Appleton Company is a job-order costing firm that uses activity-based costing to apply overhead to jobs. Appleton identified three overhead activities and related drivers. Budgeted information for the year is as follows:

By March 31, Jobs 15, 16, and 17 were completed and sold. The remaining jobs were in process.
Required:
1. Calculate the activity rates for each of the three overhead activities.
2. Prepare job-order cost sheets for each job showing all costs through March 31.
What is the cost of each job by the end of March?
3. Calculate the balance in Work in Process on March 31.
4. Calculate cost of goods sold for March.LO1

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Engineering hours Amount of Driver 6,000 Number of parts 10,000 Direct labor hours 50,000 Activity Cost Driver Engineering design $156,000 Purchasing 96,000 Other overhead 350,000 Appleton worked on five jobs in March. Data are as follows: Job 15 Job 16 Job 17 Job 18 Job 19 Balance, March 1 $34,500 $39,890 $24,090 $0 $0 Direct materials $28,000 $37,900 $25,350 $11,000 $13,560 Direct labor $10,000 $8,500 $23,000 $12,900 $8,000 Engineering hours 50 20 40 120 260 Number of parts 150 180 200 500 300 Direct labor hours 650 580 1,600 870 520