Premier Spectacles makes frames for eyeglasses. It has two main departments: Production and Assembly. The following data
Question:
Premier Spectacles makes frames for eyeglasses. It has two main departments: Production and Assembly. The following data pertains to its operations for the most recent year.
The manufacturing overhead budget for the most recent year was:
Manufacturing overhead is applied using budgeted rates on the basis of machine hours for Production and on the basis of direct labor cost for Assembly. Budgeted machine hours for the Production Department were 25,000; budgeted direct labor cost for Assembly was $500,000.
The following is a summary of the actual events for the year:
The ending work in process (all in Assembly) was $22,000, and the ending finished goods inventory was $95,000.
Required:
a. Compute the budgeted overhead rates.
b. Compute the machine hours actually used in the Production Department.
c. Compute the amount of factory overhead applied in the Assembly Department.
d. Compute the gross margin after disposing of under- or overapplied overhead. Premier’s policy is to write off the amount of under- or overapplied overhead direct to cost of goodssold.
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Managerial accounting
ISBN: 978-0471467854
1st edition
Authors: ramji balakrishnan, k. s i varamakrishnan, Geoffrey b. sprin