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Case (continued)
bid too high and lost the job. Too much overhead cost was assigned to
the job for the kind of work being done on the job in the plant.
On jobs that require a large amount of labor in the Fabricating or Ma–
chining Departments the opposite will be true, and the company will
tend to charge too little overhead cost to the jobs if a plantwide over-
head rate is being used. The reason is that the plantwide overhead rate
(140%) is much lower than the rates would be if these departments
were considered separately.
4. The company’s bid was:
Direct materials …………………………………….
Direct labor ………………………………………….
Manufacturing overhead applied (above) ……
Total manufacturing cost ………………………..
Bidding rate …………………………………………
Total bid price ………………………………………
Direct materials …………………………………….
Direct labor ………………………………………….
Manufacturing overhead applied (above) ……
Total manufacturing cost ………………………..
Bidding rate …………………………………………
Total bid price ………………………………………
Note that if departmental overhead rates had been used, Teledex Com-
pany would have been the low bidder on the Koopers job because the
competitor underbid Teledex by only $2,000.
Actual overhead cost …………………………………
Applied overhead cost ($580,000 × 140%) …….
Underapplied overhead cost ………………………..