27,000
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead ($1.10 per MH ×
5,000 MHs)
5,500
Estimated total manufacturing overhead cost
$
32,500
Estimated fixed manufacturing overhead
$
10,500
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead ($2.80 per MH ×
5,000 MHs)
14,000
Estimated total manufacturing overhead cost
$
24,500