#5 Chapter 2

Mason Company has two manufacturing departments-Machining and Assembly. The company considers all of its manufacturing overhead costs to be fixed costs. It provided the following estimates at the beginning of the year as well as the following information with respect to Jobs A and B : Required: 1. If Mason Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with direct labor-houts as the allocation base, how much manufacturing overhead cost would be applied to Job A? Job B? 2. Assume that Mason Company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates. The Machining Department is allocated based on machine hours and the Assembly Department is allocated based on direct lobor-hours. How much manufacturing overhead cost would be applied to Job A? Job B? (For Requirement 2, round your intermediate calculations and final onswers to 2 decimal places.)