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A company has two divisions Assembly & Distribution . In the Assembly division small mechanical assemblies are manufactured in the two production departments to customer

A company has two divisions Assembly & Distribution . In the Assembly division small mechanical assemblies are manufactured in the two production departments to customer order. The following information is available for the two production departments for a period:

Arrangement Dept ($)

Maintenance Dept (4)

Budgeted production overhead

256,200

168,100

Budgeted machine hours 4200 820
Budgeted direct labour hours 8100 15500
Actual machine hours 4384 734
Actual direct labour hours 8296 15109

Job No 102 (order for 800 assemblies)

Materials issued ($)

16740 264

Machine hours ($)

293 40

Direct Labour hours ($)

440 726

Labour hourly rates are $8 in the Arrangement Department and $10 in the Maintenance Department.

Actual production overhead in Arrangement in the period comprised:

Indirect materials : $47,440

Indirect labour: $203,740

General expenses (on credit): $172,838

Payments to general expense creditors in the period totalled $169,763. Trial and testing of Job No 102 (order for 800 assemblies) amounted to $ 8,690.

Required:

Calculate the total production cost of Job No 102:

(a) If production overheads are absorbed on the basis of machine hours in the Arrangement Department and the direct labour hours in the Maintenance Department

(b) If production overheads are absorbed on a plant-wide direct labour hour basis

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